Categories for Data and Modelling
A SAGE of F**kwits
Stephen Andrews overheard an alternative Covid Inquiry hearing and scribbled it down, in which the Chair was heard to suggest a new collective noun for f**kwits – a SAGE.
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Winter Death Toll Worst in 30 Years, Reports the BBC. What, Worse Than in the ‘Pandemic’?
The winter death toll last year in Scotland was the worst in 30 years, the BBC reports. What, worse than during the 'pandemic'? And didn't the vaccines stop everyone dying? These questions are passed over, of course.
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Covid Vaccines Are Driving Excess Deaths, Parliament Told
We turned society upside down for fear of excess deaths from Covid, but today we have substantially more excess deaths, and in younger people, and there is a complete silence, Andrew Bridgen tells the House of Commons.
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Carl Heneghan’s Disgraceful Treatment by the Covid Inquiry
It was Prof Carl Heneghan's turn at the Covid Inquiry on Thursday, and he went ready to provide evidence on the shortcomings of the U.K. Government response. But how he was treated was disgraceful, says Dr Tom Jefferson.
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UKHSA’s 100 Covid Models Are Not Science
UKHSA's 100 Covid models that it says are the evidence base for lockdown are not science, say Professor Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson, who have now gone through and reviewed them all.
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The Myth of ‘Settled Science’
From Covid to climate change, scientific discussion has been stifled by the 'settled science' trope, says Dr Andrew Bamji. As a long-term analyst of medical papers, he knows science is never settled.
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Experts Should Admit When They Don’t Really Know
Too many experts are too quick to override doubts and forge ahead with radical solutions based on over-confident models, says Dr Andrew Bamji. On Covid and climate, a strong dose of humility is in order.
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Cochrane Scandal: We Found No Evidence Masks Worked – and That Had to Be Silenced
Dr. Tom Jefferson and Prof. Carl Heneghan write that their Cochrane review on masks found no evidence they stopped viruses – a politically inconvenient conclusion that had to be silenced, come what may.
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ONS Data Show That the ‘Pandemic of the Unvaccinated’ was Always a Myth
Even on the ONS's own data it's clear that there was never a 'pandemic of the unvaccinated' as the vast majority of deaths since the rollout have always been in the vaccinated, writes Nick Rendell.
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Lancet Study Explodes Myth of Asymptomatic Spread
Asymptomatic people with Covid are only responsible for a tiny fraction of spread, a study in the Lancet has found, exploding a myth that formed a key part of pandemic social distancing policies and fear messaging.
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