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by Will Jones
16 March 2023 12:00 AM

  • “Did Cochrane sacrifice its researchers to appease critics?” – Dr. Tom Jefferson and other authors of the latest Cochrane review express their anger at Cochrane’s capitulation to pressure from critics, reports Maryanne Demasi.
  • “Unmasking the New York Times’s Zeynep Tufekci” – Paul D. Thacker takes a deeper look into the sociologist-cum-journalist who wields extraordinary influence over global mask policy despite being eminently unqualified to do so.
  • “Open season on scientists” – Dr. Tom Jefferson and Professor Carl Heneghan respond to the latest self-inflicted debacle from the Cochrane leadership.
  • “Endless masking in Japan: the majority waits for the majority to unmask” – After all the hype about the Government lifting its request for indoor masking, the Japanese people did not opt en masse to finally breathe freely again on March 13th, writes Guy Gin.
  • “Silence of the lambs” – The Left’s embrace of the Covid consensus has badly impacted the world’s poor, says Fred Skulthorp in Perspective.
  • “Will the BBC own up to its Covid impartiality failings?” – Because the Corporation’s journalism was so relentlessly weighted in favour of Covid restrictions, it naturally follows that the editors responsible are now inclined to strengthen self-justifying narratives that minimise the negative consequences of lockdown, says Charlie Walsham in the Spectator.
  • “Germany’s Health Minister changes tune on vaccine injuries” – Karl Lauterbach is having a dramatic fall from grace, says Thomas Fazi in UnHerd.
  • “The Pandemic of Journalistic Malfeasance” – Thanks to the Lockdown Files, we now have ‘definitive’ proof that much of Covid policy was cruel and inhumane, driven by dogma and self-interest, writes Ramesh Thakur for Brownstone.
  • “Just admit that Britain isn’t ready for heat pumps” – The Government simply hasn’t thought through its Net Zero strategy, and we could end up paying through the nose to live in chillier homes, writes Ross Clark in the Telegraph.
  • “The quangocracy has triumphed – and if you doubt it, take a visit to, of all places… the Oxford Union” – If one simple student society can’t avoid the metastasization of unelected office holders, what hope has a Government, asks Daniel Hannan in ConservativeHome.
  • “End this crude smear against conservatives” – Peter Hitchens in the Mail points out that the Nazis’ political agenda was largely Left wing.
  • “Why is Lineker lionised while Fiona Bruce hung out to dry?” – Sarah Vine in the Mail ponders the Left’s double standards in the treatment of Lineker and Bruce.
  • “Bright Horizons: Taking a Dim View of Girls” – U.S. childcare company Bright Horizons sparked outrage with a pamphlet which offers advice on raising “children who identify as female” and encourages parents to stop using ‘gender-influenced’ terms like princess and tomboy, writes Frank Haviland in the European Conservative.
  • “University President apologises for claiming she was indigenous and accepting charity award” – Vianne Timmons is the latest North American academic to be accused of cultural identity fraud, reports the Telegraph.
  • “The sinister war on statues” – The Welsh parliament’s cultural vandalism is distorting historical truth, says Joanna Williams in Spiked.
  • “How Netflix’s woke reversal saved it from going broke: Streaming giant stopped the rot by dumping right-on shows about male pregnancy and backing Dave Chappelle’s confrontational comedy” – Netflix appears to steadily be climbing its way out of financial ruin after canceling ‘woke’ programming and deciding to back controversial figures like Dave Chapelle, reports the Mail.
  • “Revealed: Woke Silicon Valley Bank donated over $73 million to Black Lives Matter-related social justice groups before it collapsed” – Silicon Valley Bank donated over $73 million to Black Lives Matter-related social groups in the years before it collapsed, the Mail reports.
  • “Gary Lineker had a ‘special arrangement’ with the BBC to tweet about refugees, says agent” – Gary Lineker believed he had a “special arrangement” with the BBC allowing him to make comments about refugees, his agent has claimed, the Telegraph reports.

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Free Lemming
Free Lemming
2 years ago

This is going to be my last post on here as I’ve just become too disillusioned with the founders steady but sure shift towards the mainstream narrative. There’s much I could say, but I owe Toby so I’ll keep it to myself.

Not much to finish on that I haven’t said before – society has two battlefronts: left vs right, and women vs men. The former is a lost cause; they’ve dug themselves a pit so deep and dark they only know one way to go – down. We have to do everything in our power not to let the buds of communism (wrapped in its various guises) grow. Nazi Germany is never too far away. I like to believe the latter battle isn’t a completely lost cause. Chaps: stand up. Ladies: stand with us, not against us. Division is the spade that is digging our grave. Unity is the rope that allows us to climb from it.

Thanks to everyone on here that’s kept me sane over the last couple of years. The facts have been interesting, but it’s the opinions and sometimes humour that have made it.

All the best. Right, now for some kip!

