News Round-Up

• “The Dangers of the Biden Pandemic Plan” – Dr. Jay Bhattacharya warns in Brownstone that President Biden’s pandemic plan will effectively guarantee that lockdowns will return to the U.S. in the event of a new pandemic.
• “We are paying an enormous price for the bad science behind Covid lockdowns” – Experts used early poor-quality studies to feed into the general mania that supported restrictions, write Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson in the Telegraph.
• “Covid Lockdowns Disqualify Trump in 2024” – “Fifteen days to stop the spread” turned into an eternity, says Justin Hart in the Wall Street Journal.
• “Unvaccinated GP who refused to wear a mask fights dismissal” – Story in the Mail on Dr. Angela Musso, who was dismissed from Cutlers Hill Surgery in April last year because she did not wear a mask due to anxiety.
• “‘A very worrying scenario’: Internal documents on India COVID-19 vaccine raise troubling questions about approval process” – A STAT News review of documents on Bharat Biotech’s COVID-19 vaccine finds that regulators endorsed the vaccine despite discrepancies in the number of enrollees and other serious problems.
• “The SARS-CoV-2 Transmission Riddle – Part 13 The role of airborne transmission” – Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson say the evidence for airborne transmission is weaker than you might think.
• “The Under Reporting Factor in VAERS” – Unacceptable Jessica on a neat new way to calculate the URF from a comparison of V-Safe and VAERS report numbers.
• “Tis the season to be worried” – Dr. Roger Watson says it’s that time of year again: “The John Lewis advert is out, selection boxes are on the shelves in Tesco, and the NHS is heading for its annual winter crisis. By all accounts we are in for a bumper one this year – the worst crisis ever. So at least that’s something to look forward to.”
• ““Lies My Government Told Me”” – Dr. Robert Malone publishes an excerpt from his book which he is pleased to report is finally published as an E-book.
• “‘SafeBlood’ Hardliners Want to Set Up Unvaccinated Blood Banks” – Vice reports medics saying that growing numbers of people are asking for transfusions of unvaxxed blood.
• “Internal Email Exposes Shocking Rise in NICU Babies and Fetal Death Just Months After Rollout” – Watch a nurse tell Del Bigtree on the HighWire about a disturbing trend in her hospital.
• “Germany’s Compounding Energy Woes: Even Wind Power Industry Is ‘Sliding into Crisis’” – “Incalculable” record raw material prices, supply chain problems and a lack of profitability are cited, says Pierre Gosselin in WUWT.
• “Climate change is ‘driving the spillover of pathogens from bats’” – The Mail reports on a ludicrous research paper that blends Covid gobbledegook with climate gobbledegook to serve up the perfect canard.
• “Nationwide Cold Wave Continues with Numerous Low Temperature Records Likely to Be Set… Intense Great Lakes Snow Event on The Way” – Paul Dorian in WUWT says the nationwide cold wave in the U.S. will continue right through the upcoming weekend.
• “Full Ukrainian victory over Russia unlikely, warns top U.S. general” – Army General Mark Milley, Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, cautioned that Russia still has significant combat power, according to the Telegraph.
• “Elon Musk, the man with technocracy in his blood” – Could Musk be waking up to the megalomania of a new world order, asks Niall McCrae in TCW Defending Freedom.
• “Brand Purpose, ESG & CSR. Salvation of the planet or tomorrow’s tyrannies?” – Chris Bullick describes his recent candid survey showing consumer backlash against tedious woke advertising.
• “Ticketing site wages ‘campaign of cancellation’ against gender-critical events” – Eventbrite has been accused of conducting a “campaign of cancellation” against women after pulling tickets for a string of gender-critical events over fears they could spread “hateful” views, the Telegraph reports.
• “There is no point to the Tories if all they do is surrender to the Left” – Why should the British public back a visionless party that no longer seems to believe in anything, asks Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
• “Kemi Badenoch: Beware the new authoritarians” – Speaking at the Cato Institute, the International Trade Secretary and Minister for Women and Equalities has warned of the rise of “new authoritarians” who “want to stop everything and ban everything”, reports UnHerd.
• “‘Its decolonising nonsense’: Universities minister hits out at woke courses for students” – New universities minister Robert Halfon said inserting critical race theory into courses such as computing and maths was not “real social justice”, in his first major speech in the job, according to the Mail. Yes, Robert, but what are you going to do about it?
• “Freedom of speech and the academic rigour it supports have been dealt a catastrophic blow… This will turn our universities into factories for indoctrination” – Frank Furedi in the Mail lambasts the QAA advice that all universities should ‘decolonise’ their curriculums and include teaching on concepts such as ‘white supremacy’ in courses such as classics.
• “In propagating this cult, they are illustrating the fact that their minds have been colonised by American grievance studies departments!” – Watch Toby talk to GB News‘s Mark Steyn about universities being advised to ‘decolonise’ subjects like maths and science.

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