In a large Danish cohort study, getting covid correlates with a lower incidence of new diagnoses of dementia or any psychiatric disease in 12 months after infection compared to a control group who never had a positive test.
neurology.org/doi/10.1212/WN… The result is very likely a spurious correlation. But the study is so large and with a control group, that it indicts many smaller studies -- often without control groups -- that purport to find covid causes psychiatric conditions or dementia. Those are also probably spurious correlations.

Since 2020, the @cpso_ca has been persecuting Dr. @dockaurG for tweeting that
--lockdowns don't work
--waiting for a vax to lift lockdowns is harmful,
--contact tracing covid was futile.

All true statements.

Today, Dr. Gill got her day in court. A thread.
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https://twitter.com/JRwatch_ON/status/1778058441950470361

The @cpso_ca argued:
1. The CPSO can -- in effect -- ignore the free speech rights of doctors because of the precautionary principle.
2. Doctors who contradict public health should be subject to discipline.
3. It doesn't matter if the doctor writes factually accurate things.
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There is an important new report out on the lessons we should learn from the covid era by @kerpen, @ScottAtlas_IT, @steve_hanke, and @caseybmulligan. A thread follows:

Lesson #1: Leaders should calm fears, not stoke them.
1/11 Lesson #2: Lockdowns do not work to substantially reduce deaths or stop viral circulation
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My friend Andrew Lowenthal (@NAffects) once worked at the Harvard Berkman-Klein Center. He now works to expose the inner workings of the censorship industrial complex of which the Berkman Center is a part. The essay he wrote last April is eye-opening.
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brownstone.org/articles/the-c… Over the years, Andrew watched with dismay as a legitimate scholarly enterprise with a deep commitment to free speech turned against its prior stance in favor of propaganda.
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.@moderna_tx bankrolled the Orwellian "Public Goods Project" aimed at defaming mRNA vax critics. @lhfang reports that the company targeted me for tweeting a preprint by @US_FDA affiliated scientists that showed elevated seizure and myocarditis levels in kids after vax.
1/5 Moderna tagged my tweet for attack because they were afraid that accurately reporting the existence of preprint reporting these signals of vax side effects would make parents hesitant to give the Moderna vax to their kids.
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In Feb '21, former Stanford med school dean Phil Pizzo irresponsibly attacked Dr. @ScottAtlas_IT for advising Pres. Trump in summer '20 against lockdowns & school closures.

His attack in JAMA, that physicians should not "threaten the nation's health" is deeply ironic.
1/5 First and most obviously, lockdowns failed to protect people from dying. Since Jan '20 Sweden has the lowest cumulative age-adjusted all-cause excess deaths in Europe. California was worse than Florida.

It was the lockdowners who threatened the nation's health.
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In Victoria, former Premier Dan Andrews commissioned a propaganda report dividing Victorians into 5 castes, arrayed based on people's devotion to Dan's restrictions.
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archive.is/s0T1T Caste #1: Strongly support & follow restrictions
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This report by @shellenberger and @galexybrane on the @Stanford Internet "Observatory" is devastating. Based on documents provided by subpoena, it shows direct Stanford participation in censoring social media speech of Americans & directly contradicts university denials.
1/7 Throughout 2021 and 2022, the @Stanford Internet Observatory team flagged any post -- whether the post was true or false -- that they deemed would diminish enthusiasm for the covid vaccines.
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In 1968, the Institute of Cytology and Genetics faculty in Novosibirsk Akademgorodok voted to censure Raissa Berg, a Soviet dissident and brilliant geneticist, for signing a letter protesting Soviet treatment of scientific dissidents.
1/4 A Mendelian geneticist, Berg's career survived the Lysenko/Stalin purge of Soviet genetics in the 1930s but not the opprobrium of fellow Soviet academics in 1968, who just wanted her to shut up.
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In March 2021, scientists published an article with an idea to "eradicate" covid in a single day.

1. Simultaneous self-testing by everyone
2. Self-isolation of carriers
3. Deny people who test positive entrance to public facilities

"It's common sense," they wrote.
1/4 In November 2020, Slovakia implemented a "variant" of this idea, testing "most of the population" & preventing people from returning to work unless negative. The scientists claimed success, with a 60% reduction in new cases in "less than a week"!
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I have been an American citizen since I was 19 years old. Never did I imagine that an American government would conspire to violate my free speech rights.

