Tag: Risk-Benefit Analysis

A series of FOIs proves that the NHS really was just making it up as it went along on face masks. Not a single scientific assessment of risk and benefit could be produced.

Following the New Year's Day earthquake in Japan, people have been taking refuge in a centre where, because of Covid, they are made to sleep in a mask with the doors open. In winter. Elderly people. To "reduce risk".

Of course 5G isn't safe, says Mark Ellse. But nothing is. The question is how high the risks are. Which for radio-frequency radiation at a distance is very likely to be small.

Even on conservative assumptions, a '90% relative effectiveness' for a vaccine is just a 0.00027% absolute effectiveness for a young person. This was not properly explained, undermining informed consent.

How many Covid vaccine-related adverse events are acceptable? Do the benefits outweigh the risks? Two senior individuals working in the pharmaceutical industry address this question, and their answer may surprise you.

It is impossible to reconcile a highly effective Covid vaccine with the excess mortality in Denmark since 2021, says Professor of Public Health Eyal Shahar.

Andrew Bridgen MP recently made an important speech to Parliament on the risks vs benefits of Covid vaccination that was attacked on the BBC. The attacks, however, were misplaced, say Prof Norman Fenton and colleagues.

In December 2021, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla was given the BBC's stage to promote his vaccine to children, describing it as "completely completely" beneficial. UsForThem complained that this was misleading – and won.

We're publishing a long, thoughtful essay on the Daily Sceptic by an MIT-educated software developer who has decided, on balance, not to get vaccinated. He's reasonable and scientifically-literate, not an anti-vaxxer.