- “‘We walked off £10,000 Saga cruise over compulsory facemasks and daily Covid tests’” – Had the reader known the true extent of the ship’s Covid policy he would have cancelled, says the Telegraph.
- “Petition: Open a Public Inquiry into COVID-19 Vaccine Safety” – Sign the petition on the Parliament website, which notes there has been a significant increase in heart attacks and related health issues since the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccines began and calls for proper investigation of this.
- “Trader working from home wiped out €300bn in stocks after adding extra zero” – Citigroup faces $50m hit after flash-crash caused by London-based trader, reports the Telegraph.
- “Death rates are soaring again in highly vaccinated European countries” – All-cause mortality is spiking in Europe and Alex Berenson spies suspicious correlations with booster rollouts.
- “Joe Biden is exaggerating the security stakes of Ukraine” – Neither democracy or America’s material interest are on the line, argues Ben Friedman in UnHerd.
- “We cannot adapt our way out of climate crisis, warns leading scientist” – The Guardian reports that Katharine Hayhoe, Professor of Political Science at Texas Tech, says the world is heading for dangers people have not seen in 10,000 years of civilisation.
- “No Trends in Hot Days In May, Despite Met Office Misinformation” – There have been no days of 25°C or more, either this May or May last year, and there is no upward trend in May ‘summer days’, writes Paul Homewood on Watts Up With That?
- “When will companies end their embarrassing Pride hypocrisy?” – June is Pride Month, the annual exercise in rainbow-washing, and if you listen very carefully you may even hear gay rights mentioned, says Stephen Daisley in the Spectator.
- “The myth of racist Britain” – The vast majority of Brits are tolerant and welcoming, says Rakib Ehsan in Spiked.
- “EU wants to radically change itself to reduce emissions 55% by 2030. Extra cost upwards of €10,000 per EU citizen (€5tr). It will reduce global temps by 0.004°C (0.007°F)” – Let’s not be surprised when the rest of the world doesn’t follow, says Bjorn Lomborg.
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One is an epidemiologist and one is an immunologist, so obviously neither of them have an interest in pushing the importance of some “epidemic” or some “vaccine”.
Cui bono?
This means they’re really both so called social scientists, just ones collecting (anecdotical) statistics related to a (somewhat) specific topic.
They torture numbers to get them to tell the required story.
Sort-of. I believe it’s usually much more simple: The only take the numbers supporting their story.
Anecdotical example: Some time in the 2010s, researchers of the German university of Mainz published a study supposedly demontrating that smoking impacts the cognitive abilities. As the original numbers wouldn’t budge, they simply dropped all data about women from their dataset, thereby achieving the desired result. That’s obviously scientifically completely justified because (sarcasm) everbody knows women are strange and different, right?
Immunology isn’t a social science – it’s a proper science in its own right.
People should […] wear masks whenever appropriate and have a vaccine whenever offered one.
This statement is scientifically based on nothing but statistical correlations of seriously dubious origin. Hence, calling someone who makes such statements a thinly disguised social scientist is appropriate, regardless of what immunology (something I didn’t make a statement about) might or might not also be.
My guess would be that these people phone up the Urniagad whenever they want to place another article. If that’s not just a recycled one with dates and facts updated.
Well, I hope both consensus scientists will be insisting that any guests they have over Xmas are at least quad jabbed, do a full PCR test 72 hours prior to visiting plus a same-day lateral flow, are triple masked and stay in the garden for lunch… No? Thought not.
And of course the more you mix with people the more risks of exposure to infective agents – it’s what your bl**dy immune system is for. It’s called BEING HUMAN.
Why can’t the so-called journalists at that rag of gates-funded idiocy and virtue-signalling filth of a paper, together with their moronic, dim-witted readership, practice what they preach and go and lock themselves away in isolation of the rest of the world, so that they can be sure to be safe? Perhaps they could persuade the BBC staff to all hide behind their sofa’s for the rest of their lives as well.
Excellent idea.
Yes please.
Everyone knows football is only for Nazis so serves them right if they catch the deadly Rona.
[sarc]
I wonder if Sheena is affiliated to Independent SAGE?
“We are in a much better position than we were two years ago, of course. Vaccines have made sure of that… “
I totally agree. Now about that “we” bit…
These two must be the life and soul of the party. If they ever get invited anymore.
Perhaps she should think about giving up her career and quit giving out terrible advice! How are these people still being given a platform?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tndGlA8Gdak
[Naked Gun, Safe Sex]
Desperate to get their govt advertising back and will stop at nothing to dramatise
Bull Sh1ting Toss ers ! These F-ckers need to F off & dye , soz but 2,1/2 bas tard years later ! Just Pizz off !!!
Freddy, delightfully restrained. Well done.
Not sure what’s less incredible:
Personally I’d round them all up and enlist them into the armed forces. A couple of years with a sergeant major or equivalent would do these clowns the world of good.
I guess that means mixing for the rugby and/or cricket is OK.
Guardian snobbery on full display. Football is played by, and watched by, nasty little oiks who on the whole don’t come from Islington.
How does avoiding social and physical contact, being anxious and isolated, affect a person’s immune system and health?
There was a Swedish study about 20 years ago which showed that lack of participation in social activities- such as choir singing, attending theatre, etc – was more detrimental to health than smoking.
“These findings indicate that the influence of social relationships on the risk of death are comparable with well-established risk factors for mortality such as smoking and alcohol consumption and exceed the influence of other risk factors such as physical inactivity and obesity.”
https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1000316
“Results People who engaged with receptive arts activities on an infrequent basis (once or twice a year) had a 14% lower risk of dying at any point during the follow-up (809/3042 deaths, hazard ratio 0.86, 95% confidence interval 0.77 to 0.96) compared with those who never engaged (837/1762 deaths). People who engaged with receptive arts activities on a frequent basis (every few months or more) had a 31% lower risk of dying (355/1906 deaths, 0.69, 0.59 to 0.80), independent of demographic, socioeconomic, health related, behavioural, and social factors. Results were robust to a range of sensitivity analyses with no evidence of moderation by sex, socioeconomic status, or social factors. This study was observational and so causality cannot be assumed.
Conclusions Receptive arts engagement could have a protective association with longevity in older adults. This association might be partly explained by differences in cognition, mental health, and physical activity among those who do and do not engage in the arts, but remains even when the model is adjusted for these factors.”
https://www.bmj.com/content/367/bmj.l6377