“Forcing people to wear masks has been a failure of public health. The reason we are still having the mask debate is because authorities relied on trash studies to justify their use, and wanted to appear as if they were doing something. In a crisis, it is always more difficult to do nothing,” Gøtzsche said.
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This is more than a story about one woman’s personal decision. It is a story about institutional culture, regulatory failure, and the consequences of silence. Those who spoke up were punished. Those who stayed silent kept their jobs and reputations.
Top FDA Official Admits She Refused the Covid-19 Vaccine While Pregnant Read Journal Article
It’s patients — not governments — who should steer their own medical decisions, once they’ve been fully informed. The story of the PSA test reminds us that well-intentioned medicine can cause real harm when certainty is oversold and humility is lost.
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TED became a gatekeeper of permissible opinion, enforcing orthodoxy behind the smokescreen of “community guidelines.” For a platform that once prided itself on promoting bold thinking, TED’s censorship of Foster’s talk is a moment of institutional retreat—and intellectual cowardice.
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Jefferson explains that the entire point of the Cochrane review was to systematically sift through all the available randomised data on physical interventions such as masks and determine what was useful and what was not. “It might be that Fauci is relying on trash studies,” said Jefferson. “Many of them are observational, some are cross-sectional, and some actually use modelling. That is not strong evidence.”
Lead Author of Cochrane Mask Review Responds to Fauci’s Dismissal of Evidence Read Journal Article
Despite persistent investigation, it is still not clear why FDA-approved COMIRNATY-labelled vials are not being distributed and administered to Americans. The organizations charged with manufacturing, approving, co-ordinating, and tracking the vaccines seem to be operating in silos.
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Independent experts now say the declining evidentiary standards, shortening approval times, and increasing industry involvement in FDA decision-making, has led to distrust, not only of the agency, but in the safety and effectiveness of medicines, in general.
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The appeal to “scientific consensus” is fraught with problems, just like “the science is settled” and “trust the science” and other authoritarian tropes that have dominated the pandemic.
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A public records officer at the NIH is at the centre of a scandal involving FOIA requests. Subpoenaed emails belonging to a former advisor to Fauci revealed that someone had taught him to avoid emails being captured by FOIA requests.
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The FDA has approved hundreds of drugs without proof they work—and in some cases, despite evidence they cause harm. That’s the finding of a blistering two-year investigation by medical journalists Jeanne Lenzer and Shannon Brownlee, published by The Lever.
FDA Exposed: Hundreds of Drugs Approved without Proof They Work Read Journal Article
