News Round-Up
14 January 2025
Starmer Throws Reeves’s Future into Doubt
14 January 2025
by Will Jones
The German media are waking up to the fact that their mask-loving Health Minister Karl Lauterbach is an international laughingstock thanks to a devastating intervention by Stanford's Professor Jay Bhattacharya.
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".
A BA pilot who was banned from flying for refusing to wear a mask has failed in his attempt to sue the airline for discrimination after a court declared a "fundamental" human right to expect others to wear a face mask.
"If we ignore high-quality evidence, we arrive at the conclusion we want." Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson say that the Royal Society lockdown report authors appear to fully understand the politics.
A major new review from the Royal Society has concluded that lockdowns and masks were “unequivocally” effective against Covid. But many of the authors are based in China and it was peer-reviewed by Neil Ferguson.
Members of professional Covid alarmist group Independent SAGE have once again called for the return of face masks. Will they ever accept the scientific evidence is not on their side, asks Dr Gary Sidley.
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