COVID Vaccines: What Medical People Say Amongst Themselves
Enthusiastic support is counterbalanced by concerns about Dr. Fauci, improper inoculation techniques, and unknown long term consequences.
Unity or Division? Individual Choice or State Coercion?
Prominent artist promotes brave, big-hearted petition addressed to Singapore’s Prime Minister.
COVID News You May Have Missed
Lockdowns and vaccine coercion were protested around the world this weekend, as doctors sang the praises of Ivermectin.
World Ivermectin Day
ICU doctors say a safe, generic drug can prevent COVID-19. Why aren’t we using it?
8 Ways in Which COVID Vaccines Are New
Should we trust vaccines that are unprecedented in so many respects?
COVID-19 Vaccines & Forbidden Questions
Is the public good guiding government decisions? It doesn’t look like it.
Israel Not Tracking Post Vaccine Problems
Every health system in the world should be keenly interested in Israel’s adverse vaccine reactions. But the data doesn’t exist.
Israeli Doctors Against COVID Vaccines for Kids
Highly qualified medical professionals have been objecting for months.
Doctor Resigns Over Lack of Informed Consent
Israeli committee decides pregnant women don’t need to be told COVID vaccine risk is wholly unknown.
Francis Christian, Medical Hero
Saskatchewan surgeon insists on informed consent prior to children receiving COVID-19 vaccines. Health authority fires him before an investigation has even begun.
WHO: Most Kids Shouldn’t Get COVID Vaccines
Parents are urged to vaccinate their kids. They aren’t told the World Health Organization disagrees.
Canadians Aren’t Being Told About Vaccine Risks
Guest post by a recently retired doctor.
ICU Doctors Censored By Big Tech
When the grandkids ask Big Tech titans what role they played during the 2020 pandemic, the real answer will be: They silenced debate. They prevented doctors from being heard.
Delete that Tweet! Twitter Censors Journalism
Intellectual conformity leads nowhere good. Twitter has no business taking sides in any debate about how to treat any disease.
CDC Revises Vaccine Screener 9 Times in 6 Months
2-page COVID vaccine screening form is now 9 pages long – and was updated three times in May alone.
A COVID Stricken Doctor, an Air Ambulance & Ivermectin
When a hospital refused to treat her husband with Ivermectin, a wife physician had him flown to another facility.
Doctors, Lawyers & COVID
Hospital refuses to treat ICU patient with Ivermectin. Family hires a lawyer, secures a court order, and she recovers.
Doctors Shout from the Rooftops About COVID Miracle Drug
Accomplished, experienced ICU doctors say Ivermectin can end the global pandemic. But health authorities don’t want to hear about it, and journalists won’t report it.
Remember When N95 Masks Were Anti-Science?
Ontario, Canada began by properly protecting medical staff from COVID infection. Citing the WHO, it then reversed course.
WHO Quietly Corrects Its Own Misinformation
Dissident scientists spent a year convincing the World Health Organization that the virus that causes COVID-19 spreads through the air.
Engineered Viruses: Not a New Concern
The pandemic may well be linked to lab experiments in China. A thorough investigation is warranted.
Natural Virus or Lab Experiment Gone Wrong?
Seasoned science journalist sparks new round of debate.
Facebook Fact Checks Are Rubbish: Reading List
The world’s largest censorship machine relies on partisan fact checkers. The results are absurd.
US Senator to Facebook: Kill Free Speech Now
Intelligence Committee chairman targets private companies.
Weaponizing Scientific Expertise
Activist scientists have appointed themselves arbiters of who’s entitled to protest and who isn’t.
Many Frontline Workers Decline COVID Vaccines
Concerns mustn’t be swept under the carpet.
Facebook, Fact-checkers & Medical Debate
When group think masquerades as ‘fact-checking.’
What We Know About UK Vaccine Reactions
460 people have died after receiving COVID-19 vaccines.
China: Land of the Anal Swab
Travelers to China are now subject to anal penetration by the authorities.
Who Died After Receiving COVID Vaccines?
