The non-science of WHO’s weekly Covid reports
8 min read The WHO’s Weekly Epidemiological Updates (WEU) during the Covid event were touted as “comprehensive and authoritative analysis” on the global situation. What did they really show?
8 min read The WHO’s Weekly Epidemiological Updates (WEU) during the Covid event were touted as “comprehensive and authoritative analysis” on the global situation. What did they really show?
24 min read Given how much influence the Johns Hopkins Uuniversity Covid dashboard exerted on the world during the Covid event, it is appropriate to examine it in some detail.
3 min read An executive summary of PANDA’s position statement of 1 March 2024
30 min read Attempts to initiate an open debate about the moral acceptability of a government deploying behavioural science methods to lever obedience with current edicts have, to date, been unsuccessful. This report based on an ongoing project, looks at these ethical concerns.
5 min read Humans’ natural capacities for reasoning and speech mean that politics should be based on persuasion, not censorship, and that government should be based on consent, not coercion.
42 min read Evidence shows that behavioural science has been infused into the communications of many government departments. Who was responsible for using it to promote compliance with Covid-19 restrictions?
13 min read The debate continues as to the origins of Covid. With each new hypothesis, it would appear the real questions that should be considered are being buried deeper.
10 min read A recent article about growing vaccine hesitancy in the US, and how to counter it, relies on certain assumptions about vaccines and their efficacy. This article looks at some of these claims.
< 1 min read The Hippocratic Oath has been abandoned by most practicing physicians over the last several decades. How did Medicine lose its way?
16 min read Believing that we are doing good by serving the greater good, we seldom question our assumptions or the agendas and goals of the organisations and programmes within which we work.