Smoke, mirrors and ghost writers
Smoke and Mirrors in scientific debate. All is not always what it seems and authors are not always who they purport to be.
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UK Covid-19 Public Inquiry – chapter 1
Module 4, report from day 1 of the hearings to which we are not invited. HART was one of a number of groups who were asked to provide detailed witness statements to the Inquiry, only to find we will not be called to give oral evidence. The Inquiry legal team have apparently shared our statements with the Core Participants and indeed with one of their commissioned experts, but have not as yet confirmed whether or not our statements will be available on the Inquiry website.
Preliminary statements from day 1 are not encouraging!
The ghost of Covid Christmas past, present and future
Christmas time seems to have resulted in peak craziness during the covid era. If we want to save Christmas future we need to look at Christmas past.
Pick of the Week 30th November
More from the UK Inquiry, vaccine safety issues and a legal case in Malaysia.
Open Letter To Right Honourable Kemi Badenoch
Kemi Badenoch has stated that ‘It’s time to tell the truth’. One hundred and thirty health professionals write to ask her to live up to her promise and talk about vaccine safety.
Pick of the Week – 1st November
This week’s selection includes use of DNACPR notices on the elderly and disabled leading to a police investigation in Scotland.
Meanwhile in the US, workers have won compensation for job losses due to vaccine mandates, and a health board in Idaho has voted to pull Covid-19 vaccines from their health clinics.
Canada hits rock bottom, with so-called ‘assisted dying’ aka ‘state-endorsed killing’ of a young man with a devastating vaccine injury. If you haven’t yet written to your MP about the End of Life Bill coming back to Westminster on 22nd November, now is the moment.
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill had its frist reading on 16th October. Yhe Welsh parliament have voted against it. An open leeter to the Prime Minister is included in this article.
Pick of the week – 27th August
PHEIC mpox call; will Annie’s Law really help: failure to recall AstrraZeneca and a Novavax children’s trial.
An Open Letter to yet another Prime Minister
An open letter to Sir Keir Starmer about vaccine safety. Will he continue the mistakes and obfuscation of the previous government or will he offer change?
Pick of the week – 20th August 2024
Items on mpox, censorship, and harrowing footage on care home deaths reported in the Scottish COVID-19 Inquiry
Informed Consent: Ethical Principles of Medicine
It is a basic requirement in medicine that before any procedure, a screening intervention or treatment is undertaken, the individual must consent. To do so, they must be informed of both the benefits and the risks before deciding whether to proceed.
Pick of the Month June 2024:
A few highlighted posts from June 2024
Covid-19: Response and Excess Deaths
You can watch the entire debate on Parliamentary TV archives, Timestamp: 14:33:25. Click on this Timestamp from the pull down menu on the righthand side of the web page.
True story of nursing home deaths
In January of 2021, a tragic story unfolded in Ontario in Roberta Place long term care home which had 137 beds and 130 residents. A covid outbreak was declared when an asymptomatic member of staff tested positive on 8th January 2021. After six weeks, at least 129 residents, 106 staff members had fallen ill and 70 residents died.
Weekly news round up
There can be an overwhelming amount of information crossing you various indie newsfeeds each day. Here we have selected a few articles that we think worthy of your attention.
State overreach in medical decisions
Two weeks ago, a 19-year-old young woman lay in a hospital bed with a court injunction in place that prevented her from giving her own name in a newspaper article. She described being in “a race against time to escape from this system and the certain death it wishes to impose on me.”
Ethical boundaries in medical decision-making can be blurred by circumstances
An analysis of the spatial characteristics of deaths during the spring 2020 wave in Northern Italy was carried out by him along with a Panda colleague; this suggested that it looked nothing like a spreading virus, and more like the sudden imposition of a policy response.
Have we overcalled the excess death concern?
There is much confusion about excess deaths currently with different government bodies contradicting each other about the extent of the problem. The ONS use a baseline which includes 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021 and 2022 as years with which to calculate expected deaths. Despite this clearly elevated “normal” they have reported excess mortality for most weeks of this year.