966 post-vaccine deaths have been reported to the CDC.
Biogen’s Superspreader Conference: One Year Later
Boston biotech conference likely infected hundreds of thousands of people.
What the Swedish Doctor Said 6 Months Ago
Be careful of your words, lest the future make a fool of you.
What Canada’s Top Health Official Said A Year Ago
Theresa Tam repeatedly said the risk was low & COVID cases would be rare. She naively trusted China & relied on the WHO. 20,000 Canadians are now dead.
Veterans’ Home Bosses Banned Face Masks, 200 People Died
New Jersey officials waged an aggressive, anti-mask campaign against nursing home staff & ambulance crews.
The Story of America’s First COVID-19 Hotspot
Did this nursing home fail in its duties? Or did authorities do too much to hinder it – and too little to help?
We Don’t Know if COVID Vaccines Are Safe
Let us be adults. Let us be honest. At this stage, no one knows what will happen when COVID vaccines are given to millions of people.
Vaccines, Legal Liability & Learning from History
Governments are shielding vaccine manufacturers from lawsuits.
Vaccines & Informed Consent
Adverse reactions to a 2009 swine flu vaccine profoundly harmed a small minority of those who received it.
Checking Your Blood Oxygen
Consider adding an oximeter to your pandemic medicine cabinet.
Eastern Europe’s COVID Woes
While many of these nations skipped the first wave, they’re struggling now.
Record-Breaking COVID Deaths
April 17th was the worst day for reported COVID deaths globally. Until the past two weeks. We’ve now blown past that record seven times.
Money, Medications & COVID
Experts with fewer financial ties to drug companies are noticeably more supportive of an inexpensive, off-patent drug.
COVID: Worries, Weariness & Humility
We don’t know what’s coming next – and the past three months are not a reliable predictor.
Pandemic Bungling Undercuts UN Goals
German study calls public transit ‘the big loser.’
Vaccines Are Complicated
Eager as we are for a COVID vaccine, we need to be realistic about possible harms – and a plausible timeline.
Is COVID Responsible for Only 6% of US Deaths?
When someone commits suicide, comorbidities on their death certificate don’t mean they didn’t kill themselves.
Davos and COVID-19
While our ‘thought leaders’ worried about the elderly in the year 2050, a virus that would kill hundreds of thousands of elderly people this year was spreading like wildfire.
Blog Returns Sept. 23
I’m deep diving into a new research project. There’s lots to read and lots to learn.
Science, Skepticism, and Irony
An impressive new book about the shortcomings of scientific research is inadvertently ironic.
Will Skyscrapers Survive COVID?
Tall buildings, dependent on elevators, have become precarious investments.
Hydroxychloroquine & the Judgment of History
How a safe, well-understood malaria drug was demonized as a COVID-19 treatment. Because a politician said good things about it.
A Few Months of Hindsight
Journalist George Gilder declared the pandemic over in April. Mathematician Isaac Ben-Israel insisted the virus would burn out everywhere 70 days after it began.
Funerals Have Spiked in Numerous Nations
Across the globe, many more funerals are being held this year than normal.
WHO: Disinformation from the Top
The head of the WHO isn’t annoyed his organization learned about the coronavirus from third parties. He isn’t angry it had to ask China for info more than once. In fact, he’s been covering for China.
WHO Now Says China Didn’t Report Coronavirus – Corrects Timeline
After implying for months that China followed international rules, the World Health Organization backtracks.
Secrecy & Stonewalling: China and SARS 1.0
China gave the WHO permission to send in investigators, but wouldn’t allow them near the affected area after they’d arrived. They departed empty-handed, two weeks later.
Where Are COVID Deaths Rising?
Chile, Peru, Brazil, and Mexico have experienced dramatic increases. So have New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts.
40 Days in Brazil
Forty thousand Brazilians have died of the coronavirus in the past 40 days.
Financial Conflicts & the Retracted COVID Research
Lead author, paid by drug companies, gives the all-clear to products those companies sell. World’s leading medical journal fails transparency test.
