- “Masks, screens and workplace bubbles in new Covid office guidance” – New guidance has been released for workplaces to follow after July 19th and it is, says MailOnline, barely different from the guidance they’re already following
- “Covid safety guidance to firms in England criticised as ‘recipe for chaos’” – Frances O’Grady, the general secretary of the TUC, has described the new Covid guidance for businesses as a “recipe for chaos and rising infections”, the Guardian reports
- “Vaccines tsar Kate Bingham can’t travel abroad because she had trial jab” – Dame Kate Bingham is among an estimated 40,000 Britons unable to leave the county because she took part in early vaccine trials, and, according to the Telegraph, the NHS computer system doesn’t recognise the trial jabs
- “Covid travel: which countries are on the green, amber and red lists?” – The Guardian examines the mismatch between the data and countries’ travel status on the traffic light system
- “Summer catch-up classes canned as teachers complain they ‘need a break’” – Fewer than one in five schools will run catch-up programmes over the holidays, the Telegraph reports, as heads say they need to give staff time off
- “Restaurants, pubs and bars urged to consider using Covid passports” – According to the Telegraph, the Government is also urging pubs, bars and restaurants to make use of the NHS app
- “Price rises speed up again as economy unlocks” – The inflation rate has hit 2.5% in June, the BBC reports, the highest for nearly three years and exceeding the Bank of England’s target for a second month in a row
- “Covid outbreak aboard Royal Navy flotilla on first global tour after Cyprus stopover” – There has been an outbreak of Covid aboard HMS Queen Elizabeth and and on four of the warships accompanying it on its first global tour which takes in 40 countries as well as the South China sea, according to Sky News
- “COVID-19: Why is there a surge in winter viruses at the moment?” – Sky News reports on the current rise in respiratory infections, which are more often seen in Winter, caused by what experts are calling an “immunity debt”
- “It’s our patriotic duty to live as freely and boldly as we can” – “I’m sick of being told that I am selfish, irresponsible or uncaring because I want my offspring and their contemporaries to enjoy the rich, exciting, full and, yes, unmasked life which they need to flourish,” says Allison Pearson in the Telegraph
- “Britain is sleepwalking into a state of perpetual Covid tyranny” – “Britain and America always had a lot dividing us,” writes Douglas Murray in the Telegraph, including “our differing national attitudes towards freedom”
- “Masks or no masks? For the culture industry, Freedom Day brings nothing but confusion” – Writing in the Telegraph, Marianka Swain sets out the choices faced by the arts sector as it navigates ‘Freedom Day’. For theatres, clubs and cinemas, it is more like “chaos and confusion day” she says
- “Why no ambitious woman should work from home” – In her Daily Mail column, Janet Steet-Porter urges career women to get back to the office and get a promotion
- “Yes, care-home workers must be vaccinated” – “Mandatory vaccinations for care-home staff does not set a dangerous, dystopian precedent,” writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked
- “The ‘racketeering and corruption’ that led to man-made Covid virus being unleashed” – Neville Hodgkison continues his account in the Conservative Woman of the evidence presented by Dr. David Martin to the Corona Ausschuss about patents related to SARS coronavirus
- “Farewell, Liberté” – “Freedom for the French will from now on be loosely defined as freedom to do what you think is best, as long as the state agrees,” says Richard Ings in the Conservative Woman
- “If anyone backs vaccine for children, tell them to read this compelling scientific rebuttal” – The Conservative Woman’s Kathy Gyngell recommends COVID-19 Vaccines and Children: A Scientist’s Guide for Parents, a report by Dr Byram Bridle of the Canadian Covid Care Alliance
- “How I got my mind back from Project Fear” – Tom Penn tells of how the “full scale of the Great Hoodwink” dawned upon him in the Conservative Woman
- “The Tyranny of Masks” – Psychologist Dr. Gary Sidely is the guest on Escape from Lockdown, explaining to host Alex McCarron why the Government mandated masks and why some scientists are obsessed with them
- “France Takes To The Streets” – Hugo Talks covers the protests in France that followed President Macron’s speech announcing vaccine passports would be required for pubs, clubs, restaurants and shops and hinting that the jab could become mandatory
- “Paris in flames as protesters fight new Covid pass and vaccine laws” – Hundreds of café owners, hospital workers and parents have descended on Paris on Bastille day to protest against President Macron’s plans for tackling coronavirus, MailOnline reports
- “French retailers puzzle over how to keep non-vaccinated shoppers from stores” – Reuters reports that French retailers have been left puzzling over how the Government’s proposal to block unvaccinated people could work out in practice
- “France’s mandatory ‘health pass’ with Government-issued QR codes for access to everyday life is the start of a dystopian nightmare” – President Macron’s announcement on Monday is “the final nail in the coffin of civil liberties” says Rachel Marsden in RT
