Cochrane’s Double Standards
When the Cochrane review of face masks found no evidence of efficacy, Cochrane grandees disowned it. But is evidence now back in fashion, ask Tom Jefferson and Carl Heneghan.
When the Cochrane review of face masks found no evidence of efficacy, Cochrane grandees disowned it. But is evidence now back in fashion, ask Tom Jefferson and Carl Heneghan.
U.K. universities lead the world in spin, says Dr. Roger Watson, who describes some of the most egregious examples from his 30-year university teaching career.
As the new Covid JN.1 variant spread over the winter, an Imperial College 'expert' predicted a "major surge in infections" and called for masks to return. This prediction, like all the others, did not age well.
The world just has to take the vaccine manufacturers' word that there's no contamination or variability with the mRNA sequence, even though published data indicate otherwise, says ex-FDA adviser Dr David Gortler.
A leaked recording reveals that the U.S. military told a pharma exec at AstraZeneca that the virus "posed a national security threat" on February 4th 2020 – weeks before a single death had occurred.
France suffers another violent attack by an Islamist, and just like with the deadly knife attack at the Eiffel Tower in December, once again the authorities deny it is a terror attack or politically motivated.
Arctic sea ice continues its stonking recovery with January's extent the 24th highest in a 45-year record. Time for the Net Zero blob to stop all the fudges, omissions and outright deceptions.
Adverts for the expansion of London's Ulez scheme were misleading because they relied on modelling estimates and not actual data, the Advertising Standards Authority has ruled.
Hysteria reigned supreme as recent global mainstream media headlines blamed last year's drought in the Amazon basin on human-caused climate change. But the actual data show little rainfall change in 300 years.
Devi Sridhar's knowledge of the epidemiology of respiratory viruses could be written on the back of a postage stamp, say Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson. Why was she a top pandemic adviser to the Scottish Government?
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