If you are a parent with a child with Autism, you probably found yourself here while searching for answers to the following questions: What is Autism? Who gets this disease? How the hell did this happen to MY child? Why in the world did it affect MY child? What, if anything, can I do…
Month: July 2020
The Guardian reports “Naomi Klein: How big tech plans to profit from the pandemic”
As the coronavirus continues to kill thousands each day, tech companies are seizing the opportunity to extend their reach and power. Tech provides us with powerful tools, but not every solution is technological. And the trouble with outsourcing key decisions about how to “reimagine” our states and cities to men such as Bill Gates and…
Medium reports on public health’s underlying problem “Vaccine Fundamentalism”
The subject of this piece is an examination of the war metaphor in public health and the fundamental role of vaccination in this effort. It is time for public health to move beyond this out-dated metaphor, revisit its assumptions, and expand the purview upon which it gauges health, thereby better equipping it for the 21st…
ACSH reports “Rethinking COVID-19 Mortality Statistics”
There are two fundamental points often ignored when referring to “the death toll from COVID-19.” There is no evidence or proof offered by any scientist, pathologist, or virologist that confirms COVID-19 as the “cause” of death in the certification process. An expanded definition of a “COVID-19 death” was enacted by the CDC on March 24th,…
Moms Across America to Dr. Peter Hotez: “learn about vaccines”
No matter how many trillions of taxpayer dollars are spent, no matter which communication plan and PR company is hired, no matter which celebrity or esteemed doctor spokesperson is used in a commercial, no matter how many “studies” funded by the industry are presented, these parents will not be swayed, and they will continue to…
Fee reports “Modelers Were ‘Astronomically Wrong’ in COVID-19 Predictions, Says Leading Epidemiologist—and the World Is Paying the Price”
There’s little question that the lockdowns have caused widespread economic, social, and emotional carnage. Evidence that US states that locked down fared better than states that did not is hard to find. Though not yet certain, the COVID-19 pandemic may well turn out to be another example of central planning gone wrong. As I previously noted,…
The Atlantic reports “Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science”
This was published in 2010 but the findings and outcomes are still relevant. Much of what medical researchers conclude in their studies is misleading, exaggerated, or flat-out wrong. So why are doctors—to a striking extent—still drawing upon misinformation in their everyday practice? Dr. John Ioannidis has spent his career challenging his peers by exposing their…
The Telegraph reports “If there is a second wave of Covid, the Swedish approach will have been right all along “
Not going into lockdown was described as “a mad experiment” at the time, but Sweden can look to the winter with less trepidation than most One country can look to the winter with less trepidation than most. Last week, a study suggested that 30 per cent of Swedes have built up immunity to the virus….