News Round-Up
14 March 2023
by Will Jones
In Defence of Lineker’s Tweet
14 March 2023
by Andrew Barr
The UKHSA stopped its Covid modelling last month, but it has already begun to model bird flu. But when is it going to address the abysmal record of pandemic modelling when compared to real-world outcomes?
Excess deaths have been running high all year but despite repeated calls to investigate what's behind the thousands of extra deaths the Government has now stated it refuses do so.
Masks have no clear effect on the transmission of respiratory viruses. That's the conclusion of a major review of 78 RCTs led by Dr. Tom Jefferson. Oxford's Dr. Carl Heneghan interviews him about these striking findings.
Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson, in partnership with Big Brother Watch, have discovered they were being spied upon by various shadowy state agencies, including the 77th Brigade. Welcome to the Ministry of Truth.
Lockdowns were responsible for thousands of alcohol deaths, new ONS data show, as the rate rises 27% on pre-pandemic levels.
As 2022 ends, the BBC raises concern about the number of deaths and suggests what's behind them. However, ascertainment of causation requires serious work, not headline bait, write Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson.
In the last year, there has been an excess of 21,841 cardiovascular deaths. The data suggest it isn’t caused by a fall in drug treatment. The Government should do better to get to the bottom of what is really driving it.
Clinical trials of masks in various settings have failed to show any effect. Which tallies with everyone’s personal experience of mask 'protection'. So, why the sudden reintroduction, ask Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson.
Does the policy of requiring Chinese arrivals to have negative test make sense? If we don’t trust the data coming out of China, how can we trust the test used before Chinese travellers are allowed to board planes?
Without dissenters to pandemic policies, it would have taken much longer to exit lockdowns. Yet there was a concerted effort in government and media to discredit all dissent, say Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson.
Chris Whitty and Patrick Vallance are marking their own homework with their 'independent' report on lockdowns, and no surprises that they omit to highlight any of the glaring failures in the approach they took.
Can you catch Covid from groceries, soft toys, tables and sofas? In the wake of alarmist reports from the BBC, Professor Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson parse the evidence.
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