News Round-Up
5 May 2024
by Will Jones
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.
Even on the ONS's own data it's clear that there was never a 'pandemic of the unvaccinated' as the vast majority of deaths since the rollout have always been in the vaccinated, writes Nick Rendell.
The latest report on the future of the Great Barrier Reef by the Australian Academy of Science is riddled with wokeness, unscientific findings and pseudo-scientific romantic mythology, says Chris Morrison.
The CIA offered to pay off analysts in order to bury their findings that COVID-19 most likely leaked from a Wuhan lab, new whistleblower testimony to Congress alleges.
While Europe has now largely confined Covid vaccination to older groups, the US CDC has just recommended the new booster for everyone over six months, insisting “the benefits exceed the risks for everyone”.
In February 2020, a few days after being released from his quarantine "imprisonment", Germany's first Covid patient told an interviewer: "I’m doing great. I was never in fact doing poorly."
A U.S. federal court has ruled that the Biden administration violated the U.S. Constitution by making threatening demands of social media companies that they censor dissenting scientists over pandemic policies.
The recent and concerning collapse of the once revered scientific process in large parts of the climate change and medical community is detailed in a highly critical new paper from the Global Warming Policy Foundation.
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".
The true effectiveness of the first Covid booster was short-lived, if meaningful at all, once inherent biases are corrected for, says Prof Eyal Shahar. Peak protection was somewhere between mediocre and zero.
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