Are Lockdowns Effective in Managing Pandemics?

Moshe Yanovskiy and Yehoshua Socol The present coronavirus crisis caused a major worldwide disruption which has not been experienced for decades. The lockdown-based crisis management was implemented by nearly all the countries, and studies confirming lockdown effectiveness can be found alongside the studies questioning it. In this work, we performed a narrative review of the […]

Covid-19: A Deadly Pandemic?

Strong and Free Canada In March of 2020, we were told that a deadly virus, Covid-19, could kill up to 40 million people worldwide. We locked down, we wore masks, we self-isolated, we stopped travelling, we got vaccinated, we locked down again, we got vaccinated again, and we got booster shots. These actions cost millions […]

Covid Conflicts of Interest: Follow the Money

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World Council for Health Dr Tess Laurie: Fahrie gave this presentation at a recent World Council for Health General Assembly. He is a molecular biologist whose own questioning around the use of PCR testing for diagnostic purposes led him to uncovering the tangled web of conflicts of interest across regulatory agencies, scientific journals and research […]

Social Scientists Can’t Predict Better Than Laymen, Study Finds

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Noah Carl The pandemic has shone a spotlight on public health ‘experts’. Many initially opposed lockdown, before abruptly changing their view when doing so became politically convenient. They said that masks don’t work, only to turn around and back mandates. And after assuring us the vaccines would stop transmission, they were met with overwhelming data to […]

Better Way Charter

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World Council for Health The inaugural Better Way Conference held in May 2022 in Bath, UK, was created to facilitate active discussion with a solutions-driven focus because questioning the science is how you do science. The issues were highlighted and the actions that follow were proposed. The actions inform the Seven Principles of a Better […]