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 Rochelle Walensky misleading Congress, giving false testimony to the U.S. Congress that the review had been retracted.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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Now watch the North & South Circulars clog up, and INCREASE real pollution.
Also, in one fell swoop, and in the midst of a cost-of-living crisis, he’s added £62.50/week (£250/month) to workers’ who have to travel by car and tradesmens’ costs.
Somebody tell Sadiq that Global Warming ended three days ago.
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It has been successful in increasing his revenue – a transfer of wealth from probably the poorer sections of the people who live and work in the area to his coffers.
And it might support the second hand value of some cars.
I was chatting to a friend recently about the war on cars – she’s a typical ex-BBC employee now in ‘PR and communications’ so that automatically puts her in the ‘climate crisis’ cult and she loftily announced “We don’t need car ownership anyway, people can just rent them if they need them.”
I asked her how someone like my friend who lives in a village with no buses and has to commute to the local city hospital to be an A&E nurse is going to be able to get to work so she can earn a living and feed her family. I asked her how it’s financially viable for some of my freelance musician friends to do a gig for £120 but lose most of that in car hire charges. She didn’t have an answer. The bourgeoise cognitive dissonance was deafening and bordering on brain damaged. What was most depressing of all was this is precisely how nearly all of our politicians think now, either through naked corruption and lies like our robber baron Sadiq here or just bovine virtue signalling imbecility.
So only the wealthy get to drive and earn a living basically. Until they’re not of course and we’re all equally bankrupt and reduced to collecting our digital ‘living wage’ from a WEF led centralised global political cartel of billionaire looters.
Excellent post.
Don’t forget:
You will own nothing and be happy.
Wherever Sadiq Khan is in the ULEZ, he and his cronies are never far from Barking…
I’m surprised Khan hasn’t announced the creation of a safe space for illegal dinghy folk. Fill up your city with useful idiots who’ll vote for you and Roberts your dad’s brother.
Remind yourself of the story about the scorpion and the frog.
Londoners have got what they voted for.
The rest of the country needs to wake up and stop voting for Socialist-Eco Loons. And that includes the ones who pretend to be Conservatives.
ULEZ is a joke. A friend of mine had to give up his car when the new zone was introduced, which he occasionally used to take his elderly mother shopping. It took green fuel but did not meet the EU specification on which the threshold for charging is based. With ULEZ expansion I might have been in the same boat but my own vehicle is just within the regulations. Khan is an idiot who has proven time and again his unfitness for the job of Mayor of London. I am not being partisan here, there are good and bad Mayors of all parties. Without the Labour label in an election Khan standing on his record and “achievements” would surely lose his deposit.
Wow!! Labour politician lies in the face of contrary evidence. There must be a y in the day.