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How Should Sceptics Respond to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine?
The people who've been red-pilled by the response of their governments and the MSM to the pandemic think those same discredited authorities are crying wolf about Vladimir Putin. But they're wrong. Putin really is a wolf.
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Rishi Sunak Must Stop the Taxman Closing Viable Businesses Struggling Due to Government Pandemic Policy
We now face the entirely likely and illogical situation whereby HMRC will attempt to close businesses which may have a Government-backed loan, the cost to the taxpayer of which may be higher than the actual debt itself.
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The Overwhelming Importance of Geography in Explaining Covid Mortality
Of the 15 countries with zero or negative excess mortality, no less than 14 are islands. After two years of lockdowns, it seems the best strategy for dealing with Covid is… be a small country with few land borders.
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The Netherlands’ Omicron Lockdown was a Complete Failure
The Netherlands went back into lockdown from 18th December to 26th January. This policy was a complete failure: infections began rising steeply during the lockdown, and continued rising steeply after it ended.
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Panic Merchants, Be Gone… Covid is Just Another Virus
Models are neither science nor data but a set of assumptions that generate their own tautological conclusions. More than a war on the virus, lockdowns proved to be a war on the poor to protect the laptop class.
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Scientists Reluctant to Study Vaccine Side Effects, Notes Top Journal
A surprisingly candid report in the journal Science notes that researchers are reluctant to study vaccine side effects for fear of causing vaccine hesitancy. “Everyone is tiptoeing around it," one researcher said.
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How I Came to Need Imaginary Friends After Two Long Years of This Dystopian Nightmare of Masks, Tests and Distancing
We are now perhaps emerging blinking into a life without Covid rules and yet the masks and their wearers are still everywhere. The natural world is unchanged, but the human world is still dystopian.
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Australia: Another Country Where Covid Infections and Deaths Have Been Far Higher Since the Vaccine Rollout
Why have infections, ICU admissions and deaths been hugely higher in Australia after the vaccine rollout than before? What does this tell us about the efficacy of the vaccines?
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First Do No Harm: Unintended Consequences of Vaccinating Children Against COVID-19
It is difficult to imagine a scenario where caution would be more necessary than vaccinating healthy children against an illness that poses such a low risk of serious illness and death to them.
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Publisher Retracts 24 Scientific Papers for Being “Nonsensical” – What Happened to Peer Review?
Once more, a 'peer-reviewed' journal has to retract a bunch of papers because they are literally nonsense – generated by a computer algorithm. Why aren't publishers getting on top of this discreditable problem?
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