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Science is packed with committees deciding on ethics… but there are few that decide whether it is safe “I am officially launching my new company: Cathy Medicine. We will eradicate diseases in future generations through germline gene editing.” This is one of several strongly and strangely worded tweets sent in recent days from the Twitter […]

The case for the Wuhan lab leak theory – and against Anthony Fauci – is too important to be sensationalised The White House has changed a page on its website, replacing a mundane compendium of advice about Covid vaccines, treatment and testing with a Hollywood-style poster of Donald Trump striding through the giant words “LAB […]

Five years ago this week, based on a highly misleading “model” forecast from one academic, Neil Ferguson, the British government ditched its pandemic plan and locked the entire country down with disastrous and – as Sweden proves – unnecessary consequences. It was the first of many dreadful mistakes made by the government during the Covid […]

The Covid pandemic almost certainly began with a leak from a laboratory, probably in the Wuhan Institute of Virology, some time in the autumn of 2019. The evidence is voluminous, detailed, precise and devastating, as I and others have catalogued. The CIA, FBI, German intelligence and the former head of MI6 all say they think […]

At the Royal Calcutta Turf Club, where ghosts of British Nabobs look out over the racecourse, my neuroscientist wife spoke to an audience of businessmen in support of Robin Sengupta, a pioneering Newcastle neurosurgeon. He has founded a world-leading Institute of Neurosciences in Kolkata where richer patients subsidise poorer ones. After a morning meeting doctors […]

Appeared in the Spectator; https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-has-biden-pardoned-anthony-fauci/   Joe Biden left it until the last minute to issue a pre-emptive pardon of Anthony Fauci for any offence committed since 2014 in his work on “the White House Coronavirus Task Force or the White House Covid-19 Response Team, or as Chief Medical Advisor to the President”. Yet surely […]

It is now five years since we woke to the news of a new outbreak of infectious pneumonia in China. Retelling the story of those early days of the Covid pandemic helps to shed light on how something that could have been prevented, contained and eradicated instead went on to kill more than 20 million […]

This appeared in the Spectator; https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/wuhan-wager-the-400-bio-bet-that-predicted-the-pandemic/ At the end of the year, one of the world’s most renowned scientists will send $400 to a charity to settle a wager with another of the world’s most renowned scientists. We don’t yet know which will win, but it is likely to be the wrong one, in my […]

Appeared in The Telegraph; https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/comment/2024/12/06/explosive-truth-about-origin-covid-19-emerge/ Trump’s new lieutenants, Jay Bhattacharya and John Ratcliffe, are convinced that a lab leak was probably the source It is now five years since we woke to the news of a new outbreak of infectious pneumonia in China. Retelling the story of those early days of the Covid pandemic helps […]

Appeared in the Spectator; https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-experts-who-enabled-rfk-jrs-rise/ The nomination of husky-voiced, musclebound Robert F. Kennedy Jr – who once dumped a dead bear cub in Central Park – to be secretary of health and human services in the Trump administration has horrified ‘experts’, according to the BBC. A left-wing Democrat who admires the late Venezuelan Marxist dictator […]