- “Spain’s top court rules pandemic lockdown unconstitutional” – Spain’s Constitutional Court has ruled by a narrow margin that the Government’s measure last year ordering the population to shelter in their homes was unconstitutional and a violation of citizens rights, the Associated Press reports
- “In Athens, thousands rally against COVID-19 vaccinations” – More than 5,000 anti-vaxx protesters, some them waving Greek flags and wooden crosses, rallied in Athens to oppose Greece’s coronavirus vaccinations programme, Reuters reports,
- “Fire at Coronavirus Hospital in Southern Iraq Kills at Least 92 People” – A fire caused by an oxygen tank explosion ripped through a Covid ward in the al-Hussein Teaching hospital in Nasiriyah, Iraq, Breitbart says, killing at least 92 people
- “More young Canadians died from ‘unintentional side effects’ of the pandemic, not Covid” – The Toronto Sun reports on the latest data from Statistics Canada which says that there were 5,535 excess deaths of people under the age of 65, but just 1,380 Covid-related deaths in that age group, suggesting that the excess mortality is related to other factors, such as substance use
- “Some strip clubs to require vaccine passports for entry” – Filmores near Sherbourne and Dundas in Toronto have said that all dancers will be vaccinated, as will all other employees, the Post Millennial reports, and the establishments expect the same of their guests
- “No Victory Lap For Governors Who Locked Down America” – James Bovard responds for the AIER to Andrew Cuomo’s recent statement that his experience of the COVID-19 crisis “was a tremendous personal benefit” and Governors now have a new “credibility” and a new “status”
- “South Africa’s Looting, Violence Reflect Inequalities Exacerbated by COVID-19 Pandemic” – The violence and looting in parts of South Africa reflect “deep-seated problems” in the country’s economy, say Gabriele Steinhauser and Aaisher Dadi Patel in the Wall Street Journal. “A third pandemic lockdown is exacerbating economic pain and joblessness that has disproportionately affected the poor”
- “Is the vaccination emperor as naked as his lockdown cousin?” – Ramesh Thakur takes a look at pre and post-vaccination mortality data from the European Union for Spectator Australia and finds that “the total number of COVID-19 related deaths more than doubled in the six months following vaccination compared to the six months before”
- “Refusal to accept natural immunity as vaccine discriminates against working class” – Dr. Jay Bhattacharya appears alongside Dr Peter McCullough on Fox’s Ingraham Angle to discuss the latest evidence that COVID-19 is not a great threat to children and essential workers who have recovered from the disease
- “Enough is enough. We have to live with the virus” – Pathologist Dr. Clare Craig is nervous about what might happen come autumn, but, she tells Mark Dolan on talkRADIO, she doesn’t think people will tolerate another lockdown
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How naive I was until not so long, believing that the presentation of facts and evidence in a competent way was all that was needed to establish truth and debunk lies.
The ridiculous trial of Galileo was a story from the past, of how backward we were and how far we had come.
It turns out there is a powerful organisation and infrastructure in place which all but guarantees that facts and evidence alone are not enough to challenge official dogma and lies.
The real story about Galileo was not a dispute of the facts, because the Church’s own scientists knew Galileo was correct.
But the Church presented itself as God’s representative on Earth, so the Church’s words and directions were those if God.
The Church had always preached that the Sun revolved round a flat Earth. If they agreed with Galileo then either God was wrong, or they did not represent God on Earth. Since most would never believe God could be wrong, they would doubt the Church which would lose its authority and power.
It never was or is about facts, it’s about maintaining authority, power and control. Also why the facts about ‘climate change’ don’t matter.
Absolute nonsense. The Church did not preach a flat earth. The spherical nature of the earth had been known since ancient times and was widely accepted in the Middle Ages by most educated people, Thomas Aquinas mentions it in his Summa Theologica as an example of a well established scientific fact.
The Church initially supported the Ptolemaic system which had the sun and planets revolving around a spherical stationary earth. When Galileo’s discovery of the transit of Venus made that system untenable most astronomers, whether affiliated to the Church or not, adopted compromise models such as that of Tycho Braye, where some or all of the other planets revolved around the sun, which itself revolved around a stationary earth.
And they adopted such systems for valid scientific reasons. The evidence available at the time (notably the complete absence of observed stellar parallax) was strongly against any model of the universe in which the earth was not fixed. Galileo, despite his undeniable scientific achievements, was something of a fanatic in his support of the Copernican model, advocating it with a fervour that was not justified by the available evidence.
