Yesterday I wrote about that influential Lancet study that had become suspect. Well, today its authors have retracted it. The statement from the journal can be found here. Excerpt: …[O]ur independent peer reviewers informed us that Surgisphere would not transfer … Continue reading →
It’s not been a real good week for The Lancet, the well-known medical journal based in London and New York. Remember the famous Iraq casualty study, researched by one Gilbert Burnham of Johns Hopkins, and published in Lancet’s pages back … Continue reading →
The famous 2006 Lancet study indicating there had been more than ten times the previous estimates of Iraqi deaths in the war and postwar period engendered a storm of controversy right from the outset. How could such a huge number … Continue reading →
I’m really tired of feeling the need to write this sort of thing, having dealt with it over and over again over the last few years. It is my observation that many people have no idea how to interpret medical … Continue reading →
(1) I think that anyone paying attention has known almost from the first couple of months that there was a very good chance that COVID started with a Wuhan lab leak. Now the authorities seem to be saying that was … Continue reading →
Now it can be told, apparently: Immunity acquired from a Covid infection provides strong, lasting protection against the most severe outcomes of the illness, according to research published Thursday in The Lancet — protection, experts say, that’s on par with … Continue reading →
I really don’t know what’s most astounding about this story. Is it the fact that it appeared in Vanity Fair, of all places? Is it the fact that it appeared at all? Or is it the fact that the secret … Continue reading →
…is being revived. Take a look: The natural-emergence theory has long held the upper hand, in part because of strong statements made by virology experts from early on. “We stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does … Continue reading →
Well, it could just be poor statistics-taking and reporting. But apparently the death rate has not gone up, either, and a rise in that would be more noticeable. So it seems the low rate of (and/or better prognosis from) COVID … Continue reading →
Brazil’s Bolonaro lives to fight another day – having recovered from COVID. And to make matters even more tragic for the left, the Brazilian president does a Trumpish thing: Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro announced on Saturday he has tested negative … Continue reading →
With all the other news, it’s easy to forget how the drug hydroxychloroquine was trashed after Trump had the audacity to mention it as being promising. But let’s not forget, because lives were lost as a result of the anti-Trump … Continue reading →
It wouldn’t be the first time, either. Once hydroxychloroquine was touted by Trump as a possible tool against COVID, the drug’s days were numbered. Is it any wonder that a major study came out against it, and now there’s growing … Continue reading →