After FOX 35 News noticed errors in the state’s report on positivity rates, the Florida Department of Health said that some laboratories have not been reporting negative test result data to the state. Countless labs have reported a 100 percent positivity rate, which means every single person tested was positive. Other labs had very high…
Category: Scientific Bias
Autism Defined presents Dr. Rashid Buttar video series on autism
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…
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…
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…
WSJ reports “Do Lockdowns Save Many Lives? In Most Places, the Data Say No”
The speed with which officials shuttered the economy appears not to be a factor in Covid deaths. Do quick shutdowns work to fight the spread of Covid-19? Joe Malchow, Yinon Weiss and I wanted to find out. We set out to quantify how many deaths were caused by delayed shutdown orders on a state-by-state basis….
Doctor to Orlando Medical News: “Why Increasing Number of Cases of COVID-19 is NOT Bad News”
In marked contrast to measles, shingles, and other infectious disease, “cases” of COVID-19 do NOT require the presence of ANY symptoms whatsoever. Health departments are encouraging everyone and anyone to come in for testing, and each positive test is reported as yet another “new” case of COVID-19! Hence, anyone who has a positive PCR test (the nasal…
JB Handley writes “Lockdown Lunacy 2.0: Second wave? Not even close”
The headlines are filled with dire warnings of a “second wave” and trigger-happy Governors are rolling back regulations to try to stem the tide of new cases. But, is any of it actually true and should we all be worried? No, it’s not a second wave. The COVID-19 virus is on its final legs… https://jbhandleyblog.com/home/2020/6/28/secondwave
Real Clear Politics reports ” How Fear, Groupthink Drove Unnecessary Global Lockdowns”
In the face of a novel virus threat, China clamped down on its citizens. Academics used faulty information to build faulty models. Leaders relied on these faulty models. Dissenting views were suppressed. The media flamed fears and the world panicked. That is the story of what may eventually be known as one of the biggest…