News Round-Up

• “The Economic Disaster of the Pandemic Response” – Jeffrey Tucker in Brownstone with a tour de force of the economic devastation of printing money to pay people not to work.
• “Did Bill Gates write Joe Biden’s pandemic plan?” – The President’s new strategy is straight out of the billionaire’s playbook, says Toby Green in UnHerd.
• “NHS should treat vaccine ‘injuries’ same way it does long Covid by introducing clinics to help affected patients, MP claims” – Sir Christopher Chope, Tory MP for Christchurch in Dorset, called for the health service to help those who’ve become seriously unwell after getting the Covid vaccines, the Mail reports.
• “Worst of Covid is over – but one in 30 people still have it” – The Office for National Statistics estimates that 1.7 million people in England, or 3%, were infected with Covid in the week to October 10th, as the latest wave appears to slow towards a peak, the Mail reports.
• “Cases of BQ.1, BQ.1.1 COVID variants double in U.S. as Europe warns of rise” – U.S. regulators estimated BQ.1 and closely related BQ.1.1 accounted for 16.6% of Covid variants in the country, nearly doubling from last week, as Europe expects them to become dominant in a month, reports Reuters.
• “96 doctors in Quebec call for an end to vaccinating children for Covid” – Steve Kirsch praises some brave Canadian doctors for risking their careers in speaking out.
• “The mask-o-meter of fury” – Russell David argues that masks are a social, psychological, health and environmental catastrophe.
• “A Tale of Two Pills: Media bias in reporting ivermectin and ensitrelvir” – Guy Gin shines a spotlight on the media’s blatant differential treatment of ivermectin and other drugs.
• “The Mysterious Disappearance of Influenza” – Eugyppius offers a review of the reasons to believe that the flu really did vanish during the pandemic.
• “Vaccination Poses Higher Risk of Myocarditis Death for All Age Groups: Study” – People of all ages are at higher risk of death from heart inflammation after COVID-19 vaccination compared with the typical occurrence of myocarditis death, according to a new study from Japan reported in the Epoch Times.
• “Who Owns the CDC?” – The ‘Mid-Western Doctor’ with an overview of the shocking conflicts of loyalties and interests at the U.S. public health bodies.
• “The climate scaremongers: Another example of BBC gross misrepresentation” – Paul Homewood writing in TCW Defending Freedom debunks the BBC’s misrepresentation of ONS data to claim the heatwaves killed over 3,000 people.
• “50-Year U.S. Summer Temperature Trends: All 36 Climate Models Are Too Warm” – Dr. Roy Spencer on WUWT says that given U.S. energy policy depends upon the predictions from climate models, their tendency to produce too much warming should be factored into energy policy planning.
• “Scatterplot Sensitivity” – Willis Eschenbach in WUWT has devised a new way of measuring the greenhouse effect.
• “Wading Through Woke” – Laura Dodsworth lambasts Eastenders for preaching climate change.
• “J.K. Rowling: Sturgeon is deaf to women’s concerns over gender ID” – As a new poll suggests the First Minister is out of step with voters, J.K. Rowling argues in the Times that if any woman suffers under new gender ID rules, the blame will rest with Holyrood.
• “Religious Freedom Nonprofit Claims Chase Bank Ignores Requests to Explain Account Shutdown” – A nonprofit dedicated to promoting religious freedom has had its Chase Bank account closed without being given a reason, according to the nonprofit’s founder and executive director, the Epoch Times reports.
• “Spare us Tom Daley’s naïve trans sermons” – The ludicrous trend of appeasing a tiny minority at the expense of half the population is continuing throughout sport, says Oliver Brown in the Telegraph.
• “‘It’s inclusive, not woke’: Anton Du Beke hits back at claims Strictly has become a ‘box-ticking exercise’” – Will you tell him or shall I? Report from the Mail.
• “Cambridge dons spark new free speech row by boycotting talk by feminist because they believe her views on transgender people are ‘offensive, insulting and hateful’” – In an email to students, Professor Pippa Rogerson, Master of Gonville and Caius has attacked an upcoming college visit by Helen Joyce, a former Britain editor at the Economist, branding her views on transgender people as “offensive, insulting, and hateful to members of our community”.
• “Kathleen Stock: No freedom of speech means I will never work in a British university again” – The philosophy professor, who was cancelled over her comments on trans rights, said institutions have been “captured” by gender ideology, the Telegraph reports.
• “New evidence proves Biden administration pressured Facebook and Twitter to censor Americans” – The Liberty Justice Center reports that data analyst Justin Hart has filed new evidence in his federal lawsuit against Facebook, Twitter, and U.S. President Joe Biden documenting collusion between social media companies and the federal Government to silence Americans.
• “Doctors will no longer encourage gender-curious children to use preferred pronouns or dress as opposite sex under NHS guidelines” – Gender confused children changing names, pronouns and dressing in the clothes of the opposite sex could be discouraged under NHS plans to consider the mental risks of social transitioning, the Mail reports.
• “Ricochet Podcast October 21st 2022” – Toby talks with James Lileks, Rob Long and Steven Hayward about the “not-so-good-kinda-terrible-crash-and-burn week for U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss”.
• “Prepare for a revolt on the Conservative Right” – On almost every issue, from immigration to free speech, the Right has been utterly neglected by the arrogant Tory mainstream, argues Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
• “It’s not anti-Semitic to call this a ‘globalist coup’” – Frank Furedi in Spiked says those slamming Nigel Farage for his comments about Jeremy Hunt are trivialising the fight against racism.
• “Subclinical Myocarditis – New Report from Switzerland – Vital Findings” – Watch Dr. Vinay Prasad present new findings from Switzerland which show subclinical myocarditis in 1 in 36 people vaccinated and evidence of heart injury in all vaccinated people.

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