Hello and welcome to more or less your weekly lap around the numbers in the news and

in life. This is the last in the series, so we're going out with a bang. There's a much

raunted new treatment for Alzheimer's disease, but what evidence do we really have that it

will change lives? YouTube is full of claims about the dangers of vaccines. We look at

one that's so astonishingly wrong, you can see the error from 1850. Oh, and our loyal

listeners are curious about my park run times. We'll keep a steady pace before sprinting

to the finish, but for now, ready, set, go.

On Monday, the Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded to Cataline Carrico and Drew Weissmann

for their work which led to the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.

As one member of the Nobel Assembly put it, together they've saved millions of lives,

prevented severe COVID-19, reduced the overall disease burden and enabled societies to open

up again. But in corners of the internet, other views of the COVID vaccines are available.

Loyal listeners have been in touch. Here's one of them, Crawford Mackie.

I used to watching Dr. John Campbell on YouTube and especially during the pandemic when he

seemed to always be a sane and reasonable scientist and he puts out videos from a modest

dwelling in Carlisle. He produced one which suggested that overall statistics were showing

that for all age groups, there had been more excess deaths in vaccinated people than

in the unvaccinated. I'm not a good enough mathematician to follow how the data he quotes

are showing that, but I wondered if more or less could help with the reasoning.

To help with this story, we have the once-in-a-series appearance by our editor Richard Vardin.

Hello Tim. So tell us about this sane and reasonable scientist, Dr. John Campbell.

Well first things first, he's not a scientist and he's not a medical doctor. He has a background

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