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British Airways Pilot Banned From Flying for Refusing to Wear Face Mask Loses Discrimination Case as Court Declares a “Fundamental” Human Right to Expect Others to Wear a Mask

A BA pilot who was banned from flying for refusing to wear a mask has failed in his attempt to sue the airline for discrimination after a court declared a "fundamental" human right to expect others to wear a face mask.

Cochrane Scandal: We Found No Evidence Masks Worked – and That Had to Be Silenced

Dr. Tom Jefferson and Prof. Carl Heneghan write that their Cochrane review on masks found no evidence they stopped viruses – a politically inconvenient conclusion that had to be silenced, come what may.
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CDC Recommends New Covid Boosters to Everyone Over Six Months of Age

While Europe has now largely confined Covid vaccination to older groups, the US CDC has just recommended the new booster for everyone over six months, insisting “the benefits exceed the risks for everyone”.
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“The Government Censored Me and Other Scientists. We Fought Back – and Won”

A U.S. federal court has ruled that the Biden administration violated the U.S. Constitution by making threatening demands of social media companies that they censor dissenting scientists over pandemic policies.
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Shocking Failures of Climate and Covid Science Highlighted by Critical New Report

The recent and concerning collapse of the once revered scientific process in large parts of the climate change and medical community is detailed in a highly critical new paper from the Global Warming Policy Foundation.
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Lead Author of Cochrane Mask Review Responds to Fauci’s Dismissal of Evidence

Anthony Fauci was challenged on CNN (really) over the Cochrane review showing no evidence for face masks against Covid. Now, the review's lead author Tom Jefferson has said his comments defending masks "don't make sense".
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The Original ‘Asymptomatic Spreader’ Was Not Asymptomatic: She Took Paracetamol

It turns out that the original 'asymptomatic spreader' whose case was widely reported in the medical literature actually had symptoms and took medicine. Yet the paper claiming otherwise has never been retracted.
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Free Speech Fears Grow After Springer Nature “Meekly Obeys” Activist Demands For Alimonti Climate Paper Retraction

Free speech is under attack in the politicised world of climate science, says Chris Morrison, as disgust at the recent cancellation of Alimonti et al. by Springer Nature continues to grow.
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Top Science Journals Are Refusing to Publish Studies that Contradict the Climate Alarmist Narrative, Says Climate Scientist

Climate researchers are self-censoring and adapting their research to fit in with the climate alarmist narrative in order to be published in the top journals, a climate scientist whistleblower has said.
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