(Rapid response to a BMJ article, reproduced here) 08 April 2021 Maryanne Demasi Researcher, journalist Prof Peter Gøtzsche Institute for Scientific Freedom Copenhagen 2970, Denmark @MaryanneDemasi Dear Editor The conversation about COVID-19 vaccine passports has reached fever pitch, with many media outlets reporting that proof of vaccination may be required for entry into pubs, restaurants,…
An “anti-vaxxer” group of people, United Health Professionals, has sent a totally misleading letter to the governments in 30 countries. Peter Gøtzsche has highlighted the many falsehoods and nonsense statements in their letter. Open letter to President Jair Bolsonaro
We submitted our review to four different journals that all accept systematic reviews of animal research, but ended up publishing the review on our website.
Peter C Gøtzsche writes: In March, the world’s most cited medical researcher, Professor John Ioannidis from Stanford University, became the subject of one of the worst witch hunts in newer medical history after he had published an opinion article about the COVID-19 pandemic. Journalists Jeanne Lenzer and Shannon Brownlee described this in an opinion piece…
Maryanne Demasi reflects on the reports published this week about two corona vaccines. The new vaccines have offered some hope that, sometime down the road, our lives can return to normal. Read more
When the state knows best and violates human rights, we are on a dangerous course. History has shown that leaders who assure us that the situation is so serious that we must give up our freedom to gain security against an external or internal danger usually end up giving us neither freedom nor security but…
The Danish National Board of Health’s documentation for the effect of face masks is highly questionable and the governments decision to kill all 15 million minks in Denmark was neither legal nor reasonable. Read more
Now we can no longer survive without looking like bank robbers when it comes to shopping. In a few years, we have gone from mask ban to mask in order to reduce the risk of becoming infected with coronavirus, but it probably does not work. Read article
Abhishek Anand, PhD in computer science from Cornell University, Ithaca, had made a donation to the Institute and allowed me to tell why he did that. Many people donate their hard-earned money to charities with noble sounding names line the “Lupus Foundation” thinking that the money helps people with such diseases. Most of such organizations,…
The nation’s flawed dietary guidelines have much to answer for, with more than 5000 people losing their lives “unnecessarily” from Type 2 diabetes in the past three months. With evidence showing diet can improve underlying health conditions, in a time of rising COVID-19 infections it is more important than ever to revise the dietary guidelines,…
