Modelling and false assumptions have led to an inflated number Dr Clare Craig Key points The government said fortification would “help avoid around 200” neural tube defects a year and that “hundreds more babies will be born healthy”. Of those 31, about 28 would be children living with disability and 3 are fatal cases that […]
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The NHS’s folic acid rewrite
What an FOI revealed Dr Clare Craig The NHS has altered its online advice as to who must avoid folic acid right before it is mandated in our staple foods. Internal records show a warning to people on dialysis was cut because staff found it “confusing”. A warning that people with heart stents must avoid […]
Some people should avoid folic acid but how?
Government response to folic acid petition Dr Clare Craig There have been two parliamentary petitions regarding folic acid. Both have received a response. The NHS advises many people to avoid folic acid. The government claims people can avoid it if they need to. That claim is provably untrue and the adverse effects of medicating the […]
Why can’t Public Health U-turn?
When experts recommended removal of fortifications from flour – nothing happened Dr Clare Craig The last time public health in the UK moved to keep flour pure was 1875. Ever since, there has been a push to add more and more to it. A serving scientist employed by Unilever was handed the chair of a […]
Prostate cancer: Why Jeremy Clarkson was well meaning but wrong
Don’t readily gamble when the consequence is impotence and incontinence Dr Clare Craig Introduction In June 2026, Jeremy Clarkson announced that he was in remission from prostate cancer and called himself the luckiest man alive. An aggressive tumour had been caught early the previous year, and a follow-up PSA test had come back clear. He […]
Vaccines are not a panacea
The shingles vaccine has not cured dementia Dr Clare Craig Vaccines are not a panacea The shingles vaccine has not cured dementia Over the past month, four studies have been read as showing that the shingles vaccine prevents, or even reverses, dementia. A national newspaper has turned that reading into advice. The advice is to […]
The Forgotten Medicine for ‘Russian Influenza’
Today historians debate whether Russian influenza (1889-1891) was caused by influenza virus or coronavirus. That is the wrong question. The more important question is what contemporary observers were saying about the medicines.
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What you need to know about Folic Acid Part Three: Folic Acid Is Not Folate
Vitamin B9 is benign, folic acid is not Dr Clare Craig In the previous article I explained how the body only needs 100 micrograms of folate to replace daily losses. The claimed recommended daily allowance of 400 micrograms a day only came about once industry was involved in setting the allowance. This higher level is […]
What you need to know about Folic Acid Part Two: How 100 Micrograms Became 400
The dose that was doubled, and then doubled again Dr Clare Craig Ask almost any doctor how much folate an adult needs to eat and the answer will be four hundred micrograms per day. That figure is printed on supplement bottles, prenatal tablets, cereal boxes and government leaflets the world over, and it is repeated […]
What you need to know about Folic Acid Part One: The Deficiency That Wasn’t
No one needs folic acid fortification Dr Clare Craig In 1875, Parliament made it a criminal offence to adulterate flour. The Sale of Food and Drugs Act of that year was written in answer to a scandal that had been building for decades. Bakers bulked out their flour with alum, chalk and plaster of Paris, […]
Human to human hantavirus
The evidence does not match the alarm Dr Clare Craig When severe pneumonia aboard the MV Hondius was attributed to hantavirus this month, the reporting moved quickly from a handful of sick passengers to the claim that a rodent-borne virus had begun spreading efficiently from person to person. There were comparisons with the first weeks […]
From Fantasy to Historical Fact in Two Moves
Office for Statistics Regulation letter re Inquiry Dr Clare Craig The first move is to build a mathematical model based on assumptions that cannot be verified and are often highly contestable. The second is to present the model’s output in an official report in a form that ordinary readers will naturally interpret as an established […]
MHRA Have Evidence of Harm
MHRA are not telling anyone, but you can Cheryl Grainger Way back in 2022, Dame June Raine the now retired CEO of MHRA, did a presentation in Wales covering the 4 “pillars” of their safety monitoring. She mentioned that in the Yellow Card Vaccine MONITOR (YCVM), there were over 2,000 pregnant women and she was […]
The things you have to do to be heard
What a new nursing home study hides Dr Clare Craig A new paper in Medical Research Archives examines all-cause mortality across 15,000 US nursing homes from May 2022 to June 2023, stratified by vaccination status. The authors – Denhaerynck, Mead and Wolfinger – use forward and reverse lag models to show that mortality rose following […]
Charity statement ahead of Inquiry’s report on vaccines and treatments
Today the Inquiry releases its module 4 report It is a difficult day today for the vaccine injured who have struggled to be heard. The following statement is from Caroline Pover who is the chair of trustees at the charity UKCV family. The charity will also be making a statement in response to the report. COVID […]
Six Saved Babies. What About the Seventy Who Died?
In the only trial in healthy women, for every neural tube defect prevented, NINE babies were lost Dr Clare Craig For nearly three decades we have been told a reassuring story. Synthetic folic acid was added to food to prevent neural tube defects – spina bifida and anencephaly (where the brain does not form properly). […]
The Numerator Was Nonsense and the Devil Is in the Denominator
How New York City’s covid graphs misled the world Dr Clare Craig 11 March 2026 In January 2022, New York City published graphs that appeared to shatter claims the vaccines were not the saviour that had been promised and settle the covid vaccine debate for good. Almost all cases, hospitalisations, and deaths were shown to […]
