The Scottish Government has said its Covid powers – including mask mandates and vaccine passports – are to be extended for a further six months. Was it inspired by Boris announcing the lifting of restrictions in England?
More rain, more flooding, more 'extreme weather' – more of the fact-free fairytales fed to Boris Johnson at his January 2020 briefing to bring him on-side with the Blob's Net Zero agenda.
A study in Nature into heart problems after Covid finds they are much worse in the vaccinated – but this important finding is hidden in the appendix.
Boris Johnson announced today that all remaining Covid restrictions, including the legal requirement to isolate, will be scrapped this month, saying he expects to end the remaining restrictions a "full month early".
We're publishing a review of Dr. Semmelweiss on the Daily Sceptic by the financial journalist Edward Chancellor. It's about a doctor who made a lifesaving medical discovery but was disbelieved by the medical establishment.
The ONS claims the strange spikes in deaths around the time of the vaccine rollout are due to a 'healthy vaccinee effect', but new analysis shows that is contradicted by the ONS's own data.
by Edward Chancellor The actor Mark Rylance is currently performing in the title role of an interesting new play at the Bristol Old Vic. Based on an original idea of Rylance’s and scripted by Stephen Brown, Dr. Semmelweiss relates the true story of a physician who, while working at the Vienna General Hospital in the mid-19th century, discovered a simple procedure that dramatically reduced the death rate for patients in his care. Semmelweiss observed that maternity wards overseen by doctors experienced many more deaths than those attended only by midwives. He attributed the difference to the fact that medics went straight from performing autopsies on dead women to delivering babies, whereas midwives were kept out of the dissecting chamber. Semmelweiss concluded that the doctors must be infecting their patients with what he called “cadaveric particles”, and recommended that they wash their hands in chlorinated water before entering the wards. After this recommendation was put into practice, the death rate from childbed fever (puerperal sepsis) collapsed. Despite Semmelweiss’ brilliant discovery, the Viennese medical establishment refused to accept his ideas and the wretched doctor, driven mad by his failure to prevent unnecessary deaths, ends up in a lunatic asylum. His failure owes something to his personality: in the play he is portrayed as excitable, self-absorbed, intolerant, sanctimonious and, at times, cruel in his obsessive ...
A summary of all the most interesting stories that have appeared about politicians’ efforts to control the virus – and other acts of hubris and folly – not just in Britain, but around the world.
