News Round-Up
28 March 2023
by Will Jones
The Bad Science Behind Sadiq Khan’s ULEZ Anti-Car Crusade
28 March 2023
by Ben Pile
There's been a big push to insulate old homes to improve energy efficiency and reduce carbon emissions. But is this causing harm to health as humidity rises in homes not designed to be insulated?
In the spirit of Mrs Merton we might ask: "So why were healthy children and young adults coerced into receiving unnecessary multiple Covid vaccinations from a $1.4 trillion global pharmaceutical industry?"
With prescriptions of antibiotics, painkillers, sedatives and opioids rising considerably during the Covid lockdowns, is overuse of medicine making us unwell, asks Dr Mark Shaw.
The Online Safety Bill, with its requirement to censor 'legal but harmful' content, would only reinforce the growing tendency of news and social media to repeat Government-approved propaganda.
Dr Mark Shaw writes that the one-sided, wall-to-wall media coverage of the Queen's death was understandable, but for many it was painfully reminiscent of the Covid propaganda of the last two and a half years.
Retired dentist Dr Mark Shaw says the Government, the healthcare profession and the BBC have breached their contract with the public over Covid and taken us for fools.
Some say insect and bird numbers have dropped precipitously in recent decades. Others point out some species are burgeoning. What's the truth about the 'insect apocalypse'?
Former Health Secretary Sajid Javid was a champion of vaccine mandates for healthcare workers and pushed for a Christmas lockdown last winter. He must not become Prime Minister.
How can we be protected from the sort of fraud we have endured over the last few years? How can we improve risk evaluation and keep our guard? It should start at school, with children taught to think for themselves.
Ethical scepticism refuses to let the perpetrator of a gross injustice off the hook and evade accountability just because the alternatives may be worse. Ethical sceptics should have no confidence in Boris Johnson.
While the Government is keen to 'move on' from partygate, the public can hardly move on from the lockdowns when we've been misinformed, taken for a ride and then taken to the cleaners by the partyers in No 10.
The dangers of a culture of silence and compliance exposed in the Shrewsbury maternity scandal are being repeated in the Covid vaccine programme, as doctors keep quiet about things which go against the current ideology.
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