News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Dr. Mark Porter has declared that he is taking statins, having decided the benefits outweigh the risks. Dr. Maggie Cooper suggests he should be more suspicious of studies from drugs companies and think again.
Weight loss drug Ozempic cuts heart attack risk by 20% – according to the trial funded by its manufacturer. But are we being told the full story, asks David Craig.
The Human Medicines Regulations state that celebrity endorsement of drugs is not allowed. So why are TV doctors in the pay of AstraZeneca promoting vaccines in the media, ask Tom Jefferson and Carl Heneghan.
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?
Imagine a risk-free business scheme in which you get to create the market, manage its regulation, then confine people to their homes until they buy it. Welcome to the WHO's world of pandemic management, says Dr David Bell.
Four years after the advent of Covid lockdowns, what precisely was the point of the hell we went through, asks Jeffrey Tucker. Who did it and why? Why did it last so long? Why has there been no official accounting?
On Monday, UKHSA head Jenny Harries told MPs the agency had supplied detailed deaths data to vaccine companies but couldn't release it to the public for 'commercial sensitivity reasons'. Something to hide?
The WHO Pandemic Agreement has worried many, and justifiably so, as it further empowers the WHO and the whole pandemic preparedness crowd. But what it proposes is also really stupid, says Eugyppius.
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?
Academic publishing has become a racket, says Dr. David Livermore. Authors pay thousands to get their articles in, editors and referees are practically slave-labour, but publishing houses like Elsevier are raking it in.
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