The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our life-time." Edward Grey
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Several years ago, I wrote a book called
Doctoring Data. It was my attempt to help people navigate their way through medical headlines and medical data.
One of the main reasons I was stimulated to write it, is because
I had become deeply concerned that science, especially medical science, had been almost fully taken over by commercial interests. With the end result that much of the data we were getting bombarded with was enormously biased, and thus corrupted. I wanted to show how some of this bias gets built in.
I was not alone in my concerns. As far back as 2005, John Ioannidis wrote the very highly cited paper '
Why most Published Research Findings are False'. It has been downloaded and read by many, many, thousands of researchers over the years, so they can't say they don't know:
Moreover for many current scientific fields, claimed research findings may often be simply accurate measures of the prevailing bias. 1
Marcia Angell, who edited the
New England Journal of Medicine for twenty years, wrote the following. It is a quote I have used many times, in many different talks:
It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgement of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of the New England Journal of Medicine.
Peter Gotzsche, who set up the Nordic Cochrane Collaboration, and who was booted out of said Cochrane collaboration for questioning the HPV vaccine (used to prevent cervical cancer) wrote the book.
Deadly Medicine and Organised Crime. [How big pharma has corrupted healthcare].
The book cover states...
The main reason we take so many drugs is that drug companies don't sell drugs, they sell lies about drugs... virtually everything we know about drugs is what the companies have chosen to tell us and our doctors... if you don't believe the system is out of control, please e-mail me and explain why drugs are the third leading cause of death.
Comment: According to statistics, Singapore has a total population of 5,896,422 people. If 36 people died from COVID-19, then the total mortality rate is 0.0006%. So, basically, it is nothing to worry about.
In 2018 Singapore had 5,638,700 people. The same year 120 people died in car accidents. That is 0.0021%.
It means that far more people died in car accidents in Singapore in 2018 than from Covid-19 in the last 2 years.
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