Like other aspects of medicine, public health is about dealing with life and death. In the international sphere, this involves big numbers. If, as a group, a few million dollars is allocated here, it may save thousands of lives. Actual …
Press Silent on Shut Down of UK Government’s Ethics Committee
This article was coauthored with Ben Kinglsey
Picture a catastrophic oil spill environmental disaster. Imagine now that official minutes of meetings record that the Chief Executive Officer had received internal reports from the oil company’s own safety committee warning of …
Independent Voices Sing in Symphony
One of my earliest memories of classical music is accompanying my father and older brother to hear Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony when I was 7. The symphony conveyed pure magic, filling my head with sonorous themes and exquisite harmonies, permeating the …
Living Everywhere in a Carceral Surveillance State
If you live in a Chinese city, or even in London, you are probably so used to surveillance cameras all around you – on lamp posts, the corners of buildings, and so on – that you would hardly bat an …
Why Does the WHO Make False Claims Regarding Proposals to Seize States’ Sovereignty?
The Director General (DG) of the World Health Organization (WHO) states:
No country will cede any sovereignty to WHO,
referring to the WHO’s new pandemic agreement and proposed amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR), currently being negotiated. His statements …
These Amendments Would Open the Door to a Dangerous Global Health Bureaucracy
The Covid pandemic gave the World Health Organisation and its partners unprecedented visibility and a tremendous amount of “soft” power to shape public health law and policies across the world. Over the past year or so, the WHO has been …
It’s Not Too Early to Name the Decade
The New Yorker is running a contest. What should we call our era? Some possible candidates: Terrible Twenties, the Age of Emergency, Cold War II, the Omnishambles, the Great Burning, and the Assholocene.
Try as I might, I cannot understand …
Human Rights Discarded at the Gates of Hell
The following is an excerpt from Dr. Ramesh Thakur’s book, Our Enemy, the Government: How Covid Enabled the Expansion and Abuse of State Power.
Dr Chris Williams, of Public Health Wales, solemnly told the BBC: “Every time you stop and …
Did Cochrane’s Masks Study Get it Wrong?
Naomi Oreskes, well-known science historian and co-author of Merchants of Doubt, argues that the public was “misled” by the 2023 Cochrane review, which concluded that wearing a face mask “probably makes little or no difference” in preventing SARS-CoV-2 transmission.
In …
The Sequencing Data Just Went Missing
US-based genomics scientist Kevin McKernan says he has lost an estimated US $200,000 worth of research data after his account on file hosting service MEGA was deleted overnight.
It appears that McKernan’s account was deleted by MEGA in response to …
The Grateful Dead Succumbed to Coronamania, but We Didn’t Conform
I’ve played and have enjoyed hearing others—who are better at it—play live music.
I’ve seen well over 100 shows, including Springsteen (for $6 in 1977), Wilco, Neil Young, Van Morrison, Joan Armatrading, The Pogues, Queen Ida, Lucinda Williams, Pat Metheny, Habib …
EUA Countermeasures Are Neither Investigational nor Experimental
“Judge, I was forced to take an experimental vaccine!”
Kaiser Permanente in CA is getting sued:
Here is another example – Roberts v Shriners. The case cites correct law conserning EUA (360bbb):
Then states that “FDA defines the drugs at …
The Crazy Covid Copulation Exemption
Covid lockdowns spurred an endless cornucopia of official hypocrisy. Top politicians brazenly violated the restrictions they inflicted on everyone else. But perhaps the most absurd aspect of the pandemic was the endless exemptions that officialdom concocted.
Politicians and bureaucrats anointed …
To Whom Should the Right of Speech Belong?
On Sunday, December 17, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford, will debate Dr. Kate Klonick, Associate Professor of Law at St. John’s University Law School, on whether Judge Terry Doughty’s July 4 injunction restricting the Biden Administration’s communications with social media …
The Global Wave of Childhood Pneumonia
The news that Northern China is dealing with a mystery pneumonia outbreak in children was headlined in many news outlets worldwide. Chinese health officials failed to alert the world about a former novel coronavirus outbreak in 2003 (SARS) and 2019 …