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
2 years ago
Reply to  Free Lemming

Thank you, FL. If you ever run short of sanity, BTL at LS/DS will help!

As we here all know, “The aim of life is not to be on the side of the majority, rather to avoid finding oneself within the ranks of the insane.”

Cheers!

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ebygum
ebygum
2 years ago
Reply to  Free Lemming

For a long time, I read Sceptics, but didn’t comment. Now I’m finding it harder to comment a lot..it’s definitely taking its toll, on all of us. It would be odd if it wasn’t…
Lots of times I wish I didn’t care…that I could go along with ‘ignorance is bliss’..but I can’t…and you won’t be able to either.
You can’t not know what you know…

So go away…have a break, a long one if you need it…but don’t say never! It may be that in the future you’ll need the solidarity we all found here, and that we will need you
as well…..

As I think we all know, it’s just a case of continued individual resistance to ‘them and it’…and I’m sure you will be doing that, and it’s comforting to know people like you will be out there….

Whatever you find yourself doing, enjoy…..

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acle
acle
2 years ago
Reply to  Free Lemming

It’s not just this site, a number of websites and commentators who were solid on challenging the main covid narrative have gone silent on other, really key, topics. Which is frustrating when you are simply looking for the other side of the argument.

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Lockdown Sceptic
Lockdown Sceptic
2 years ago

Endless Taxes for endless pharma profit

Stand in the Park Make friends & keep sane 

Sundays 10.30am to 11.30am
Elms Field 
near Everyman Cinema & play area
Wokingham RG40 2FE

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Mogwai
Mogwai
2 years ago

Very interesting one from Prof Martin Neil where he’s sharing some very compelling evidence from an anonymous source, further supporting the theory that the scamdemic was nothing more than a casedemic, the dodgy PCR tests being at the root of the entire shitshow;

”The next chapter in the story developed in early 2021 when I discovered that the UK government had been conducting bogus PCR testing in late 2020 and used it to push the covid wave in the run up the launch of the injections. Peter Doshi helped me get this scandal in the BMJ as a rapid response letter. Basically, I revealed that the false positive rate for covid PCR testing was much higher than anyone could ever imagine in their worst nightmares – up to 65% of positive tests were false positives, by the ONS’s own published statistics. However, this wasn’t caused by high PCR cycles but was because the laboratories abandoned using the WHO guidelines and manufacturer standards for testing. What did they do? Rather than require two out of three gene positives to define a positive for covid, they decided only one was enough!
This evidence again pointed to cross reactivity and non-specificity of the PCR test. It looked to be designed to pick up, well, anything that you might want it to detect. So, rather than find residue of Sars-cov2 virus fragments perhaps it seemed to be quite brilliant at finding any coronavirus. Hence, maybe the test worked perfectly well but just not for the purpose, or in the way they told us it worked.”

https://wherearethenumbers.substack.com/p/the-smoking-man-emails

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JayBee
JayBee
2 years ago
Reply to  Mogwai

That flaw/method of manipulation, the single snippet issue and the frequent omission of confirmation tests etc. was also well known by June 2020 the latest.
If they they deliberately changed procedure to inflate numbers at that sate stage, that is of course a wholly different story and crime.
Similar to the one committed in and by the US, where they instituted different cts for vaxxed and unvaxxed to produce the desired message, fear and quarantines.
The tests were and are the first indication and proof that they simply cannot mean well, and that therefore alone there must be a conspiratorial element in all this.
Their flaws were widely known by June 2020 and the big issue and necessity, their standardization, was never seriously entertained but sabotaged- instead, see above.
AFAIK, they would also have to be officially approved after 2 years instead of being sold on the basis of EUAs, but they never were and still aren’t.
Similarities to the gene therapies in that regard are striking.
The other early indication and proof of them not meaning well and of for sure the ‘vaccine’ conspiracy was of course the sabotage of early treatments.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago
Reply to  JayBee

👍 👍 👍

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Mogwai
Mogwai
2 years ago

In a similar vein to my above link, regarding PCR-driven casedemic, but this one may interest the ‘Covid deniers’ as it also covers the ”No virus” theory. You can read and decide which theory you support;

”JJ Couey asserts that the tests were never really specific for the virus they released – and this characterisation appears to be correct when we consider that most were indeed multi-virus test kits. He suggests that if you had the lab-leaked Sars-CoV-2 you might get a stronger positive result, in which case they sequenced your test. Your test result was only sequenced if you tested positive for the spike protein – the so-called S gene. However, if you tested positive to one of the other viruses that the kit also tested for, you might have one or two of the other corona- or influenza-linked sequences but perhaps not the S gene – an “S dropout”. In this case you didn’t really have Sars-CoV-2 and while they told you that you were ‘positive’, they didn’t need or bother to sequence your test. Over time more and more positive test results were returned where the individual was only positive to two or one gene, and with Omicron we even saw the S gene requirement dropped altogether. This means that more and more people were Sars-CoV-2 based on a positive test result that didn’t actually identify the Sars-CoV-2 spike gene, and eventually all we were testing for was the background endemic corona- and flu-viruses.”