Retracted Papers Written by Journal VIP
The lead author of two retracted COVID-19 papers is editor-in-chief of an Elsevier medical journal.
What Went Wrong in Massachusetts?
State hit disproportionately hard by the coronavirus.
Staggering Death Rate in 7 US States
American deaths per million equal or exceed Europe’s worst-hit nations in several locales.
This Blog Will Return May 20th
In the interim, I recommend this brilliant essay on what the coronavirus has taught us.
Civil Liberties, the Economy & Typhoid Mary
Let us not be cavalier about the coronavirus. Let us pay proper respect to the dead.
Inside America’s Hospitals
The coronavirus is straining the healthcare systems of the richest nations in the world.
How NYC’s Leaders Betrayed the Public
Medical bureaucrats wrapped themselves in the cloak of science. They said the battle was against paranoia, misinformation & stigma. Thousands have now perished.
Why Homemade Masks Make Sense
Coronavirus deaths follow choir practice. A grassroots, homemade-masks-for-all movement gathers steam.
Losing Doctors on the Battlefield
176 61 physicians have died in Italy. They’re also dying in France, Indonesia, and the Philippines.
Protect Hospital Staff, Or Healthcare Collapses
Doctors on the front lines are shouting from the rooftops.
Italy’s Hospital Meltdown
Coronavirus has turned hospitals into war zones, say Italian doctors.
So You Thinks SARS Was No Big Deal (Part 1)
Canada was the only country outside Asia in which people died from the SARS coronavirus. A doctor and two nurses were among its victims. All three were in their 50s.
Coronavirus Math: The Number I’m Watching
How are different countries coping? What is the case fatality rate?
When Is A Pandemic Not A Pandemic?
The World Health Organization is playing games.
Diabetes, Doctors & Real World Results
Some people are ‘curing’ their Type 2 diabetes by changing what they eat.
Mice, Medical Research & the Media
Reputable media outlets routinely mislead the public when reporting the latest scientific discoveries.
Canada’s Carbon Tax Will Kill People
‘Winter mortality is lower when the price of heating is lower’: new research report.
Vaccines & the Globe’s Most Vulnerable
Tourists who eschew vaccination are reintroducing disease to less affluent countries.
Butter, Cream & Grains of Salt
Peer-reviewed science can be found to support nearly every position.
What the Thai Cave Rescue Teaches Us About Nature
Humans make things safe, clean, and healthy.
Is Tomato Soup Good for You?
‘Healthy’ is now being defined in radically different ways, by different interest groups.
Eat Your Veggies (With Lots of Butter)
In the low-carb universe, vegetables are served with lots of butter, mayonnaise, and hollandaise.
Perverse Scientific Incentives
There are structural reasons for the low quality of much scientific research.
Science is Not Truth
We need to lose our naivete. Many scientific findings are neither crisp nor clear.
Is Fruit Good for You?
Fruit may be natural, but its sugar content has increased due to selective breeding.
Chicken Wings & Potato Skins: My New Health Food
If fat were the villain we’ve been told it is, I should have gained 40 pounds.
Defining High Blood Pressure
Changing definitions of ‘normal’ blood pressure means more people are coping with drug side effects.
Bogus Blood Pressure Readings
Doctors and nurses rarely follow the rules when collecting important info about our health.
Medical Flip-Flops
Standard medical practice is often pointless, risky – and a waste of money.
Unethical Behaviour at the American Heart Association
The American Heart Association didn’t bother to replicate pivotal research before it told the public to change its behaviour. The result was an uncontrolled public health experiment.
About That French Paradox
When scientists began believing that high fat diets & heart disease went together, this wasn’t true in 8 European countries.
When Government Makes You Fat
After the high-carbohydrate Food Pyramid was introduced, diabetes shot through the roof.
Obesity, Diet Pills & Death
Whether it’s climate science or medical science, a fake crisis leads to bad decisions that harm real people.
Suddenly Sick: The Foibles of Medical Science
Climate science and medical science have things in common. Including suspect behaviour on the part of the United Nations.