Advocates of mask mandates during the pandemic have suppressed the inconvenient truth about face masks: that they achieve no appreciable reduction in viral transmission, writes Dr. Gary Sidley.
Pro-mask crusader Prof Trish Greenhalgh recently plumbed new depths of distortion and misinformation in her mission to force humankind to hide their faces behind strips of cloth or plastic, writes Dr. Gary Sidley.
In our supposedly liberal and transparent democratic country, it seems that it was a group of remote and unnamed scientists, outside of SAGE, who effectively imposed masks on British citizens, writes Dr Gary Sidley.
An article in the journal Nature has praised the use of covert psychological strategies, aka propaganda, to induce compliance during the Covid pandemic and called for a redoubling next time. Why?
We must never forget what our politicians and public health 'experts' inflicted upon us, writes Dr Gary Sidley. If the guilty are not named and shamed, the same totalitarian impositions will be repeated again and again.
Dr Gary Sidley sets out the case for why facemasks against COVID-19 are ineffective and harmful and mask mandates in healthcare settings must be dropped without delay.
In March 2020, Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty said people should not wear face masks because they don't work. Then he said they might work a bit. Then, with no new evidence, he supported making them compulsory. Why?
by Dr. Gary Sidley Never mind that masks don’t work, masking the healthy harms us all socially and psychologically: all...
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