The editors of the BMJ write an open letter to Mark Zuckerberg (archive) describing a failure of fact-checking. Among other things, the BMJ was called "a news blog".
There is also a wider concern that we wish to raise. We are aware that The BMJ is not the only high quality information provider to have been affected by the incompetence of Meta’s fact checking regime. To give one other example, we would highlight the treatment by Instagram (also owned by Meta) of Cochrane, the international provider of high quality systematic reviews of the medical evidence.[3] Rather than investing a proportion of Meta’s substantial profits to help ensure the accuracy of medical information shared through social media, you have apparently delegated responsibility to people incompetent in carrying out this crucial task.
Guenter Kampf, in correspondence published by The Lancet, argues that stigmatizing the unvaccinated is not justified.
There is increasing evidence that vaccinated individuals continue to have a relevant role in transmission.... It is therefore wrong and dangerous to speak of a pandemic of the unvaccinated.
An opinion feature from the British Medical Journal suggests that The end of the pandemic will not be televised.
History suggests that the end of the pandemic will not simply follow the attainment of herd immunity or an official declaration, but rather it will occur gradually and unevenly as societies cease to be all consumed by the pandemic’s shocking metrics. Pandemic ending is more of a question of lived experience, and thus is more of a sociological phenomenon than a biological one. And thus dashboards—which do not measure mental health, educational impact, and the denial of close social bonds—are not the tool that will tell us when the pandemic will end. Indeed, considering how societies have come to use dashboards, they may be a tool that helps prevent a return to normal.
The Daily Mail is reporting that, according to German government numbers, anti-Christian hate crimes rose from 57 in 2019 to 141 in 2020.
A Twitter account covering the Ghislaine Maxwell trial has been kicked off the platform. Link goes to the user's Substack.
The Gateway Pundit discusses science that cannot be published because it runs contrary to the media narrative that's bought and paid for. The study cited has only published its abstract, which makes all this ado a little peculiar, but the realities behind the corporate-sponsored science explained by the news article is worth a read.
The Federalist is reporting on a Finnish case where authorities are claiming the Bible to be hate speech.
Rasanen and Pohjola are being charged with “hate speech” for respectively writing and publishing a 24-page 2004 booklet that explains basic Christian theology about sex and marriage, which reserves sex exclusively for within marriage, which can only consist of one man and one woman, for life. The Finnish prosecutor claims centuries-old Christian teachings about sex “incite hatred” and violate legal preferences for government-privileged identity groups.
Certain COVID-19 Vaccine Lots Are to Blame for Majority of Adverse Events in Public Data - Independent research allegedly pulled from VAERS (procedure available on request, which is a bit of a red flag, but not necessarily) which suggests that adverse effects from Pfizer and Moderna derive from particular lots of the preparation.
Workers Who Maintain Supply Chains Warn of Worldwide ‘System Collapse’ by Jack Phillips of the Epoch Times.
Church Militant discusses a pro-life clampdown - Christians arrested for protesting abortion in DC; in Australia it is now illegal to pray within 150m of an abortion facility.