News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Does Michael Mann's libel victory over Mark Steyn mean we're saddled with his hockey stick climate chart forever, asks Tony Morrison. Or will good science eventually triumph over bad?
When the Cochrane review of face masks found no evidence of efficacy, Cochrane grandees disowned it. But is evidence now back in fashion, ask Tom Jefferson and Carl Heneghan.
Adverts for the expansion of London's Ulez scheme were misleading because they relied on modelling estimates and not actual data, the Advertising Standards Authority has ruled.
Devi Sridhar's knowledge of the epidemiology of respiratory viruses could be written on the back of a postage stamp, say Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson. Why was she a top pandemic adviser to the Scottish Government?
The time has come to get rid of the whole lot of them, say Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson. Free people should not tolerate lightweight healthcare decision-makers, boot lickers, profiteers and politickers as leaders.
A new systematic review of high quality evidence finds masking children made no obvious difference to Covid infection rates, confirming that the CDC and other 'experts' hurt children for nothing.
A new systematic review in the BMJ has concluded that "adults who work with children should be educated about the lack of clear benefits and the potential harms of masking children".
There is no solid proof masks ever slowed the spread of Covid and they may have made things worse, England's former Deputy Chief Medical Officer and now UKHSA boss has said.
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.
Repeatedly in the Covid Inquiry it is claimed that 2020's Eat Out to Help Out scheme drove a second Covid wave. But the evidence for this just isn't there, say Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson.
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