‘Daily Skeptic ‘ Headlines For Today

by: Will Jones

• “Serious adverse events of special interest following mRNA COVID-19 vaccination in randomised trials in adults” – The Doshi study – which analysed data from the Covid vaccine trials and found the vaccines were more likely to put you in hospital than keep you out – has now been peer-reviewed and published in Vaccine.
• “Proven Relationship: Covid Boosters and Excess Mortality in 2022” – Igor Chudov reports his findings that 29 countries show strong association between booster uptake and excess mortality.
• “Next PM must guarantee Britain never locks down again” – Steve Baker and Steve Hanke write for the Times that “in all of the leadership contest drama, we must not forget that many of the problems now we face are the disastrous consequences of lockdown restrictions”.
• “Covid inquiry ‘won’t look at the impact of school closures’” – Pressure grows for the hearings to examine the lockdown impact on children, amid criticism of a lack of focus on young people, the Telegraph reports.
• “U.K. downgrades COVID-19 alert level amid falling cases” – Chief medical officers said the wave of Omicron variants was “subsiding”, although “further surges are likely”, reports the Guardian.
• “Next stop: mandatory flu vaccines” – Colleges like Berkeley have moved on from Covid to new health rules, writes Park MacDougald for UnHerd.
• “Jabs advice for pregnant women not changed amid bogus anti-vaxx claims” – The Mail reports that while social media users have claimed new advice said pregnant women “should not be taking” the jabs, ministers have said the claims are based on an old document from December 2020.
• “It Was Birx. All Birx” – Debbie Lerman with an incisive analysis for Brownstone of who was really driving the lockdown agenda in the White House, and it wasn’t Fauci.
• “The Tony Blair Institute think you should mask up: but what evidence are they basing this on?” – Heneghan and Jefferson on Trust the Evidence skewer the latest attempt to inflict facemasks on the British public.
• “Lawyering up at L.A. County Health over dubious mask mandates” – The Daily News reports on a lawsuit filed on behalf of the Alliance for Los Angeles County Parents that seeks to prevent the county Public Health Department from reimposing a mask mandate that would force children to wear masks in school, stating that the masks are not a harmless precautionary measure but are damaging to children.
• “After self-censoring shame over lockdown, how can journalists stay silent on vaccine danger?” – Bob Moran in TCW Defending Freedom tells a story, relayed to him on good authority, that Boris Johnson, speaking to a journalist in No. 10 following a press conference, gestured to a door through which Whitty and Vallance had just exited and said: “I’ve got to do what they tell me.”
• “Pandemic Preparedness and Its Discontents” – Paul Collits writes that technocracy and technocrats gave us ‘pandemic preparedness’ and pandemic preparedness gave us the Covid State and all of its evil deeds.
• “Terrain Theory ‘Terrorists’” – Dr. Roger Watson in Country Squire explains what ‘terrain theory’ is and why it should be avoided like the, er, plague.
• “The SARS-CoV-2 transmission riddle – Part 4” – Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson on Trust the Evidence write that in their systematic review of studies they found some evidence for asymptomatic transmission, but the studies typically used such poor methods that the research was often misleading and failed to address uncertainties; there was no way of quantifying the phenomenon.
• “The Frankfurt Declaration” – Read the international declaration from Christians opposed to lockdowns and other aspects of the abuse of power by the biosecurity state.
• “Green parties are facing a reality check” – When then-President Trump warned Germany at the UN General Assembly it was on course to become “totally dependent on Russian energy”, the Germans smirked. They’re not smirking now, says Douglas Murray in the Spectator.
• “German factories shut down as energy costs spiral out of control” – Eurozone inflation hits a new record, with Putin continuing to slash gas supplies to the Continent, the Telegraph reports.
• “Boris Johnson ready to sign off on £30bn Sizewell C nuclear power station” – Boris Johnson is poised to give approval this week for a nuclear power station costing up to £30 billion, according to the Times, while the Telegraph reports on a plan to build eight reactors in the U.K. at a pace of one a year.
• “NYC decriminalises weed and makes sales of whipped cream illegal” – The Post Millennial reports that the law was passed last year amid concern that teenagers are increasingly getting high by inhaling the nitrous oxide used as a propellant in the canisters.
• “They’re not solving any burglaries, auto thefts or violent crimes. They’re too busy policing our tweets” – Toby discusses policing with Mark Steyn on GB Newsafter a new report recommends that police do not take the knee.