Professor of Clinical Pscyhology at Gent University in Belgium, Mattias Desmet, gave this testimonal to the Corona Ausschuss with Dr Reiner Fuellmich recently. A fascinating insight into the psychology behind the formation of a mass psychological phenomenon. It is not a secret, and has likely always been known to those with propensity to carry out … More Examining Fear
The impact of promoting fear in healthy people with insignificant disease risk is hard to comprehend. I experienced this during the Swine Flu Swindle in 2009. Poor public health messaging and panic-driven practices led to systems becoming overwhelmed by the worried well, encouraged by trashy tabloid journalists mongering fear into a perfectly healthy population. Over … More Anti-Science Sinkhole
Scientists and public health investigators have been arguing persistently that use of scare tactics is a deadly strategy, contributing to death and destruction in the past year. Scare tactics go against very basic public health principles and anyone with basic working knowledge of public health knows this. The first sign that something was very wrong … More Scaring People is Deadly
Almost noone has followed established, well documented pandemic public health evidence over the past year. The few exceptions include Sweden and some US states such as South Dakota, with others gradually realising their errors: most famously Florida in October 2020; more recently Texas. Globally, those arguing for key evidence based action such as protecting the … More Weaponised Evidence?
During more than 15 years of working with infectious diseases, a large part of my role involved reducing panic and fear in order that appropriate and proportionate responses could be implemented. This was never easy. People are drawn to fear and panic where infectious diseases are concerned, and even qualified medical doctors with limited infectious … More Scarey Variants
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
This Letter to the Editor in the British Medical Journal offers a summary of the pandemic and our public health response. The author states “no competing interests”, an important consideration but which always needs double checking. Christian Drosten stated no conflicts of interest in his Eurosurveillance paper recommending a faulty PCR test which was taken … More Summarising a Pandemic
This week’s media misrepresentation includes “Fears of catastrophe as rising Covid-19 cases hit Papua New Guinea’s stretched health system“. “Plunged into a Covid-19 crisis“, “temporary beds are filling up fast with seriously ill patients“, “health workers are being particularly affected, prompting fears that services may be crippled“, “a new coronavirus tragedy is just starting to … More Surreal Times
At last mainstream media are starting to question events of the past year. Hopefully this is a sign that normalcy will begin to return and our lunatocracies revert to democracies again before it is too late. Coronavirus lockdown lunacy is frying our minds: Adam Creighton in The Australian reported ten days ago on this study … More Cracking the Lunacy
Dr John Lee has been a Professor of Pathology and NHS Consultant Pathologist for over 20 years, and a university teacher for over 30 years. He is now the spokesman on Pathology for HART (Health Advisory and Recovery Team). This is a new, independent UK public health organisation trying to offer some balance to the … More The Vast Wall of Fear
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