Public Health Fiasco

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

Professor Sunetra Gupta

She is one of the most calm, common sense filled voices of reason and established public health practice throughout this crisis. Here she speaks with a Swedish podcaster for half an hour on her epidemiology and immunology research, the impact of lockdowns compared with focused protection of the vulnerable, herd immunity, the ad hominem attacks … More Professor Sunetra Gupta

Attacks on Dissenting Voices Set Back Scientific Progress

This is a brilliantly written piece discussing history, anthropology, medical discovery, psychology and current phenomenon in a single article, from the American Institute of Economic Research. Author: Barry Brownstein, professor emeritus of economics and leadership at the University of Baltimore Oxford professor Sunetra Gupta, one of the principal signers of the Great Barrington Declaration, is … More Attacks on Dissenting Voices Set Back Scientific Progress

Lionhearts of 2020

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

Declarations of Dissent

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

Frames of Reference

Professor Sunetra Gupta at Oxford University in England stated in a recent interview that, as is usual in the winter season, rates of respiratory illness are increasing. Currently in the UK 1,000 people per week are dying of influenza and pneumonia. Simultaneously Covid deaths have risen to an average of 40 per week. (The Week … More Frames of Reference

Interviews Worth Hearing

Anders Tegnell is chief epidemiologist with the Swedish Public Health Agency. Unlike many western countries whose health departments respond directly to elected ministers, Swedish law does not allow political intervention in agency decision making. This lack of ministerial rule seems to explain why evidence based pandemic plans were followed with minimal controversy in Sweden. Much … More Interviews Worth Hearing