Edmund Fordham Profile picture
Physicist and engineer in the energy industries. Sometime Independent Parliamentary candidate for South-East Cambridgeshire.
Jun 30, 2021 19 tweets 8 min read
Oh dear.
"Rubbish meta-analysis" (TM @Covid19Crusher) is accepted for publication
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(thread) Within 24 hours, the authors had to correct the ludicrous reversal of the two arms of the Niaee study doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.… and issued version 2 medrxiv.org/content/10.110… (thread)
Dec 20, 2020 17 tweets 7 min read
Wrote to @lucyfrazermp on 27 Nov asking about the oFPR of our PCR testing programme for covid. No answer yet.(thread) Lord Bethell told the HoL “the oFPR is unknown” on 24 October. (thread)
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Nov 28, 2020 21 tweets 11 min read
@lucyfrazermp replies !
Chronology:
08 Oct asked for oFPR in “Pillar 2” labs
13 Nov spoke to @lucyfrazermp with slides
16 Nov @lucyfrazermp email (other thread)
17 Nov asked for the oFPR and FDR of the Pillar 2 testing
20 Nov her reply ...
27 Nov my response … (thread) @lucyfrazermp’s letter 20/11:

1. Apologises for ignoring my 13/11 briefing before her 16/11 email.

Tough when your constituents aren’t happy.

I gave her lots of material, which @MattHancock will see. And perhaps reply to. She says.

(thread)
Nov 27, 2020 21 tweets 5 min read
Lockdown Sceptics report how HMG Ministers keep re-discovering a document on the operational False Positive Rate (oFPR) of the PCR testing for covid-19 (thread) lockdownsceptics.org/page/3/ Scroll down to "SAGE: PCR False Positive and Negative Rates Unknown in June" for details. Everything goes back to this briefing paper from 3 June (thread) gov.uk/government/pub…
Nov 20, 2020 20 tweets 9 min read
US Senate Hearing on "Early Outpatient Treatment for Covid-19". What @NHS and @MattHancock tell us doesn't exist. But the US Senate has a Hearing on it, convened by @SenRonJohnson. Extraordinary behaviour in places.
Nov 18, 2020 14 tweets 7 min read
@lucyfrazermp is rattled and writes a round-robin email to her constituents. Keep it up, good people of SE Cambs ! (thread) But @lucyfrazermp is misleading her constituents with things that can't be true. Asking about "false positives" is apparently a "common point".
There is "a robust system in place to adjust for potential false positives" Really ? How do they do that ? (thread)
Sep 4, 2020 7 tweets 2 min read
Quinine worked against Spanish Flu in 1918. Found with help of pro Librarian (with many thanks: you know who you are). Burrows & Burrows (1918) Medical Record v94 n25 21 Dec 1918 pp1081-2. (thread) "intravenous injection will prevent or astoundingly diminish the number of later progressive pneumonias and the corresponding high mortality"

"when it is evidenced that spontaneous recovery is becoming doubtful the intravenous injection of quinine is given at once" (thread)