- “Westminster’s vaccine safety debate: Heroes and head-in-the-sand hardliners” – The Conservative Woman’s Kathy Gyngell reports on Monday’s parliamentary debate on COVID-19 vaccine safety. She was, she laments, “the only member of anything pertaining to being ‘the Press’ in attendance”
- “CDC Pushed for COVID-19 Boosters Without Clinical Trials: Emails” – Emails obtained by Judicial Watch reveal that the CDC pressured U.S. regulators to authorise Covid boosters without clinical trial data, the Epoch Times reports
- “The Covid tyranny, and why some of us stood up to it” – It was due, among other things, “to courage, natural scepticism of mass movements, a love of truth,” and “moral values deeper than mere physical safety,” writes philosopher Dr. Frank Palmer in the Conservative Woman
- “Veteran denied service at VA clinic over mask rules despite medical condition” – The Post Millennial flags a video showing a veteran being denied access to a health clinic because he was not wearing a mask on account of his PTSD
- “No surge expected in global Covid cases this winter” – A University of Washington analysis estimates that global COVID-19 infections will rise to an average of 18.7 million daily cases by February next year, the Cyprus Mail reports, up from the current 16.7 million
- “The SARS-CoV-2 transmission riddle – Part 10” – Tom Jefferson and Carl Heneghan look to human challenge studies for further insight into SARS-CoV-2 transmission
- “Biden’s Bivalent Booster Blunder” – “The only way for Biden to save himself from his terrible Covid policy is to fire all his advisors and rehire good ones,” says Vinay Prasad
- “How China Abuses U.S. Diplomats” – State Department communications shared with the Wall Street Journal describe how the U.S. Government let China impose its coercive zero-Covid protocols on American diplomats
- “BBC Should Step Aside and Allow the Biopharmaceutical Industry to Do its Own Public Relations” – Paul D. Thacker of the Disinformation Chronicle wonders why the BBC and other fact check sites are “constantly sprinting to the podium as spokespeople for an industry with such a long and tattered history of documented lies?”
- “Parochial and Pathological Altruism” – “Altruism has a dark, hidden pathology,” writes Lucio Saverio-Eastman at the Brownstone Institute, “that has driven some of the worst and most horrific acts humanity has ever experienced”
- “Cancer Rates are Increasing – and May Get Much Worse” – “Cancer deaths began to increase, off the charts, in late 2021,” reports Igor Chudov and he warns that “we are seeing only the first small ripple of a storm coming in the future”
- “How Big Pharma monetised depression” – Writing in UnHerd, Robert Whitaker explains how America was sold a “lucrative myth” about depression
- “Sunak’s ‘ban’ on domestic shale gas is an economic blunder that will worsen Britain’s energy crisis” – Net Zero Watch laments Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s decision to reinstate the ban on shale gas exploration in England
- “Climate alarmism is bad for your health” – “There is an iron-clad relationship between economic development and people’s health,” argues Laurie Wastell, an intern at spiked. “And no country in history has ever become wealthy without making use of fossil fuels”
- “Where are electric cars going?” – “Countries are keen to out-virtue-signal each other with electric cars,” says Graham Pinn in Spectator Australia, but “what is plainly missing in the game is any concept as to how these goals can realistically be achieved”
- “Why solar is not the solution to the energy crisis” – “Next gen nuclear power is clean, efficient, and environmentally friendly,” says Steve Kirsch. “Why was it killed?”
- “University of York drops students’ initials from email addresses in trans-friendly move” – University of York student email addresses will now be made up of randomly generated letters rather than initials, according to the Telegraph, in order to accommodate students who have changed their gender, or got married or divorced, and therefore changed their name”
- “Cambridge college apologises for ‘distressing’ gender critical lecture” – The head of sociology at Cambridge University has apologised to students for ‘distressing’ them with an advert promoting a ‘harmful’ talk about gender ideology with the author Helen Joyce, MailOnline reports.
- “Cancelled preacher gets £100,000 payout” – Franklin Graham will receive almost £100,000 in damages, according to the Times, after a judge ruled that the Scottish Event Campus breached the equality act when it cancelled his event due to the “adverse publicity” generated by his tour
- “The black sheep of the EU head for crisis as Brussels cuts off lifelines” – Hungary is at loggerheads with Brussels over £23.4 billion in EU funding which has been withheld from the country due to concerns over corruption, democratic standards and gay and trans rights, the Telegraph reports. Victor Orban’s allies say the EU is trying to enforce its woke ideology
- “‘Sturgeon’s Tavistock’ clinic offers trans children surgery not backed by ‘robust evidence’” – A leaked recording has revealed that the Sandyford Clinic in Glasgow has been offering patients irreversible sex-change treatments despite senior clinicians admitting that its methods are not backed by “robust evidence”, the Telegraph reports
- “Sacheen Littlefeather and the rise of the race fakers” – “We live in a world that is obsessed with ‘identity’,” writes Frank Furedi in spiked, “And an identity that conveys victim status is prized above all others”
- “Thai transgender activist buys Miss Universe org for $20M” – Thai business tycoon and transgender activist Chakrapong “Anne” Chakrajutathib has purchased the Miss Universe Organization for $20 million, reports the Associated Press
- “Pfizer has now admitted they did not test whether the COVID vaccines prevented transmission before releasing them” – “It is now perfectly clear that we were lied to,” says Ben Shapiro, “by both the vaccine companies in terms of the ability of the vaccines to prevent transmission, and by the politicians who apparently knew better”
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