The frequency with which scientists fabricate and falsify data, or commit other forms of scientific misconduct is a matter of controversy. Many surveys have asked scientists directly whether they have committed or know of a colleague who committed research misconduct, but their results appeared difficult to compare and synthesize. This is the first meta-analysis of…
Category: Scientific Bias
Israeli National News reports “Vaccination in Israel: Challenging mortality figures?”
A front-page article appeared in the FranceSoir newspaper about findings on the Nakim website regarding what some experts are calling “the high mortality caused by the vaccine.” The paper interviews Aix-Marseille University Faculty of Medicine Emerging Infectious and Tropical Diseases Unit’s Dr. Hervé Seligmann and engineer Haim Yativ about their research and data analysis. They claim that Pfizer’s shot…
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…
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…
Mercola reports “Mindless Mask Mandates Likely Do More Harm Than Good”
In breathless tones, NBC News recently reported1 the existence of a business where mask wearing isn’t enforced. In the Naples, Florida, grocery store, hardly anyone wears a mask. The store’s owner, who the news station claimed “is known for his conservative and often controversial viewpoints,” told a reporter he’s never worn a mask in his life…
IPAK reports “COVID-19 Data Collection, Comorbidity & Federal Law: A Historical Retrospective”
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on August 23, 2020, “For 6% of the deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned. For deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19 , on average, there were 2.6 additional conditions or causes per death.” For a nation tormented by restrictive public health…
Stand For Health Freedom reports “The Problems With PCR Testing”
Why Public Officials Shouldn’t Base Restrictions On PCR Tests A massive, worldwide COVID testing campaign has launched, costing countries billions of dollars. But more and more experts are coming forward, claiming that the misuse of PCR (polymerase chain reaction) testing, the most common test for COVID, is resulting in a vast number of false positives….
Corman-Drosten Review Report reports “External peer review of the RTPCR test to detect SARS-CoV-2 reveals 10 major scientific flaws at the molecular and methodological level: consequences for false positive results”
The published RT-qPCR protocol for detection and diagnostics of 2019-nCoV and the manuscript suffer from numerous technical and scientific errors, including insufficient primer design, a problematic and insufficient RT-qPCR protocol, and the absence of an accurate test validation. Neither the presented test nor the manuscript itself fulfils the requirements for an acceptable scientific publication. Further,…
Lifesite News reports “Minnesota lawmakers claim 40-percent inflation in state COVID death numbers”
State senator Scott Jensen, a practicing physician who is calling for an audit, noted that ‘doctors and hospitals have an incentive to, if you will, massage the numbers.’ Two Minnesota lawmakers have called for an investigation of the state’s COVID-19 mortality data after finding that hundreds of recent deaths may have been misattributed to the…
NPR reports “I Felt Fine, But Tested Positive For The Coronavirus. What’s That Really Mean?”
When they called to tell me my COVID-19 test was positive, I thought there must have been a mistake. I felt perfectly fine, and in the long months of the pandemic my husband, Jeff, and I had been behaving the way much of the United States had: hyper-vigilant about where we went and who we…