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Covid19

World’s top medical journal finally says Covid could have come from lab leak

Published by The Mail on Sunday (18th September, 2022) THE world’s leading medical journal has conceded that the Covid pandemic could have been sparked by a laboratory leak […]

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Covid19 / Technology

Science journals have been corrupted by China

Published by UnHerd (13th August, 2021) Nine months ago, the scientific establishment’s determined efforts to stifle debate on the origins of the pandemic began to crumble with the […]

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Covid19 / Technology

Now Lancet is accused of costing lives by sitting on a key study showing human transmission of Covid-19

Published by The Mail on Sunday (25th July 2021) The world’s most famous medical journal, The Lancet, sat on vital information being suppressed by China proving that the Covid […]

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Covid19 / Health / Policy

Did scientists stifle the lab-leak theory?

Published by UnHerd (22nd July, 2021) In September 2019, even as a new respiratory virus may have started circulating in a central Chinese city, some prominent figures issued […]

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Covid19 / Feature / Technology

Why won’t The Lancet admit it was wrong?

Published by UnHerd (6th July, 2021) Someone needs to tell The Lancet the most basic tenet of crisis management: when in a hole, stop digging. Instead, this world-renowned medical journal […]

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Covid19 / Health / Policy / Technology

World’s most famous medical journal is accused of doing China’s dirty work – by denouncing the Covid lab leak theory as a conspiracy

Published by The Mail on Sunday (27th June, 2012) Earlier this year, the prominent German psychiatrist Thomas Schulze sent a proposal to Richard Horton, editor-in-chief of world-renowned medical […]

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Covid19 / Feature / Technology

Head of Wellcome Trust accused of ‘chilling’ bid to stifle debate on lab leak theory

Published by The Mail on Sunday (13th June, 2021) Shortly before the pandemic, Sir Jeremy Farrar, head of the globally respected Wellcome Trust, delivered a speech offering his […]

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Covid19 / Health / Policy / Technology

Beijing’s useful idiots

Published by UnHerd (8th June, 2021) Just over a year ago, I stumbled across an intriguing scientific paper. It suggested the pandemic that was ripping around the world […]

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Africa / South Africa

Obesity: Africa’s new crisis

Published by The Observer Magazine (21st September, 2014) When the first McDonald’s restaurant opened almost two decades ago in Johannesburg, a teenage boy named Thando Tshabalala was among […]

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Africa / Aid / Health / Policy / South Africa

South Africa’s obesity crisis: the shape of things to come?

Published by Mosaic Science (9th September, 2014) When the first McDonald’s restaurant opened almost two decades ago in Johannesburg, a teenage boy named Thando Tshabalala was among the […]

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Ian Birrell is an award-winning columnist, foreign correspondent, feature writer and investigative journalist. He is contributing editor of The Mail on Sunday, a weekly columnist in The i Paper and writes frequently for other papers and platforms. He is also co-founder with Damon Albarn of Africa Express, the acclaimed collaborative music project. (Pictured: Talking to refugees in Iraq fleeing Islamic State)... Read More.

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