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How Corrupted Science Poisoned Society

Written by Andrew Montford

I had been unconvinced of the climate change narrative since the earliest days. When the global warming circus opened for business in the 1980s, we were just coming off the back of the alarm over the hole in the ozone layer, so a second atmospheric emergency in the space of a few years seemed just a little too much of a coincidence.

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How They Rig Clinical Trials and The Price We All Pay For It

Written by A Midwestern Doctor

Story at a Glance: Scientific research has provided immense benefit to society, but as its success earned it power, prestige and enormous financing, incentives shifted from advancing humanity to protecting the status quo and ensuring vast profits for the pharmaceutical industry.

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Lest We Forget

Written by Hugh McCarthy

This is PART 5 of a six-part series on the effects of Covid lockdowns on children, young people and education and focusses on the universities.

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How Being Poisoned Can Be Mistaken for Being Infected By ‘Germs’ and ‘Viruses’

Written by Sayer Ji

The Story at a Glance: The claim in one breath. Modern medicine explains illness with two stories — genes and germs. A third, the exposome (the lifetime load of chemicals a body absorbs, including the ones we’re prescribed and injected), is real, large, and badly undercounted. While it may not itself replace germ theory, it at least deserves to sit alongside it.

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Society’s war on grief

Written by Robert D. Stolorow

The DSM5, the most recent version of psychiatry’s diagnostic bible, makes it possible to classify grieving that endures beyond a rather brief span of time as a mental illness.

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DNA Testing: a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

Written by Jonathan Engler

Conventional medical wisdom (and as I was taught at medical school 40 years ago) holds that medicine is a science, and since science involves measurements, the more we measure, the better we are able to diagnose, track and treat health and illness.

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