Governments concerned about Covid misinformation should start with their own lies and distortions, Indiana's Attorney General has told the U.S. Government. Read his nine examples of disinformation.
Collateral Global is hosting a live Q&A session tonight as it premieres a conversation between two sceptical heavyweights: Professors John Ioannidis and Jay Bhattacharya.
Early in the pandemic a narrow scientific 'groupthink' took hold, which cast those questioning draconian policies as unethical, immoral and fringe – but this smokescreen is finally starting to dissipate.
Professor John Ioannidis has written a paper for BMJ Open Research exploring how pro-lockdown scientists used social media to smear sceptical scientists, thereby shutting down debate.
Dr Alan Mordue, a retired Consultant in Public Health Medicine, writes for the Daily Sceptic of his alarm that important principles of public health have been jettisoned in the pandemic.
In an email obtained via FOI request, the former head of the NIH described the Great Barrington authors as "fringe epidemiologists" and called for a "take down" of the Declaration. Now two of them have hit back.
Professor Mark Woolhouse, an expert on infectious diseases at Edinburgh University, has a new book out in which he blasts lockdowns as morally wrong and highly damaging.
Phil Magness was present at the conference that led to the Great Barrington Declaration. We asked him about lockdowns, focused protection, liberal illiberalism and what Donald Trump should have done last year.
Chris Whitty said the Great Barrington Declaration is "probably" unethical, presumably because it would have led to more deaths. But the UK's pandemic plan forecast 315,000 deaths, and Whitty never tried to change it.
The BMJ has published a clumsy and very belated hit piece against the Great Barrington Declaration, which relies on ad hominem, guilt by association and appeals to authority. Read this point-by-point response.
