COVID-19: What You Need to Know about Fatality Rates
Inherently overestimated COVID-19 fatality rates have created mass fear and panic, manufacturing consent for extreme and harmful authoritarian policies.
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Inherently overestimated COVID-19 fatality rates have created mass fear and panic, manufacturing consent for extreme and harmful authoritarian policies.
The influential Imperial College model governments have used to justify economic shutdown shows that lockdown only delays and worsens the problem long-term.
In response to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, governments have implemented authoritarian lockdown measures that could easily be doing more harm than good.
The World Health Organization (WHO) is sponsoring a malaria vaccine study in African children without obtaining informed consent from parents.
Facebook is using its “Fact Check” feature to censor truthful reporting while itself hypocritically propagating misinformation about vaccines.
Peter Hotez deceives New York Times readers about the odds of dying from measles in the US to persuade parents to comply with the CDC’s vaccine schedule.
While purporting to debunk “myths” keeping people from getting the influenza vaccine, NPR propagates misinformation to persuade people to get the flu shot.
The US corporate media dangerously accuse alternative sources of propagating “fake news” to maintain their own dominance as purveyors of misinformation.
The United Nations Children’s Fund has dangerously praised the Maldives legislature for passing a bill that fundamentally violates human rights.
The website Media Bias Fact Check accuses Foreign Policy Journal of biased reporting, but its accusation is what’s biased according to its own criteria.
Mainstream media propaganda is telling you that science supports the CDC’s recommendation to get an annual flu shot. The problem is that it doesn’t.
The New York Times persists in propagating the unevidenced conspiracy theory that the Russian government hacked into US election infrastructure in 2016.
A Facebook “Fact-Checker” feature purports to identify misinformation about vaccines while itself blatantly lying to the public about vaccine safety.
Israel’s attack on the Mavi Marmara on May 31, 2010, as the ship was attempting to break Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, was a war crime.
Public vaccine policy treats the entire population as subjects of a mass uncontrolled experiment without their informed consent.
The Jerusalem Institute of Justice’s video “The Israeli Palestinian Conflict: 10 Myths Preventing Peace” is a work of propaganda that only perpetuates lies.
Apologists for Israel’s crimes against the Palestinians claim the state has a “right to exist” in an effort to legitimize the ethnic cleansing of Palestine.
FactCheck.org claims that the mercury in vaccines is harmless and science has proven vaccines don’t cause autism, but its own key source says otherwise.
The significance of the 1917 Balfour Declaration is that it determined a policy by which Great Britain would facilitate the ethnic cleansing of Palestine.
A Washington Post article maligning people who don’t get a flu shot shows how the media’s reporting on vaccines is public policy advocacy, not journalism.