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…
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Stand for Health Freedom reports “ACT NOW: Mandatory Masks Endanger Your Health and Your Liberties”
At present, all but a handful of states call for mandatory mask-wearing, and many cities have their own mask ordinances.[1] However, Stand for Health Freedom believes that wearing a mask should be an individual’s choice. A growing contingency of individuals are concerned that mandatory mask policies jeopardize bodily, civil and constitutional rights.
New England Journal of Medicine reports “widespread masking is a reflexive reaction to anxiety over the pandemic.”
We know that wearing a mask outside health care facilities offers little, if any, protection from infection. Public health authorities define a significant exposure to Covid-19 as face-to-face contact within 6 feet with a patient with symptomatic Covid-19 that is sustained for at least a few minutes (and some say more than 10 minutes or…
Penn State reports “Initial COVID-19 infection rate may be 80 times greater than originally reported”
Now, a new study from Penn State estimates that the number of early COVID-19 cases in the U.S. may have been more than 80 times greater and doubled nearly twice as fast as originally believed The implication is that death rates are much lower than initially believed. https://news.psu.edu/story/623797/2020/06/22/research/initial-covid-19-infection-rate-may-be-80-times-greater-originally
The Scientist reports on “Lab-Made Coronavirus Triggers Debate” in 2015
Ralph Baric, an infectious-disease researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, published a study on his team’s efforts to engineer a virus with the surface protein of the SHC014 coronavirus, found in horseshoe bats in China, and the backbone of one that causes human-like severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in mice. The…
MSN reports “Lancet Formally Retracts Fake Hydroxychloroquine Study Used By Media To Attack Trump”
“Today, three of the authors of the paper, ‘Hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine with or without a macrolide for treatment of COVID-19: a multinational registry analysis”, have retracted their study,” The Lancet said in a retraction statement Thursday. “We deeply apologise to you, the editors, and the journal readership for any embarrassment or inconvenience that this may have caused,”…
Epoch Times reports “Study: Unvaccinated Children Have Better Health Than Their Vaccinated Peers”
In a sample of 2,000 boys and girls born between November2005 and June 2015, the study found that vaccinated children showed a higher chance of developmental delays, asthma, earinfections, and gastrointestinal disorders later in theirdevelopment. The original study by Dr. Brian Hooker is here. https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/study-unvaccinated-children-have-better-health-than-their-vaccinated-peers_3375761.html?v=ul
Children’s Health Defense reports “The Risks vs. Benefits of Face Masks- Is There an Agenda?”
There has been a shifting of positions on the use of face masks with the COVID-19 outbreak. Initially it was not recommended, then we had different signals from the U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams and representatives of the CDC, the NIH and other agencies. There are many important considerations including the risk versus the…
Vox reports “Why some labs work on making viruses deadlier — and why they should stop”
Earlier this week, Newsweek and the Washington Post reported that the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a lab near the site of the first coronavirus cases in the world, had been studying bat coronaviruses. The Newsweek report revealed an alarming tidbit: The Wuhan lab at the center of the controversy had for years been engaged in gain-of-function research. What exactly is it?…
Stanford research reports “Covid-19 much more prevalent than previously thought”
The population prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in Santa Clara County implies that the infection is much more widespread than indicated by the number of confirmed cases. Population prevalence estimatescan now be used to calibrate epidemic and mortality projections. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.14.20062463v1.full.pdf