The Copernican model was not even strictly heliocentric. It had the sun moving in its own orbit around the empty centre of the solar system. It was frankly an ugly beast, even more than the Ptolemaic model. And of course it was wrong, as strictly speaking was Galileo. The correct model of the solar system was the elliptical heliocentric system of Johannes Kepler in which the earth and other planets moved in elliptical orbits with the sun at one of the foci. Galileo apparently knew of Kepler’s work but seems to have paid little attention to it.
It’s one of the ironies of history that Galileo is regarded as a champion of scientific rationalism, heroically fighting against the ignorance of blind faith, when the truth is actually closer to the other way round.
LOL……case proven I would say…in relation to having a debate, or at least a question about whether someone’s point can be challenged with different evidence…
Thank you JXB and David for your comments, you have made me want to go and take a look at this myself….which is how it should work, and is a good thing…?
There is no certainties in science just a certainty of the uncertain.
If a “fact checker” cannot check the facts of a story through his own research and diligence then he is not really a fact checker. As Dr Tom Jefferson points out:
“We have done the tough work over two decades…”
“Our interpretation is one you can – and should if you want – challenge.”
However, to challenge effectively requires a degree of knowledge at least on a par with the author’s and these thicko second-rate hacks are a long way from such intelligence levels even if they had the work ethic required to complete the necessary research.
Fact checkers really are the lowest of the low, riding on the coat-tails of others for forty pieces of silver. Scum.
So well done Dr Tom Jefferson and I wholeheartedly agree with your stance.
Which is why instead of challenging the facts by setting out their own contradicting evidence, they attack the person with slurs, accusations and abstractions.
Exactly.
When you attack the person rather than the facts you have lost the argument
The whole concept of some definitive “fact checking service” seems to have arrived along with the death of free speech and the rise of censorship. I have no recollection of seeing such things in my youth – people simply voiced differing opinions and cited whatever evidence they could muster to support their position. The notion that where there’s a dispute about who is “right” can be resolved by a “fact checker” is utter bullshit.
It’s not about facts it’s about the unbridled rage and hatred that occurs when the mass formation is challenged.
Dr Jefferson gets my vote, the difficulty we all have is that turning a 300 page report into a single phrase means you have to have a good grasp of the problem, the research and the conclusion whereas the majority of modern commentators just want to be able to reinforce their particular audience’s prejudices.
I trust Dr Jefferson to do this, I don’t trust the commentators. Simple as that.
As a basic principle, never engage with somebody who is ‘reaching out to you’ (rather than contacting or writing to you), they are submerged in the lingo of Clown World and have limited intellect.
Fact checkers should be looking to find out what the facts are and report them impartially. If someone sets out to confirm a pre-judged outcome, and perhaps even ignores evidence that doesn’t confirm their intended outcome, that isn’t fact checking, it’s propaganda.
In the good old days, peer review was all the fact checking that was needed.
It was known as peer review because the people who did the checking were of equivalent status to the author(s) of the original paper. These were the people who were deemed to have the requisite skill and specialist knowledge to fully evaluate the work.
Whereas fact checkers are qualified how?
The quoted correspondence reads exactly like every other fact checker letter I’ve ever seen quoted. They clearly write according to a script.
The Daily Telegraph published an article, “Why fake news travels fast” in its Saturday 4/2 colour supplement. It condescendingly describes the gullibility (my word) of people who believe manipulated news. The techniques are Discrediting, Emotion, Polarisation, Impersonation, Conspiracy Theories, and Online Trolling. A perfect description of what the ruling elite has done to the public over the last two or three years. Except this is a description of how Conspiracy Theorists operate. People are working at Cambridge, the Cabinet Office and the WHO to develop computer games to help people spot fake news (Bad News and Go Viral!). There is particular emphasis on controlling the thoughts and opinions of young people. People who do not believe the official government line are labelled “hardcore deniers” and have to be deprogrammed. The expert sighs and says this takes a long time to do – “you just have to be patient”.
I am in no doubt that the new WHO Constitution will regard “hardcore deniers” as suffering from mental health issues and in need of sectioning or treatment. “Young people are the future citizens and leaders of the country; the point is not to tell them what to believe but to inoculate them against these techniques” (listed above). All the language is continually analogous to immunization.
I highly recommend people read this article if they want to know how fact-checkers and experts in “cognitive anti-bodies” are claiming a monopoly on their version of the truth.
https://brownstone.org/articles/studies-and-articles-on-mask-ineffectiveness-and-harms/
“More than 170 Comparative Studies and Articles on Mask Ineffectiveness and HarmsBY
PAUL ELIAS ALEXANDER DECEMBER 20, 2021″