News Round-Up
7 May 2024
The German Government rushed to lock down in 2020 against the scientific advice of its public health authority, documents reveal. Was it swayed by a dream of becoming "vaccine hub Germany", asks Robert Kogon.
Which profession let us down the worst in Covid, getting behind the awful lockdown restrictions and public health coercion with unseemly zeal? It's a close call, says Dr James Allan, but doctors are definitely up there.
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.
Will discrimination on the basis of intelligence be banned next? That's the suggestion Lionel Shriver explores in her new novel MANIA, based on the craziness of the last few years. Read her interview with Laura Dodsworth.
Matt Hancock, the ex-Health Secretary, has failed in his bid to have Andrew Bridgen's libel case thrown out after Hancock branded him antisemitic, paving the way for a full trial.
The World Health Organisation is gearing up to persuade the world's governments to sign a new pandemic treaty that would allow the unelected body to seize power over nation states in future pandemics, warns Matt Ridley.
Heart scarring was detected more than one year after COVID-19 vaccination in some people who suffered myocarditis following receipt of a shot, researchers reported in new studies.
With the firing of Prof. Martin Kulldorff for having the temerity to be proven right in his scepticism of Government Covid measures, Harvard really shows it has lost its way, say Dr. Peter Gøtzsche and Janus Bang.
Public satisfaction with the NHS has fallen to the lowest level on record amid poor access to GPs and long waits for hospital care, particularly since the pandemic.
COVID-19 jabs will be sold on the high street for £99 from next week to anyone over 12 years old, as Boots becomes the first major pharmacy to launch a private vaccination service.
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