Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and The Forgotten History – Part 1 | Roman Bystrianyk
< 1 min read How much do we really know about the history of disease, vaccines and public health? How much does the establishment want us to know?
Science
How Medicine Lost Its Way: The Abandonment of Medical Ethics | Richard Amerling, MD
< 1 min read The Hippocratic Oath has been abandoned by most practicing physicians over the last several decades. How did Medicine lose its way?
Challenges in manufacturing and distributing products derived from biologics | Hedley Rees
2 min read Hedley Rees explains how the fragmented supply chain for new pharma products has disrupted the time-tested practices that were key to drug safety.
The myths of Pandemic Preparedness
7 min read The subversion of health for profit runs contrary to the entire ethos of thepost-World War Two anti-fascist, anti-colonialist movement. When people across politics can acknowledge this reality, they can put aside the false divisions that this corruption has sown
Virology | Mary Hauser, PhD and Jennifer Smith, Ph
2 min read An overview of the field of virology, covering the basics from virus structure to the mechanisms of viral infections to PCR testing.
Medical Fascism in the Lancet
6 min read Medical ethics are about protecting society from medical malfeasance and the self-interest of the humans whom we trust to manage health. It is therefore disturbing when prominent people, in a prominent journal, tear up the concept of medical ethics and human rights norms.
Leo Biddle | A selective attention gorilla in the coalmine, and lack of primate pandemic
< 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.
Lancet, COVID-19, and the modeling of fallacy
6 min read Honesty in medical publishing, meaning publication on the basis of transparent rigorous review and impartiality, is of particular importance to medicine and public health. The outcomes of such publications contribute to saving or killing people.
Natural immunity is not – and never was – just a right-wing conspiracy theory
8 min read There was never any reason to expect that “natural immunity” – the protection acquired through infection by SARS-COV-2 – should not be similar to that acquired for other respiratory viruses humankind has come into contact with – robust, flexible and durable. Were it not, our species would have been wiped out many millennia ago.
Creating Research “Consensus”
5 min read A PANDA scientist contemplates the propaganda-type techniques in promoting consensus in research.