News Round-Up
5 May 2024
by Will Jones
Topsy-Turvy Land
5 May 2024
No Phones in Lavatories
5 May 2024
by Joanna Gray
Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson have decided that they will continue to cover the Covid Inquiry, despite its extreme biases, but will leave reporting on the sordid sideshows to others.
The Covid Inquiry is now hopelessly compromised by the partisan words of its own Chair. It has become an embarrassment and is jeopardising the reputation of the English legal system.
Prof Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson have taken it upon themselves to appraise the UKHSA's evidence for Covid restrictions. No wonder they didn't want to do it themselves, they say: it's a complete mess.
Well, it now looks as if the grandees are turning against each other, with Sir Patrick Vallance, the Government's Chief Scientific Adviser during Covid, accusing politicians of cherry-picking the science.
The U.K. Health Security Agency has finally acknowledged the lack of good evidence on the effectiveness of lockdowns and other NPIs. But there are still no plans to rectify that, say Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson.
On Wednesday, the U.K. Health Security Agency quietly released a review which found there is no good evidence for the effectiveness of lockdowns and other NPIs on Covid transmission. But still no word about harms.
A 27 year-old footballer, Maddy Cusack, has died, and suddenly a media that is awash with speculation on all kinds of tenuous subjects has no curiosity to find out why, says Dr David Seedhouse.
Dr. Tom Jefferson and Prof. Carl Heneghan write that their Cochrane review on masks found no evidence they stopped viruses – a politically inconvenient conclusion that had to be silenced, come what may.
The case against Lucy Letby is far from watertight, says Prof David Livermore. Many more babies died than she was blamed for, and she wasn't even on shift when a key insulin bag was changed. She must be allowed an appeal.
Anthony Fauci was challenged on CNN (really) over the Cochrane review showing no evidence for face masks against Covid. Now, the review's lead author Tom Jefferson has said his comments defending masks "don't make sense".
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