Anti-vaccine disinformation, conspiracy theories, and fake news can often be considered counternarratives—expressions of resistance.2223 In such cases, they can be born from and fed by distrust in authorities and institutions, expressions of resistance to hegemonic ideologies and rules.23 Hegemonic legislation that could be seen as criminalising the right to express legitimate worries or pose questions would only…
Month: March 2021
Stand for Health Freedom reports “CDC Data Disaster”
In March 2020, the CDC abruptly changed how death certificates were recorded. While this might seem like a mere formality, the CDC only made this change for one type of death — COVID-19 — and circumvented multiple federal laws to do so. Join our panel of experts — researchers, doctors, lawyers, medical ethicists, educators and…
Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance reports “Review of the Emerging Evidence Demonstrating the Efficacy of Ivermectin in the Prophylaxis and Treatment of COVID-19”
In March 2020, the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC) was created and led by Professor Paul E. Marik to continuously review the rapidly emerging basic science, translational, and clinical data to develop a treatment protocol for COVID-19. The FLCCC then recently discovered thativermectin, an anti-parasitic medicine, has highly potent anti-viral and anti-inflammatory properties…
Swiss Policy Research reports “Are Face Masks Effective? The Evidence.”
An overview of the current evidence regarding the effectiveness of face masks. So far, most studies found little to no evidence for the effectiveness of cloth face masks in the general population, neither as personal protective equipment nor as a source control. A May 2020 meta-study on pandemic influenza published by the US CDC found that face…
Wall Street Journal reports “We’ll Have Herd Immunity by April”
Covid cases have dropped 77% in six weeks. Experts should level with the public about the good news. Amid the dire Covid warnings, one crucial fact has been largely ignored: Cases are down 77% over the past six weeks. If a medication slashed cases by 77%, we’d call it a miracle pill. Why is the…
Business Insider reports “A Johns Hopkins professor predicts the US will reach herd immunity by April, but many experts aren’t so optimistic”
The US’s daily coronavirus cases have declined 65% in the last month — a record drop in the course of the nation’s outbreak. New cases reached an all-time high of 312,000 on January 8. Since then, they’ve fallen to a weekly average of around 73,000 per day. Dr. Martin Makary, a professor of surgery at…
Wall Street Journal reports “The Censorship Party”
House Democrats use a hearing to target conservative media. Imagine if a pair of Donald Trump’s allies in Congress had sent a letter to cable company CEOs in 2017 blasting CNN and other progressive media outlets and asking why their content is still broadcast. Then imagine that a GOP-run committee in Congress staged a hearing on…