Is The BMJ biased?
Ad Fontes Media places The BMJ in the centre. We have seen it on 1 published story of ours.
The short answers
Is The BMJ biased?
Ad Fontes Media places The BMJ in the centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is The BMJ left or right?
Ad Fontes Media places The BMJ in the centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is The BMJ reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for The BMJ are Ad Fontes Media: Very high factuality; Media Bias/Fact Check: Very high factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What The BMJ has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with The BMJ’s own report linked underneath.
A UK-led trial of a tetanus-diphtheria vaccine that does not require refrigeration has reported 100% protective antibody levels in all participants. The vaccine, SPVX02, remained stable at 30°C for at least two years, addressing cold-chain failures that waste millions of doses annually.
The BMJ reported it as“Fridge-free” vaccine for tetanus-diphtheria shows promise in first human trial (opens The BMJ in a new tab)
Who says so
One organisation has published a rating for this outlet. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
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How reliably it reports fact
A rating of the newsroom in general, by others, and a different thing from the Trust score we publish on each story, which judges one piece of reporting.
Very high factuality
Who owns it
We hold no ownership record for The BMJ.
Where it publishes from
What we have seen ourselves
Counted across the stories this site has published, which is the only denominator a reader can check: every one of them has a page, and every page lists the reports it was written from.
- Stories
- 1
- Reports listed
- 1
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
1 of those reports was paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 0 we could open, not on everything it published.
A blindspot is measured against one side of the spectrum. The BMJ is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
On the one story of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of The BMJ: its report arrived a median of 2 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 7 August 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 8 August 2026. Ratings pulled 7 August 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as The BMJ, also publishing from United Kingdom, ordered by how often we have seen them on a story. Sharing a rating is not the same as being alike.
Every rating on this page is a named third party’s published work, republished with its author and, where one exists, a link to it. Our own coverage record is the section we measure ourselves. Neither is a judgement of any individual report: those are scored story by story, and the reasoning is on our methodology page.