But that is what the Biden Administration did, as the 5th Circult just confirmed.

I am thankful for the US Constitution. washingtonexaminer.com/policy/technol…

How to be anti-vax, a primer:
1) Exaggerate covid vaccine efficacy against disease transmission
2) Cause people to lose jobs and ostracize them via covid vax mandates & discrimination
3) Gaslight people with vax injuries
1/4 4) Push Swiss-cheese interventions with inadequate scientific justification to augment the vaccines while simultaneously telling people the vaccines protect against severe disease
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New JAMA article counts instances of doctors spreading "misinformation" online. The authors count posts saying that the vax doesn't stop disease spread as misinformation.

Oh, the irony of JAMA spreading misinformation in an article decrying misinformation. Here's the article.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

This op-ed in JAMA is surreal:
1. It complains that the @NIH is not funding research on population psychological manipulation
2. It insinuates that the NIH "paused" this funding due to a free speech lawsuit. Is this the NIH's official position?
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jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/… 3. It claims that there is no 1st amendment right to be wrong in public
4. It attacks the @gbdeclaration by claiming that children are at high risk of covid mortality

The irony of juxtaposing points 3 & 4 hurts...
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1/ @KevinBardosh's comprehensive compendium of lockdown harms deserves detailed attention. Over the next couple of weeks, I will highlight Kevin's findings in a long thread.

Key takeaway: Collateral damage from lockdowns will leave a legacy of harm for millions in years ahead. 2/ To start, here's a link to the paper, which weighs in at 119 pages and covers over 600 studies. Free to download at SSRN.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Fantastic interview by @freddiesayers of Richard Dawkins. Dawkins expresses too much sympathy for scientists and science bureaucrats who lied to the public about the certainty that scientists had about covid science in the covid era.
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unherd.com/thepost/richar… Science bureaucrats, clothing themselves in the garb of "The Science(tm)", have greatly undermined the reputation of science in the public mind.
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Well, I've gone through this FOIA archive, and I've reached a few conclusions:

1. The CDC spends a tremendous amount of bureaucratic effort on the propaganda surrounding the release of a study in the MMWR, maybe even more than on the study itself.

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https://twitter.com/15poundstogo/status/1666248561279811584

2. The CDC does not want the public to see the details of the deliberation that produced their social media and other propaganda to advertise the MMWR study. Nearly all of that is redacted in the FOIA dump.
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A 2023 covid taxonomy:
1. Die-hard zero-covidians, alarmed by perceived the catastrophic effects of long covid, astonished at the stupidity of the world which has moved on.
2. The world, which has very reasonably moved on.
1/5 3. The public health folk, politicians, and journalists who cannot admit the failure of their lockdowns, who helped destroy evidence-based medicine, and want to make sure no honest assessment of public health failure happens.
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Fantastic piece in which Debra Saunders wonders why the @latimes would seek reprisals against lockdown skeptics like, well me, who better understood the harms and futility of lockdown than the @latimes.
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realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/… Saunders tells a funny story about the Times columnist: "In 1993, the LA Times recalled Hiltzik, then a foreign correspondent in Moscow, to LA after he was caught snooping into his colleagues' email. I read about it in The NYT."

He faced no reprisals for that, I guess.
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A powerful essay by @boriquagato on how governments, promising illusory safety from a single pathogen, have transformed into biomedical security states.
1/3 Lockdowns are now a permanent part of public health's toolkit and an ever-present danger to your kids, to workers, and to the poor. Absent explicit repudiation, they will recur several times in the lifetimes of you and your children.
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Journalist @Ravarora1 at the Illusion of Consensus has a new story out about how the media suppressed his truthful reporting about covid vaccine injuries to young men.
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illusionconsensus.com/p/update-edito… @Ravarora1 One young editor turned down @Ravarora1's pitch because the publication did not want to appear "anti-vax". Another editor at the same publication later suffered a severe side effect from his covid vax but still would not let his publication tell the public this story.
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