a successful libel action, minutes from 2021, a lukewarm covid inquiry & some Orwellian ‘newspeak‘
The finale of a landmark libel case against a British tabloid: Maryanne Demasi, Substack, 7th December 2024
This is well worth a quick read if you hadn’t been aware of two HART members, Dr Malcolm Kendrick and Dr Zoë Harcombe who were sueing the Mail on Sunday for a potentially career damaging attack on their honesty and integrity when they wrote questioning the benefits of statins. Journalist Barney Calman had described them as “pernicious liars” who put millions at risk of debilitating heart attacks and strokes, responsible for a “public health catastrophe”. Calman went so far as to suggest there was “a special place in hell for the doctors who claim statins don’t work.” The Mail on Sunday and Mr Calman have had to issue a public apology in court, plus pay all costs and undisclosed damages.
Meeting minutes of the Vaccine Benefit Risk Expert Working Group from the Covid-19 Pandemic – GOV.UK
Taster for a full article to follow. On 9th December 2024, the gov.uk website published minutes from the VBREWG purporting from the top line to be: “Meeting minutes taken from meetings of the Commission on Human Medicines’ Vaccine Benefit Risk Expert Working Group (VBREWG) between 25 August 2020 and 5 May 2023.”
However the minutes are then grouped and cover six batches, the first batch labelled as from 25 August 2020 to 28 November 2020, with the last batch labelled as 10 May 2021 to 25 May 2021 and in fact the last minuted meeting was dated 10th May 2021. They have satirically written under each tranche of minutes “9 December 2024 Transparency data”. I suspect they wouldn’t recognise “transparent” if it came up and hit them in the face. Perhaps they should be renamed “V-Brew-G” and try their hand at organising the proverbial piss up in a brewery?
But joking aside, it really does feel like a Group of witches BREWing up Vaccines in a caldron.
At last, a commission prepared to admit the covid response was pathetic Jeffrey Tucker, TCW, 10th December 2024
Jeffrey Tucker has hopefully read through most of the 550 pages of After Action Review of the Covid-19 Pandemic: The Lessons Learned and a Path Forward, by the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic as assembled by the US House of Representatives. In his view, “we’ve got a solid start with the highest-level government report produced to date”. He especially praises their critique of the vast amount of money wasted on measures which were utterly useless. But he certainly has plenty of criticisms, not least for their praise of ‘Operation Warpspeed’. As he says, “The real trouble with this section is not even its incorrect claim that the vaccine saved lives. The core issue is that the whole point of the lockdowns and all that followed was to create conditions for the release of the countermeasure. The plan from the beginning was: lockdown until vaccination. Praising the goal while criticising the ineffective means diverts the point.”
Doublespeak about assisted suicide Paul Yowell, The Critic, 29th November
Paul Yowell delves into the murky world of who has been driving the campaign for ‘Assisted Dying’ the Orwellian newspeak for ‘Assisted Suicide’. Definitely worth reading.
