News Round-Up
5 May 2025
A study in the BMJ has linked excess deaths with COVID-19 vaccines and the Daily Telegraph has featured it on its front page. Are people slowly waking up to what was done to them?
Real 'pandemic preparedness' doesn't mean obsessive surveillance before locking down and rolling out a vaccine. It means helping people build healthy and resilient immune systems in their daily lives, says Dr David Bell.
The COVID-19 vaccine pile-on in leading scientific journals continues apace. Dr Raphael Lataster summarises seven articles showing Covid vaccine harms that got past the censors.
Errors in the pharmaceutical supply chain can harm, even kill patients if safety checks and protocols are not in place. Yet for Covid vaccines, MHRA cut corners and dropped inspections, says Hedley Rees.
What's behind the current whooping cough outbreak? Dr. Maggie Cooper looks at the data and finds a switch in vaccines 20 years ago may be the culprit.
Elon Musk's endorsement of mRNA technology leaves many of his fans perplexed. What they don't appear to realise is Musk is part of the mRNA project and has a direct commercial stake in it.
"Healthcare is much more corrupt than people think, and industry money goes everywhere, to politicians, medical journals, newspapers etc.," says Cochrane co-founder Professor Peter Gøtzsche.
The Human Medicines Regulations state that celebrity endorsement of drugs is not allowed. So why are TV doctors in the pay of AstraZeneca promoting vaccines in the media, ask Tom Jefferson and Carl Heneghan.
Prof Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson summarise what they've learned about the pharmacokinetics – how the body interacts with a drug – of the Pfizer vaccine and the 15 questions it leaves them with.
A new draft of the WHO Pandemic Agreement was released at the end of April. Dr Thi Thuy Van Dinh and Dr David Bell have read it (so you don't have to) and say it's still full of problems.
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