News Round-Up
5 May 2024
by Will Jones
No Phones in Lavatories
5 May 2024
by Joanna Gray
Do masks work? According to an article in STAT, "randomised controlled trials are the worst way to answer the question". That's just because they gave the wrong answer, says Dr Roger Watson.
After years of making kids mask for hours on end in school and imposing arbitrary mandates on planes and clinics, the German Government has admitted it has no idea whether it did anything, and no plans even to find out.
The academic publishing industry is taking green virtue-signalling to new heights of absurdity, committing not only to publishing research on the topic but cutting its own miniscule 'carbon footprint' as well.
Only 3% of Australians know that the Great Barrier Reef is at a record high following two years of record growth, a survey has found – a reflection of how well the media and scientists keep the truth hidden.
Turning the NHS into a Covid service was always going to end in catastrophe, and now the explosion in serious cancers may have a more serious long-term effect than the virus itself, says top cancer doctor Karol Sikora.
There is no evidence that shielding benefited vulnerable people during the Covid pandemic, according to a study, with the high rate of in-hospital transmission blamed for the failure of the policy.
Retired Associate Professor of Physics Dr. Ralph Alexander is not impressed with the latest climate disasters report from CRED, which he says egregiously manipulates the data to remove the most inconvenient trends.
Responding to a GB News interview with Dr Tom Jefferson, UKHSA claims that the evidence shows masks work. But that conflicts not only with the findings of the Cochrane Review but also with its own published evidence.
The 2015 Zika panic, like the 2020 Covid panic, resulted in extreme global over-reaction. Yet when the smoke cleared it turned out there was no microcephaly epidemic. But the world just moved on and forgot.
By insisting on corrections to the Cochrane review of masks and claiming “victory” the New York Times is trying to subvert the whole scientific process while launching a personal attack on one of the authors.
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