News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Last night, Megyn Kelly asked the Republican presidential hopefuls whether Donald Trump was right to be proud of Operation Warp Speed, which approved the mRNA Covid vaccines in record time. Here's what they said.
Pfizer is facing legal action in Texas for false advertising and selling a fraudulent product, with additional accusations of conspiring to silence critics.
Fourteen years ago, the BMJ was instrumental in exposing fraudulent medical research. Now, it simply toes the establishment line. Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson write an obituary for the once fearsome watchdog.
In a new report, the Washington Times details NewsGuard's close funding ties with Big Pharma as the media monitoring organisation has sought to close down criticism of vaccines and Covid policies.
Moderna is spying on you, say Lee Fang and Jack Poulson as they expose the behind-the-scenes machinations of the Covid vaccine maker to shape and censor the public debate around the jabs.
The boundary between liberal democracy and draconian dictatorship proved to be virus thin, writes Professor Ramesh Thakur. Tools of repression became uncomfortably familiar on the streets of Western democracies.
Hydroxychloroquine was dismissed as a Covid treatment early on and its supporters were censored. But now a new peer-reviewed study finds the cheap drug dramatically cuts Covid mortality after all.
Sir Jonathan Van-Tam's move from the U.K.'s pandemic team to pharma giant Moderna has reignited discussions about Government officials moving to the private sector and the potential misuse of information.
Safety concerns with the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid vaccine have been sparked by revelations of the cosy relationship between BioNTech and the German regulator which approved it for release.
What was there to like in the Covid era, asks Ramesh Thakur. Billions, if you were Big Pharma. Unchecked power, if you were Big State. More control over the world's governments, for the WHO. Misery for the rest of us.
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