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 […]

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Pick of the Week

Round up from Dr Ros Jones Book Review- 3/11: Viral Takeover 1st March 2026 A brave new book about the COVIDcrisis by British Journalist and Author Sonia Elijah Robert Malone writes a detailed review of Sonia Elijah’s book in which she has forensically examined all aspects of the 5 years from March 2020. There is […]

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The Lancet Lets it Lie

Lancet choose to ignore errors in paper on myocarditis in children Dr Clare Craig 3 March 2026 Retractions are sometimes necessary, for example in cases of fraud, fabrication, or findings that are demonstrably unreliable, but the scientific record is not meant to be constantly rewritten. Progress normally occurs in a far more gradual way: hypotheses […]

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From Individual Protection to Collective Mission

The Shifting Ethical Centre of Gravity in the Declaration of Helsinki, 1975–2024 Dr Clare Craig February 2026 Introduction The Declaration of Helsinki, first adopted by the World Medical Association  in 1964, has served for sixty years as the foundational document of research ethics. Its central moral commitment—that the rights and interests of the individual research […]

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Inconvenient Deaths

How the return to baseline reveals the hidden excess Dr Clare Craig FRCPath The 2025 death registration data for England is now available. It offers a chance to revisit a benchmark: the ONS 2018 population and mortality projections, published before the pandemic, before lockdown, and before any changes in methodology.  According to those projections, deaths […]

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