9 min read Did the Covid case and death numbers on the Diamond Princess cruise ship add up to a “novel deadly virus” that required “shutting down the world”?
This forms part of our ongoing inquiry into the drivers of excess deaths.
6 min read Part 3 of 3 | We have witnessed the rise of a new class of ‘experts’, granted extraordinary power to repeal ancient liberties. Most critically, these experts have brooked neither dissent nor debate. Has such strange new authority been a success, and should it be tolerated again?
5 min read Part 2 of 3 | A multiplicity of scientists independently reaching the same conclusions and recommendations creates the illusion that ‘the experts cannot all be wrong’ when, in fact, these experts are really one conglomerate.
6 min read Part 1 of 3 | Were scientists like South Africa’s Professor Salim S. Abdool Karim, lauded by media and leaders globally, neutral with regards to political pressures in their approach to the Covid response? Part 1 of this series looks at Karim’s life and work under the religious mantle of science.
7 min read Traditionally clinicians do not test for respiratory viruses because testing does not inform patient treatment. In the case of the widespread PCR testing seen during the Covid-19 pandemic, the results should be evaluated in the context of clinical symptoms and possible exposure.
< 1 min read Leo Biddle has been working in field conservation and the illegal wildlife trade for the last 20+ years; with a large focus on rescue and rehabilitation of primates and indigenous Bornean wildlife. Leo founded the charitable organisation “Project Borneo”, whose work is, and was, almost exclusively funded by a number of nonprofit businesses Leo created. These businesses also funded multiple grassroots childrens’ charities and other animal charities. However, the last 2 years of the pandemic have effectively destroyed much of this work, with Leo now only caring for a few animals. Leo has made good use of of his time by exploring the many complex issues surrounding the pandemic.
< 1 min read This new research and paper, which Prof David Paton has undertaken with a colleague, examines the impact of the English care home vaccine mandate on vaccine uptake, care home staffing and Covid deaths.
< 1 min read In this discussion, David Bell (PANDA) and Toby Green (Collateral Global) will discuss the devastating impacts of the Covid response in poor countries around the world: what has happened, why it has happened, and what can be done to make sure it does not happen again? They will bring their combined expertise in public health and world history and colonial history to the question of continuities of power and inequality, and how this reversion to the medical colonialism of the first half of the 20th century has taken place.
< 1 min read Author Marc Morano will discuss how climate change and viral concerns are being combined by the ruling class globally. From the World Economic Forum to Bill Gates to the UN, the WHO, and your local government, your freedom to travel, earn a living, decide what you eat, are now being taken over by “emergencies” that lead to “endless crises” pushing unelected bureaucrats to force you to do things you don’t want. Marc will discuss climate change, energy, COVID, and how your freedoms are being stripped away by governments around the world.
2 min read In this presentation, David offers a preliminary explanation and assessment of the role of expert knowledge in national and international responses to Covid-19, and draws some general conclusions relevant to future crises, whether concerning public health, pandemics, climate change, or food and energy shortages.
