The Dots go on…….
How taxpayers have funded an intervention with a highly questionable evidence base
To recap what we have written so far. We have seen that good data do not support the idea that there is only one viral respiratory agent around, that its name is influenza (A or B) and that influenza causes mayhem around winter time every year.
In our Riddles series, we reported on the multiple logical gaps in germ theory. We often cite the failure to infect volunteers during challenge studies at the MRC Common Cold Unit when conditions are ideal for such an infection. A proportion of quarantined volunteers with no history or laboratory evidence of recent influenza illness were not infected by squirting viruses up their nostrils.
The SARS-CoV-2 transmission riddle - Part 10
In previous instalments, we examined the properties of respiratory viruses. In Riddle 6, we broadly described the part played by challenge studies in understanding causality and transmission. We also described the evidentiary rules based on previous work updated in light of the significant advances in gene sequencing and molecular epidemiology. We now b…
Other modes of transmission have not been studied with modern molecular diagnostics, so we are left with the evidence from the kissing and poker games studies to try and understand precisely how these bugs infect or acti…
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