The vaccination of children as young as 12 is likely to be approved by Australian health authorities on Friday despite ongoing debates on the safety of extending national vaccine roll-outs to the youngest in society.
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Today the Daily Sceptic is publishing an original piece by Mike Hearn looking at fraud and other problems besetting scientific research. What he has to say about the prevalence of scientific fraud in China is hair-raising.
by Mike Hearn It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgement of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of the New England Journal of Medicine.Marcia Angell Check out this image from a peer reviewed research paper that supposedly shows skin lesions being treated by a laser: Left: before treatment for keratoses. Right: after they were airbrushed out. (image diff is available here) On being challenged the authors said: The photograph was taken in the same room with a similar environment; unfortunately the patient wore the same shirt. The journal found this explanation acceptable and forwarded the response to the complainants. It’s becoming clear that science has major difficulties with not only a flood of incorrect and intellectually fraudulent claims, but also literally faked, entirely made up papers with random data, imaginary experiments and photoshopped images in them. Some of these papers are sold by organised gangs to Chinese doctors who need them to get promoted. But others come from really sketchy outfits like (sigh) the National Health Service, to whom we owe the masterpiece seen above. The British Government hasn’t noticed that its doctors are massaging ...
The NHS estimates 66% of people aged 18-29 in England have received a vaccine. But PHE says the same figure is 59%. This is a difference of over 600,000 people. Don't they know?
A new Government ad campaign ignores the passing of "Freedom Day" and instructs Brits to carry on wearing face masks and to use the NHS Covid app so as to "keep life moving".
More than nine in 10 Brits would test positive for antibodies against Covid, according to the latest ONS data. But that hasn't stopped the NHS app 'pinging' a record 620,000 people in England and Wales in just one week.
The ability of the police to deal with crime is being stunted by the "pingdemic", with officials saying that response times are "under strain" due to staff shortages caused by self-isolation rules.
A summary of all the most interesting stories that have appeared about the virus in the past 24 hours – not just in Britain, but around the world.
Can the Government back up its fear-inducing claims, and explain why it is stating that the SAR of Covid is more than three times the figure published in its own data?
