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Exaggerating the Influenza Threat - Evidence from FOIs
Last week, we summarised why and how inflating the burden of influenza is in the interest of governments, industry, and public health.
Watch the clip to see how easy it is for former Minister Maria Caulfield to wave the shroud of “flu” to justify the chaos enveloping the NHS and escape answering the question on excess deaths:
In Revisiting the F Word, we showed the likely figures for verified yearly deaths by influenza: The yearly influenza deaths were relatively few. For example, in 2015, we’re talking about 3 deaths per million, rising to roughly 24 per million in 2018.
Revisiting the F Word
Sometimes inspiration comes from brushoffs, from people who try to dodge a question, especially in a time-sensitive exchange on the floor of the House of Commons.
Not in their tens of thousands, but more likely in the hundreds. Historically, one of the worst shroud wavers has been the US Centres for Disease Control (CDC). Our colleague Peter Doshi showed how inflated the figures are, but do the US public health authorities realise they are peddling nonsense?
US investigators at the Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN) recently published private email correspondence, which lay…
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