News Round-Up
28 April 2024
by Will Jones
Should We Rename the Daily Sceptic the Daily Septic?
28 April 2024
Which profession let us down the worst in Covid, getting behind the awful lockdown restrictions and public health coercion with unseemly zeal? It's a close call, says Dr James Allan, but doctors are definitely up there.
Puberty blockers in children were always an unregulated live experiment based on no evidence, say Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson. The NHS is right to ban them.
What was most sinister about the striking off of Mr. Adil from the Medical Register for spreading Covid 'conspiracy theories' is that what the court was most concerned about was his refusal to recant his beliefs in public.
The U.K. lost £1.2 billion on stockpiling unused antivirals for Covid, say Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson. But where's the evidence these drugs do anything except line the pockets of pharma and the 'pandemic' industry?
Why does the NHS become less productive every year, despite growing numbers of doctors and huge splurges of cash? A new report actually gets the answer right, for once.
The ostentatious appointment of trans 'woman' Steph Richards to head a womb-disease charity may look like a publicity stunt, but there really is a growing number of men pretending to have female health conditions.
Medical ethics are vital and should be non-negotiable in a civilised society, including during an emergency. But sacred principles of bodily autonomy and informed consent were glibly cast aside during the pandemic.
Safety professional Nick Hunt has written to the Health Secretary to raise his deep concerns about the MHRA, which consistently misses safety signals from dangerous medicines.
The growth in people adopting LGBT identities and behaviours in recent years has been extraordinary. Most attribute it to cultural changes. But could there be something in the water as well?
The EU is investigating reports of suicidal thoughts associated with weight loss drugs Ozempic and Saxenda. This is not a surprise as all previous weight loss drugs have been withdrawn due to harms.
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