by Dr David Bell
Public health relies on trust. Advertising relies on twisting the truth, even deceiving people, to persuade them to buy a product they may not need. Trust is maintained by telling the truth, giving others accurate information…Lancet, COVID-19, and the modeling of fallacy
by Dr David Bell
The Lancet was once a medical journalThere is supposed to be a clear line between medical publishing and propaganda. No less so than in the pages of the Lancet, previously been considered a relative bastion …
The Media Matrix
Media. It surrounds us. We live our lives in it and through it. We structure our lives around it. But it wasn’t always this way. So how did we get here? And where is the media technology that increasingly governs …
Who is responsible for inflicting unethical behavioural-science ‘nudges’ on the British people?
by Gary Sidley, first published on Coronababble
Who is responsible for inflicting unethical behavioural-science ‘nudges’ on the British people?The state’s strategic deployment of fear, shame and peer pressure – or ‘affect, ‘ego’ and ‘norms’ in the language of behavioural …
The Emergence of Neo-Fascism in Public Health
by David Bell
Fascism is the art of hiding the truth behind a facade of wholesome virtue. It is, presumably, as old as humanity. Mussolini just gave it a name – hiding his authoritarian ideas behind the drainage of swamps,…July Open Thread (2022)
Corbett Report members are invited to log in and leave their thoughts in the July Open Thread.
The post July Open Thread (2022) first appeared on The Corbett Report.
Source: The Corbett Report Read the original article here: https://www.corbettreport.com …
Coronavirus Propaganda: Reflections on an Episode of Mass Self-haunting
by Dr. Colin Alexander, Senior Lecturer in Political Communications, Nottingham Trent University, Twitter: @rubberdoll82
19th July 2021 was informally called ‘freedom day’ in England. Wherein, many of the social restrictions that had been put in place purportedly to curb the…Natural immunity is not – and never was – just a right-wing conspiracy theory
by Dr Jonathan Engler
There was never any reason to expect that “natural immunity” – the protection acquired through infection by SARS-COV-2 – should not be similar to that acquired for other respiratory viruses humankind has come into contact with…Essential Questions to WHO on Pandemic Preparedness and Response
In December 2021, the World Health Assembly established an Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB) to draft a new international pandemic preparedness instrument, under the Constitution of the World Health Organization. The stated aim of this instrument is ‘strengthening pandemic prevention, preparedness…
Here’s Why a WHO-Led Pandemic Treaty is a Terrible Idea
by Dr David Thunder, republished with permission from The Freedom Blog
The World Health Organisation has proposed that the international community negotiate and eventually ratify an international “accord” or “treaty” that would effectively consolidate the position of the WHO as…Origins and Trajectories of the COVID Phenomenon
by Nick Hudson, edited by Robert Malone
Originally published on Dr Malone’s Substack
The WHO, Pandemic Preparedness, and the Importance of False Messaging
by Dr David Bell
The World Health Organization (WHO), and the growing pandemic preparedness industry sponsoring it, has faced considerable challenges in maintaining support for its COVID-19 response. It has addressed this difficult situation with simple and uniform messaging. The…Data shenanigans as Sweden misleads its public over vaccination-related mortality data
Which other countries are playing the same game?
In December 2021 Norman Fenton, Martin Neil, Clare Craig, Josh Geutzkow, Joel Smalley, Scott McLachlan and Jonathan Engler published an article casting doubt on the vaccine efficacy implied by the UK’s official …
June Open Thread (2022)
It’s June already and summer is just around the corner, so you know what that means: it’s time for this month’s open thread!
The post June Open Thread (2022) first appeared on The Corbett Report.
Source: The Corbett Report Read …
A picture tells a thousand words: or does it?
This rather beautiful graph was recently tweeted by @EthicalSkeptic.
Some key information from it has been obscured for now to assist with making a particular point.
The graph shows the Covid death rate (ie total Covid-labeled deaths per 100k population …