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An Interview With Philippe Lemoine
Philippe Lemoine’s articles on the pandemic are required reading. We asked him about the case against lockdowns, why epidemiological models have fared so poorly, and what Emmanuel Macron should have done last year.
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American Medical Association Advocates Removing Sex From the Public Portion of Birth Certificates
The American Medical Association now advocates removing sex from the public portion of birth certificates. Apparently, recording sex on birth certificates “fails to recognize the medical spectrum of gender identity”.
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Was Lockdown Illegal?
Was lockdown illegal? While the High Court in London rejected Dolan’s case against the Government, lockdown opponents have won important victories in a number of countries, including France, Germany and Spain.
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by Mike Hearn It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or...
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New Paper Claims Lockdowns Do Not Cause More Health Harms Than They Prevent, but It Misses the Big Picture
A new paper claims that lockdowns do not cause more health harms than they prevent. But the harmful long-term effects of lockdown are yet to be quantified, so the authors have little basis for their conclusion.
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COVID-19 Mortality Rate Among Children Is Even Lower Than Previously Thought
A recent study determined that only 25 people aged under 18 died of COVID-19 in England up to February of this year. 76% had a serious underlying health condition. The survival rate in this age-group was 99.995%.
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A Response to Scott Alexander on Lockdowns
The prolific blogger Scott Alexander has written a long post about lockdowns. He claims that "Sweden comes out looking very bad". Yet Sweden saw age-adjusted excess mortality up to week 51 of just 1.7%.
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Editor-in-Chief of The BMJ Says Lab Leak Is “Plausible and Worthy of Serious Inquiry”
Last February, The Lancet published a letter signed by 27 scientists calling the lab leak a "conspiracy theory". Now the Editor-in-Chief of The BMJ has said the lab leak is "plausible and worthy of serious inquiry".
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Reductions in Quality of Life Have Vastly Outweighed COVID-19 Deaths, Say Researchers
Two economists have estimated that the world lost 48 million life-years due to people dying from COVID in 2020. "Every year", they note, "at least twice as many life years are lost due to children dying of diarrhea."
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Authors of Lancet Letter Welcome Investigation Into COVID-19 Origins, but Don’t Apologise for Calling Lab Leak a “Conspiracy Theory”
The authors of the Lancet letter from last February have penned a new letter for that journal. However, they mischaracterise the lab leak theory, and don't apologise for calling it a "conspiracy theory".
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