How your patient data is being sold off for commercial purposes
The next time you engage online with your therapist or doctor, remember you aren’t just speaking to that person, you’re addressing the entire internet. In this article we’ll explain how your most private medical conversations are being recorded, analyzed, and sold on for commercial gain, always to your detriment. A recent 2021 article in Health IT Security highlighted how 30 well-known medical apps were shown to be vulnerable to hacking and API-based attacks.
Julie had been struggling for months to find a therapist to help her deal with increasing levels of anxiety. Finally, out of frustration and a desperate need…
Predatory journals and their impact on the scientific landscape
It isn’t easy. Let’s get that out the way up front. The individuals perpetrating these frauds are complex, intelligent people who are motivated by greed, fame, and sometimes, even a real misplaced belief in their ideas. They even manage to pull the wool over fellow professionals, who may lack the knowledge necessary to judge the fraudster's particular field of expertise. Importantly, no field is immune to this. All suffer equally, data science, virology, pharma, clinical, the list is as endless as the motivators for deception.
These confidence tricksters, which is essentially what they are, motivations aside, set about creating a…
A simple and elegant solution to destroying the virus before it can infect you may soon be available in your local pharmacy
Our Covid vaccines have been a godsend, but as we continue massive vaccination drives across the world, a few facts are beginning to emerge we simply cannot ignore.
- We cannot vaccinate the entire planet quickly enough. Some 30 countries have yet to administer their first vaccine. Continued outbreaks in these areas allow opportunity and time for the virus to mutate.
- Vaccines are going to have to be fine-tuned and re-administered at some point to address new variants, effectively meaning we have to start all over again.
Clearly, vaccines on their own aren't going to rid us of Covid and the…
MMR VACCINE
The doctor who fooled the world continues as though nothing has changed
Andrew Wakefield scores 6/5 on our Quack Scale. We consider him to be the ultimate quack and medical con artist, representative of everything a good physician strives not to be. He is the ultimate predatory health practitioner and the list of evidence against him is both damningly long and as it is irrefutable. He is guilty of professional misconduct, deception, wilful, and otherwise and had been stripped of his medical license. The litany of evidence we will present below will be more than sufficient to allow you to form a proper opinion of him and will expose the weak, unethical…
AUTISM
The dangers of unrestricted, false malicious propaganda unleashed on healthcare and a vulnerable public mind.
If Polly Tommey owned a medical qualification of any sort, it would have been stripped away years ago. The fact is though, she doesn’t. She’s educated herself, her study materials drawn for the dark world of pseudo-science, conspiracies, and falsified or misinterpreted data and research. She is a gullible, self-’educated’, self-appointed marketing mouthpiece for pseudo-science and a person with no clear understanding of the materials she seeks to discredit. If she does understand the material, this makes her even more complicit in misleading the public. Her motivations don’t appear centered around improving the lot of autistic children (her son has…
VACCINATION STRATEGY
The latest J&J PR travesty surrounding what is essentially a safe vaccine suggests we might need to consider alternatives
It was the moment everyone had been dreading, a joint announcement by the CDC and FDA that the Johnson and Johnsen vaccine was being temporarily withdrawn from circulation. The reason given? Six adverse reactions resulting in one death from an extremely rare blood clotting disease.
This adenovirus vaccine from J&J has proven itself extremely effective at preventing serious Covid that results in death. It has also shown increased efficacy in South Africa against their troublesome local strain of coronavirus, the B1.35.1 variant. On top of this, the J&J vaccine is a single shot (no follow-up shot is required) and it…
GUN SAFETY
Simple firearm safety and common sense rules our tragedy
I’m going to give you a new weapon to carry. It looks like your Glock, similar in shape and size and you're going to wear it in the same place you carry your Glock, on your hip. Your Glock can kill, this weapon, called a Taser, merely stuns. Try not to get them mixed up, would you?
So there we have an example of how stupidity gets you killed, the importance of proper gun safety in a public-facing environment where the majority of combatants you face aren't armed to teeth and looking to kill you, and how America’s police departments…
DEBUNKING COVID MYTHS
All here, in one place, collated for education, factual accuracy, and the odd smile
Every time someone publishes a new article, posts a video, or goes viral with their pandemic opinions suggesting there is a global Covid conspiracy or attacking the accepted medical narrative, we’re forced to dig out evidence to the contrary or point out flaws in their arguments. To make life easier for everyone, we’ve collected all the misinformation, misconceptions, bare-faced lies, and wild conspiracies in one place. Bookmark and feel free to use this to spread real evidence-based science.
We’ll kick off with the simple stuff and then move onto the more complex topics. There a lot of my often sad…
mRNA VACCINE TECHNOLOGY
A preprint from MIT raises important questions about reverse transcription and the RNA coronavirus
The single most posed question regarding mRNA technology is this. Can the technology be used to alter our DNA? Next, can the messenger RNA employed by new vaccines gain access to the host's DNA? The manufacturers assure us it can not. The issue is hugely complex, not as well understood as most would have you believe, and there are still questions that both science and vaccine manufacturers need to address.
New emerging research raises important questions and could also potentially affect our understanding of the coronaviruses. To really understand this article's content, a little refresher course in basic biology is…
COVID BRAIN FOG
Although we now know which parts of our brain covid attacks, we still don't understand the infection mechanism
Unlike traditional influenza that leaves you feeling crappy for a few days and then clears up, Covid displays a whole new bag of tricks that we need to be concerned about. Particularly worrying are the long haul cases of Covid, where patients develop several symptoms that threaten to linger as chronic conditions. It is incredibly important that we focus on understanding exactly how Covid develops in the body and exactly which systems it attacks. Only in this way can we develop tools to combat the after-effects. Patients need to educate themselves and also be aware of potential symptoms for long-haul…