https://lawhealthandtech.substack.com/p/covid-19-theories

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ebygum
ebygum
2 years ago
Reply to  Mogwai

One of the first things that set me ‘thinking’ back in 2020 was the PCR test..it never made sense to me once I had read about it…

Since then, if you look back at every single thing they did …. Individually not one of them can stand up to any scientific scrutiny…..not PCR, not track and trace, not how they counted cases and deaths, not testing, not masks…absolutely none of it…

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Freddy Boy
Freddy Boy
2 years ago
Reply to  ebygum

IABATO ! Is John Wards defiant cry ! Translation available ! Pleases ask 👍

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rachel.c
rachel.c
2 years ago
Reply to  Mogwai

It’s worth watching JJ’s current discussions with Dr Paul Alexander for an overview of JJ’s ideas on how the Plandemic was created using infectious clones and non-specific pcr tests etc.

https://m.twitch.tv/gigaohmbiological

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago

“the financial situation is teetering on the edge of a major crisis. But is it accidental? And if not, what is the agenda behind it?”

Kit Knightly over at Off-G providing the story behind the bank collapses. Of course these are being engineered as a means of stealing wealth and effectively shutting the prison gates as the sheeple scramble for the safety of CBDC’s.

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Occams Pangolin Pie
Occams Pangolin Pie
2 years ago

I misread this: “The Pandemic of Journalistic Malfeasance”

However, on reflection there might be something in my word muddling. I’d certainly subscribe to The Journal of Pandemic Malfeasance.

After all, with friends like The Lancet who needs enemies.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago
Reply to  Occams Pangolin Pie

😀 😀 😀

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago

https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/nhs-urges-dodgy-covid-treatments-on-the-vulnerable/

A disturbing article pointing out that “mass hysteria” is still endemic within the NHS as it continues to maliciously encourage vulnerable people to test for the C1984 and if positive to report themselves. ‘Cures’ on offer include Remedisvir (nice) but no mention of the ultra safe but stlii outlawed Ivermectin.

It’s a quick read.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago

https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/sir-jeremy-farrar-caught-out-in-a-lie/

Jeremy Farrar caught lying?

What on earth is the world coming to?

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Chris P
Chris P
2 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Here he was confusing Vallance’s ‘scenario not a forecast’ of 50,000 reported cases per day during October 2020 with the ONS estimate for the population as a whole. There is no way he could have down that accidentally. I would say the corrupt WHO is a natural fit for him.

https://twitter.com/JeremyFarrar/status/1317041513591951360

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ebygum
ebygum
2 years ago

Michael P Senger
@MichaelPSenger

Today marks three years since “15 days to slow the spread.” In that time, we’ve seen millions of lockdown deaths, tens of millions thrown into poverty, years of lost education, trillions in wealth transferred to the richest, and, far far more—and COVID never slowed. Never forget.

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ebygum
ebygum
2 years ago

https://www.bitchute.com/video/dnhmRcApJ8cm/
MEP Mislav Kolakusic, …..the ongoing Covid vaccine purchase scandal..good to know they are not giving in….

….and also seeing a bit of pushback from other countries…

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/pfizer-agrees-revise-eu-covid-vaccine-contract-ft-2023-03-14/

March 14 (Reuters) – Pfizer Inc agreed to extend its COVID-19 vaccine contract from 2023 to 2026 with the European Union, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday, citing people with knowledge of the matter.
The drugmaker has offered to cut the number of doses being supplied by 40% and delay delivery of the shots, the report added. Under the revised terms, Pfizer is asking for payment for doses ordered that will never be manufactured, the FT report said.
Assen Medzhidiev, acting minister for health of Bulgaria, said his country along with Poland, Hungary and Lithuania opposed the proposed deal on surplus vaccines.
Medzhidiev added that he believed other EU members also would not support the proposed deal in its current form.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago
Reply to  ebygum

Currently the bulk of the world’s common sense is firmly deposited in just a few Eastern European countries.

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Chris P
Chris P
2 years ago
Reply to  ebygum

The FT journalist thinks the ‘vaccine’ glut is a result of the ‘pandemic’ finishing earlier than expected. Yeah, right. Obviously nothing to do with people all over the world rejecting the injections because they are unsafe and ineffective.

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ebygum
ebygum
2 years ago
Reply to  Chris P

LOL! Perhaps they get a bonus if they are good boys and girls and find a way to push the narrative!?

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Chris P
Chris P
2 years ago

Central Bank Digital Currencies being pushed in America in a less than transparent way. I apologise if this has been posted before.: –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVfRzWlmiXg

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