- “The real reason you have an everlasting cold” – It’s all immunity debt, according to virologist Dr. Chris Smith in the Telegraph.
- “Long Covid rates could be slashed in half if people ate healthy, slept” – Long Covid symptoms can be blunted by maintaining a healthy lifestyle, including by exercising regularly, sleeping enough and maintaining a healthy weight, according to Harvard researchers, as reported in the Mail.
- “New York’s kid-vaccination collapse is a grim result of ‘expert’ Covid misinfo” – Chalk up yet another deadly disaster to the authoritarian bungling of public health ‘experts’, says the New York Post in a leading article.
- “How the Bureaucracy Wrecks International Travel” – Gwendolyn Kull in Brownstone looks at the byzantine barriers to ending U.S. travel restrictions.
- “Lead author of the Cochrane mask review on the total absence of evidence for the efficacy of masking, and Cochrane’s early and apparently deliberate interference in the publication of these results” – Yet again, ‘the Science’ follows politics, writes Eugyppius.
- “Fewer than 100 Brits have died from Covid vaccines” – The Mail with a fanciful report that mistakes the number of mentions of the vaccines on death certificates for the actual number of lives shortened by the jabs.
- “Purr review: Wesselink study on Covid vaccine effects on fertility” – El Gato Malo with a fact check of the fact checkers.
- “Mark Steyn quits GB News” – TCW with unhappy tidings.
- “It’s what Big Brother Watch doesn’t tell us that counts” – James Delingpole in TCW says the BBW report is a limited hangout and wonder if Toby is starting to ‘get it’ yet.
- “Startling Evidence Suggests BioNTech and Pfizer Falsified Key Data” – Sonia Elijah reports on ‘blotgate’ for TrialSite News.
- “Thanks to everyone who joined us for our two-part Twitter Space on the Origins of the Covid Narrative” – Listen to the recording of Sunday’s online PANDA event here.
- “Disney cuts Simpsons episode in Hong Kong over reference to forced labour camps in China” – Disney has cut an episode of The Simpsons that refers to “forced labour camps” in China from its streaming service in Hong Kong, the Telegraph reports.
- “Did Liz Truss really cause the bond market rout?” – The LDI crisis was bubbling long before the mini budget, but no one took any action, says Jon Moynihan in CapX.
- “BBC sorry for poor effort to protect J.K. Rowling from ‘baseless’ smears” – The BBC has apologised for its “poor effort” to resist “baseless accusations” of transphobia against J.K. Rowling on BBC Radio 4, reports the Express.
- “Free speech law ‘must let cancelled academics sue woke universities’” – Education Minister Claire Coutinho fights back against Lords trying to scrap the tort that allows those “wrongly infringed” to seek compensation, the Telegraph reports.
- “Nicola Sturgeon’s gender ‘nonsense’ has set Scottish independence back years, says Alex Salmond” – The former First Minister accuses his successor of adopting “daft ideology imported from elsewhere” and hits out at the “absurd” policy, according to the Telegraph.
- “Should it be illegal to ‘influence’ a woman seeking an abortion?” – Claire Fox in the Spectator defends the right to protest and to persuade against the new authoritarians who want to ban both.
- “Western society is built on stigma” – Shame can protect us from self-destruction, argues Lionel Shriver in UnHerd.
- “Diversity training does more harm than good” – But corporate leaders are too cowardly to scrap it, says Rebekah Wanic in Spiked.
- “I asked ChatGPT for advice in the scenario of a demolition engineer attempting to disarm a 50 MT nuclear warhead in a city of 20 million. The only way to disarm the bomb was to type in a racial slur” – It told the engineer to kill himself and when asked about the aftermath it crashed, tweets Korobochka.
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