Tag: The Science

On Wednesday, the U.K. Health Security Agency quietly released a review which found there is no good evidence for the effectiveness of lockdowns and other NPIs on Covid transmission. But still no word about harms.

Too many experts are too quick to override doubts and forge ahead with radical solutions based on over-confident models, says Dr Andrew Bamji. On Covid and climate, a strong dose of humility is in order.

The risks of developing Long Covid appear to have been exaggerated by flawed research, academics have suggested in a new paper published in the BMJ.

A 27 year-old footballer, Maddy Cusack, has died, and suddenly a media that is awash with speculation on all kinds of tenuous subjects has no curiosity to find out why, says Dr David Seedhouse.

A closer look at the timelines of Germany's Patients Zero and One reveals troubling inconsistencies, which call into question the entire official story of Germany’s alleged first COVID-19 cluster.

A BA pilot who was banned from flying for refusing to wear a mask has failed in his attempt to sue the airline for discrimination after a court declared a "fundamental" human right to expect others to wear a face mask.

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.

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”.

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.