- “‘Scientific And Public Health Failure’: Fauci Admits Covid Shots Didn’t Have A Chance Of Controlling The Pandemic” – Dr. Anthony Fauci has admitted in a research paper that COVID-19 vaccines couldn’t have reasonably been expected to get the coronavirus pandemic under control, according to the Daily Caller.
- “Inside the Secret Government Meeting on COVID-19 Natural Immunity” – Four of the highest-ranking U.S. health officials — including Dr. Anthony Fauci — met in secret to discuss whether or not naturally immune people should be exempt from getting COVID-19 vaccines, reports the Epoch Times.
- “Covid drug drives viral mutations — and now some want to halt its use” – Nature reports on analysis that reveals the signature of the antiviral drug molnupiravir in SARS-CoV-2 sequences riddled with mutations.
- “The BBC tries to explain why Japan’s Covid ‘success’ turned to failure” – Guy Gin examines the mental gymnastics at the BBC as they scrabble to explain Japan’s fall from Covid grace.
- “Kyoto university professor sues Japan’s health ministry over Covid vaccine” – El Gato Malo on Professor Fukushima’s accusations against the Health Ministry of fraud.
- “Why can’t we ban cashless shops?” – The Government and Bank of England seem to have finally woken up to one of the many glaring problems with trying to achieve a cashless society, writes Ross Clark in the Spectator. The Swiss are set to have a referendum on the issue.
- “Why are excess deaths not an issue any more?” – Tom Lennie in TCW on the double standards applied to pandemic excess deaths (a public health emergency) and post-pandemic ones (nothing to see here).
- “Doctors Without Ethical Borders” – Thomas Buckley on why it’s essential that the first duty of medics is to do no harm.
- “The Models Are Okay, the Predictions Are Wrong” – Dr. Jordan B. Peterson and Dr. Judith Curry discuss climate change, the major error in current models and future predictions, academic fraud and the need for dissenting opinions on WUWT.
- “Net Zero is the NHS’s latest excuse to skip work” – Charles Moore in the Telegraph is suspicious that becoming a greener NHS seems to involve doing less and seeing fewer patients.
- “Ethical fund managers are hypocrites who take money from authoritarian regimes” – Profit-seeking companies have a ‘trillion-dollar blindspot’ when it comes to who their clients are, says Ben Wright in the Telegraph.
- “U.S. school apologises for ‘inexcusably insensitive’ Black History Month lunch” – The lunch included fried chicken and watermelon, which have long been used as racist tropes, apparently – according to the BBC.
- “Wales follows Scotland into clash with U.K. Government over trans rights” – The Welsh Labour administration has launched an ‘LGBTQ+ Action Plan’ that seeks to “trigger” negotiations about taking on the role in overseeing how people change their gender, reports the Mail. They must have noticed how well it’s gone for Sturgeon.
- “Mother admits she regrets letting her son, four, transition to a girl identity and describes realising her mistake was like ‘leaving a cult’ after she had previously spent years being a ‘true believer’ in transgender ideology” – When her four year-old son said he felt like a girl, the mother encouraged him in his new identity – which she has now admitted was a “mistake” that “haunts” her, reports the Mail.
- “Dr. John Money and the sinister origins of gender ideology” – Lauren Smith in Spiked on how a cruel, amoral experiment helped birth today’s trans movement.
- “No, Harry Styles wasn’t insulting Beyoncé – Americans are race-obsessed fools” – Ella Whelan in the Telegraph defends Styles against the woke backlash to his comment at the Grammys that “this doesn’t happen to people like me very often”.
- “Heard the one about the ‘woke’ AI chatbot who refused to tell a joke about women?” – The Telegraph discovers that ChatGPT says praising Donald Trump is “inappropriate” and advocating fossil fuels “against my programming”.
- “The mainstream media have given up on truth” – Jenny Holland in Spiked finds that the Washington Post is openly calling on news outlets to abandon objectivity.
- “Globe puts ‘misogyny and racism’ warning on Shakespeare classic” – Historic theatre the Globe has given one of Shakespeare’s best known plays, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a “misogyny and racism” warning on its website, the Mail reports.
- “It’s about time we got real with how we do energy in the U.K.” – Watch Alex Phillips of Reform U.K. on the BBC’s Politics Live delivering some home truths about Net Zero.
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