Why Cancer Screening Doesn’t Save Lives
A new study followed 400,000 men for 15 years and found no benefit from screening for prostate cancer. The problem is over-medicalisation and over-diagnosis, say Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson.
A new study followed 400,000 men for 15 years and found no benefit from screening for prostate cancer. The problem is over-medicalisation and over-diagnosis, say Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson.
Using the MHRA's own information on the frequency of adverse reactions to the Pfizer Covid vaccine, Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson come to some sobering estimates of the scale of harm.
Pfizer has been fined just £34,800 for promoting its Covid vaccine before authorisation. But this is a criminal offence, say Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson. When will overpaid bosses face real consequences?
Puberty blockers in children were always an unregulated live experiment based on no evidence, say Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson. The NHS is right to ban them.
Lockdowns in Wales were "for the sake of it", a former Government Minister has told the Covid Inquiry. The country just wanted to be seen to be different to England.
Wales's First Minister Mark Drakeford has told the Covid Inquiry that local Covid lockdowns were a "failed experiment". If they were an experiment, where was the consent, ask Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson.
Still today, the U.S. CDC recommends that children as young as two wear a face mask to protect against Covid. When will public health officials accept the evidence that they don't work, ask Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson.
When the Cochrane review of face masks found no evidence of efficacy, Cochrane grandees disowned it. But is evidence now back in fashion, ask Tom Jefferson and Carl Heneghan.
Devi Sridhar's knowledge of the epidemiology of respiratory viruses could be written on the back of a postage stamp, say Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson. Why was she a top pandemic adviser to the Scottish Government?
The U.K. lost £1.2 billion on stockpiling unused antivirals for Covid, say Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson. But where's the evidence these drugs do anything except line the pockets of pharma and the 'pandemic' industry?
The time has come to get rid of the whole lot of them, say Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson. Free people should not tolerate lightweight healthcare decision-makers, boot lickers, profiteers and politickers as leaders.
Obese NHS patients are now being given a gastric weight loss balloon. But will this new device be any safer than others that have proven deadly? It may be all too predictable, say Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson.
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