Whilst scenes such as these are now considered normal across the globe: Those of us fighting for proportionality and rationality based on evidence and data have been maligned and dismissed for more than a year. Noone more so than some of the world’s most accomplished Infectious Disease Epidemiologists. Some continue to speak out despite an … More Public Health Fiasco
Pre-lockdown, despite the poverty people exist in, I never received messages like this from my many contacts in Cambodia. In the past week I have received three from three different people, plus messages from close friends with resources but living amongst it and witnessing the carnage, that “things are not good here now”, “we are … More Lockdown is Doing This to People
PANDA ~ Pandemics Data and Analytics invited me to become a member three days ago! This stemmed from my opinionating on Twitter. The movement has largely grown out of recruitments from Twitter, with like minds gravitating towards each other. There are more than a hundred of us, with various skills to offer such as mathematicians, … More Pillars of Public Health
Public Health crashed into a political brick wall and severed its spinal column in 2020. A few brave paladins have risen from the ashes. This includes some extraordinary individuals but also some critically important media outlets swimming against the mainstream narrative which is drowning us all in shallow currents of misinformation. The Spectator was established … More Basic Public Health Principles
Scott Atlas is this year’s leading lionheart in my view. He is an academic with zero political aspirations who entered the White House at significant personal cost. Regardless of which political side he appears to be on, the reason he entered the White House was “because the President of the United States asked me, a … More Lionhearts of 2020
Some people are just inspiring. Nick Hudson is an actuary who co-founded the South African non-profit Pandemics – Data and Analytics. The Australian mainstream media have ignored the Great Barrington Declaration which is perhaps one of the most significant movements of this year, if not beyond. Meanwhile, upon signing the Great Barrington Declaration, Hudson had … More Declaration of Inspiration
They started out as Covid Doctors Network but have revamped and renamed. Today’s Statement of the Australian Covid Medical Network speaks for me 100% and I am so thankful for them. Meanwhile, three of the brightest lights through all of this, pre-eminent disease epidemiologists, Professors Martin Kulldorff (Harvard University), Sunetra Gupta (Oxford University) and Jay … More Declarations of Dissent
Michael Levitt, a Nobel Laureate award winning scientist at Stanford University, who has been monitoring the pandemic since before it was international news, speaking about his experience on yesterday’s Roundtable session led by Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida: “… Online with Governor DeSantis was my first interaction with Jay Battacharya and Martin Kulldorff. I have … More More From Leading Public Health Experts
We Need a Radically Different Approach This excellent article is an interview with two Harvard Professors published in Jacobin Magazine, who describe themselves as “a leading voice of the American left“. I make this distinction because of the accusations of political ideology which often frame perceptions of challenging opinions. Francois Balloux tweeted this today, which … More Tips From Harvard
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