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14 January 2025
Starmer Throws Reeves’s Future into Doubt
14 January 2025
by Will Jones
In 2020, the Cochrane Collaboration delayed its review of face masks and NPIs for six months while pushing out on-message rapid reviews based on low quality evidence. It still won't admit it was wrong.
When three Covid sceptics bumped into Germany's 'state virologist' Christian Drosten on a campsite they could hardly believe it and made sure to give him a piece of their mind. They've now been fined for "insulting" him.
We’re in the middle of 2024, and the 'experts' still won’t give up their ridiculous defence of Covid mandates. But it's all just proof-by-assumption based on guesswork and biased data, says Ian Miller.
A series of FOIs proves that the NHS really was just making it up as it went along on face masks. Not a single scientific assessment of risk and benefit could be produced.
Science found a "near non-existent" benefit of face masks, the Covid Inquiry Lead Counsel told Devi Sridhar last week. "Should this debate have been bypassed?" he asked her. "Exactly," she replied.
Still today, the U.S. CDC recommends that children as young as two wear a face mask to protect against Covid. When will public health officials accept the evidence that they don't work, ask Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson.
Humza Yousaf was told by Nicola Sturgeon’s most high-profile medical adviser to "hold a drink at all times" to get round her rules on wearing a face mask when he was Health Secretary, the Covid Inquiry has heard.
Like those Japanese soldiers still fighting World War II decades later, some UK hospitals continue to mandate masks for patients and staff. When will they accept the evidence is not on their side, asks Dr Gary Sidley.
An update from the U.K. Covid Inquiry, where Professor Carl Hangimout is not being accorded quite the same level of courtesy and respect as Professor Trish Greenkookie by Lady Mallett and Mr. Kitsch K.C.
Steven Tucker recalls the Christmases of the pandemic years, when disturbing 'Covid-safe' Santas, sporting face masks and pushing vaccines, stalked the land and haunted children's dreams.
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