In March 2023, Cochrane stated it was engaging with the authors of the Cochrane Review on ‘Physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses’ of which my colleague Tom Jefferson is lead author.
Under pressure from a New York Times social media influencer, Cochrane’s Editor-in-Chief (EIC) posted a communiqué undermining the review and its findings.
Cochrane has now published a communiqué that overturns this statement.
In the midst of the Covid panic, some lost their heads. Cochrane leaders have now recanted their statement undermining their own review that they approved and has mega access figures. However, the damage has been done.
The confusion led to the then-CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky misleading Congress, giving false testimony to the U.S. Congress that the review had been retracted. This forced Congressional staff to correct the record of the hearing.
The communiqué opened the door to many of the names in the list of zero-Coviders to attack the review and distort reality.
The original communiqué now contains the following update.
Learning from this lesson is vital if we are to make improvements in how research is published and interpreted.
Dr. Carl Heneghan is the Oxford Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine. This article was first published on his Substack, Trust The Evidence, which you can subscribe to here.
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/06/06/the-latest-bird-flu-death-is-covid-all-over-again/
Kit Knightly with a further look at the rising incidence of bird ‘flu. Well potentially one case actually although another new strain has been detected. Apparently.
Yep, it definitely looks like we are in for C1984 Mark ll.
Get the masks ready. 😷
😀 😀 😀
UKC today were talking about the ecoli outbreaks and whether this might be the first step in the attack on food.
We’ve been ‘in’ for that ever since COVID’s untimely demise in January 2022¹, when the WHO sent a special envoy to London in a last-ditch attempt to rescue the reinstated mask mandate who oracled about the gravest consequences for both the UK and the world at a large within at most a fortnight should the mandate actually be lifted.
For as long as these people haven’t been shot or otherwise permanently incapacitated (eg, chain them all to the walls of some old-style lunatics asylum), they’ll try to get the exact same shit show caravan out of the ditch and back onto the main road again.
¹ In the UK. It lasted way longer in countries where UN-control is better established, eg, so-called Germany.
Whooping cough also. We had bird flu panic a few years ago and considering birds fly all over the planet there is now logic in it keep being a threat.
Unless the Fauci funded Gain of Function work has been busy making the Bird Flu virus worse in some way. While some businesses get shut down for Health and Safety infringements, it seems there has been no call anywhere to end Gain of Function testing. I think it is that serious the death sentence should be re-introduced for anyone working in or funding such dangerous activities.
Diapers don’t work. Any study claiming they do is fraudulent. Most of ‘science’ is fraudulent. Follow the Fraud. Follow the $ to find the fraud.
There were other types of masks besides Diapers.
Or…
What to say about this one? There was a video (in fact quite a few) of bands and Orchestras playing with masks and with the wind and brass wearing masks with cut outs like the one below. I can’t seem to find the videos now for some reason.
It’s difficult to get your head around such utter stupidity. Mind boggling, but we are getting more stupid by the day.
Today, the general level of intelligence is low, thanks to brain killing tv. I know people who would put a mask on tomorrow. At least 50% of the population would gladly follow.
You must be aware of the Solomon Asch Conformity experiment? That showed that around 80% of people will conform with what every else is doing. It doesn’t appear that is a problem that is progressing but a characteristic of humans. Perhaps it’s character that is more important than intelligence, after all the ‘brightest and best’ are all in high positions such as the UN and Civil Service and the like. Their intelligence has given them high status.