Year: 2020
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Can our Sense for Truth be Quashed by Selective Fact-Checkers?
In order to overcome an enemy, you need a clear definition of who it is. According to UNESCO, “COVID-19 has led to a parallel pandemic of disinformation that directly impacts lives and livelihoods around the world. Falsehoods and misinformation have proven deadly and sowed confusion about life-saving personal and policy choices.” (UNESCO n.d.) Though “disinformation”…
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Filipino doctors: Lift all lockdowns and allow our people to begin to rebuild their lives
The following is a unity statement crafted by several concerned doctors and citizens in the Philippines. In it, they tell the country’s president, Rodrigo Duterte, that there is a solution to the coronavirus. They said, “We now know that the best immediate solution for the Philippines is a dramatically effective, safe, inexpensive, readily available, evidence-based…
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Medical doctor tells premier of Victoria: We need an alternative medical response to SARS-CoV-2
The following article is an open letter of several medical doctors to Daniel Andrews, incumbent premier of Victoria. In it, the doctors enjoined Andrews to lift the Stage 4 restrictions imposed on the state of Victoria, in Australia, and have offered their assistance in crafting a new set of policies that will serve to ease…
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WHO mask study seriously flawed
This article initially published by the Swiss Policy Research last September 9, 2020 and updated September 13, 2020 debunks the WHO-commissioned study published by The Lancet last June 2020. According to SPR, the Lancet study was utilized by various governments as basis for mandatory masking policies, but this study is flawed on various levels and…
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Our immune system is the biggest mystery during this coronavirus outbreak
This article written by Dr. John Lee for The Spectator relates to us what is known about viruses, and their role in the evolution and development of life. He says that all coronaviruses, being RNA viruses, predates life itself. And as all of life have developed alongside RNA viruses, our bodies have evolved with the…
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Peru: The country with the world’s strictest lockdown also has the worst excess deaths
Peru may have faithfully employed lockdowns, but it has failed to control the coronavirus. This article published by The Telegraph shows us that despite having the world’s strictest lockdowns, Peru has the highest excess deaths in the world. Officially, COVID-19 deaths are at 28,000, with seven in every 10 residents saying that they know someone…
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Health professionals around the world call for the end of lockdowns and other COVID restrictions
The following 25-page document sent to us by a friend in Europe. The document accompanies the international petition initiated by the United Health Professionals, which at present has more than 1,000 signatories [sign the petition at Change.com]. Utilizing evidences from different fronts, this document refutes the various reasons used to support the implementation of lockdowns,…
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New study: Millenials overestimate their COVID-19 risk
The following article written by Daniel Horowitz reports on a newly published study conducted by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) which focused on people’s perceived health risks associated with COVID-19. Results of the study showed that the younger the respondent was, the more concerned they were that the virus would be deadly to…
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Sweden’s economy in much better shape than the rest of Europe
In this report for Newsweek published last August 6, 2020, author Soo Kim says that Sweden’s economy is outperforming the rest of Europe. Like it’s neighbors, the country experienced a decline in its Gross Domestic Product (GDP), but Sweden is not yet in recession. Editor’s Note: Remember the article published by the New York Times in…
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New study: Hydroxychloroquine is effective and safe for the treatment of COVID-19
The following is a meta-analysis of various reports that used hudroxychloroquine (HCQ) for COVID-19 treatment. Based on their research, authors Chadwick Prodromos and Tobias Rumschlag offers these four important results: (1) HCQ is consistently effective for COVID-19 when used early in the course of the disease. The earlier it is used, the more effective it…
