principiascientificinternational--2020-10-16--Open Letter to Scotland’s First Minister on mishandling of Coronavirus

Open Letter to Scotland ’ s First Minister on mishandling of Coronavirus Dear First Minister Nicola Sturgeon , MSP , This open letter is to express my anger at your government ’ s unscientific mishandling of the Coronavirus crisis .
You talked in the early days of having “ an adult conversation ” with the Scottish people but we are still waiting .
We have listened to many words from you over recent months so I hope you will do me the courtesy of reading all of this necessarily longish email – Coronavirus is a complicated subject .
When we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , most people accepted that the uncertainties justified a lockdown for a few weeks in order “ to flatten the curve ” and avoid overwhelming the NHS , having seen how Covid chaos unfolded in the Italian health system .
The problem is that almost seven months later , science , logic and rationality seem to have gone out of the window .
The UK Coronavirus epidemic effectively ended back around July with herd immunity largely achieved because the immunity threshold turns out to be much lower than was originally thought possible , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the general population .
Instead of accepting this changed scientific reality you are bent on prolonging lockdown restrictions to suppress the virus when it has already subsided naturally to a level where flu and pneumonia are currently killing far more than Covid , as shown below by the following : This email is to express my anger at your unscientific mishandling of the Coronavirus crisis .
You talked in the early days of having “ an adult conversation ” with the Scottish people but we are still waiting .
We have listened @ @ @ @ @ @ @ months so I hope you will do me the courtesy of reading all of this necessarily longish email – Coronavirus is a complicated subject .
When we were suddenly confronted with this new virus , most people accepted that the uncertainties justified a lockdown for a few weeks in order to “ flatten the curve ” and avoid overwhelming the NHS , having seen how Covid chaos unfolded in the Italian health system .
The problem is that almost seven months later , science , logic and rationality seem to have gone out @ @ @ @ @ @ @ epidemic effectively ended back around July with herd immunity largely achieved because the immunity threshold turns out to be much lower than was originally thought possible , mainly because of natural T-cell cross immunity in the general population .
Instead of accepting this changed scientific reality you are bent on prolonging lockdown restrictions to suppress the virus when it has already subsided naturally to a level where flu and pneumonia are currently killing far more than Covid , as shown below by the latest ONS data for England and Wales .
Your disregard @ @ @ @ @ @ @ damage caused by your disproportionate measures is unfathomable .
I can only think that you know in your heart of hearts that the original lockdown was a disastrous overreaction but you can ’ t bring yourself to admit it , so you double down by imposing “ fanfare ” restrictions in the hope that you can bluff your way through it , hoping you can convince the brainwashed public that your measures did the trick when normality finally returns .
Political lack of understanding and denial of reality ( or is it all @ @ @ @ @ @ @ incredible that seemingly the entire political class , their advisors and the MSM can be so hopelessly at sea in their lack of understanding of Covid herd immunity and the illusory second wave created by the problems of PCR testing and the normal autumn increase in respiratory illnesses .
It ’ s like watching them debate “ climate change ” , so muddled in their scientific illiteracy .
I don ’ t know if it is down to lack of technical competency or if it ’ s just an act to cover up @ @ @ @ @ @ @ if it is motivated by something more sinister , e.g .
the so-called “ Great Reset ” .
Whatever the reason , it makes me very angry and very sad for the future of the country .
The graph of Scottish Covid-19 weekly deaths copied below with annotations for context shows that your frantic ratcheting up of restrictions over the summer has had negligible impact on the naturally near-flat curve of Covid deaths and that there is no cause for panic going into winter .
The latest weekly Covid death toll shows a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that your latest restrictions are essential , otherwise “ we are likely to return to the peak level of infections that we had in the spring by the end of this month ” .
This is even more far-fetched than the already-failed projection from Professors Whitty and Vallance that UK cases could reach 50,000 by mid-October , although not as intelligence-insulting as UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock ’ s hysterical claim that “ hundreds of thousands of deaths ” could follow if the virus is allowed to “ rip through ” the country @ @ @ @ @ @ @ – a Gompertz-type curve typical of natural biological phenomena , a very steep rise followed by a slower steady fall – has been replicated ( with seasonal variations ) in every country stricken by Covid regardless of the degree of lockdown imposed , or not in the case of Sweden , Belarus , Brazil and several states in America .
This signature trajectory was identified early in 2020 by Nobel laureate Prof Michael Levitt but he was widely ignored .
For a full explanation , see this must-watch video with over 1.5 million @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Prolonging the lockdown has most probably been counter-productive , merely delaying ( at huge collateral damage cost ) the eventual attainment of endemic equilibrium .
A paper published in the Lancet and five other published papers ( says Ivor Cummins ) have all found that lockdowns are ineffective .
New York data showed that the majority of new infections occurred in the locked-down population .
There have been no credible published papers to show that lockdowns are in any way effective ; if there had been the lockdown ideologues would have proclaimed them @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the proven non-efficacy of lockdowns , the scientific reality is that what you are now presiding over is not an incipient “ second wave ” but a relatively harmless so-called casedemic , shown in the graph below of Scottish Covid-19 daily cases .
The number of positive test results ( “ cases ” ) has soared as mass testing has been ramped up but the fact that the above deaths graph has flatlined over the same period ( average elapsed time from infection to death is about 3 weeks ) shows that very @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to genuine , serious , transmissible infections .
This is unambiguously shown by analyst Tony Heller in his video featuring a graph of superimposed UK cases ( blue ) and deaths ( red ) , copied below .
It shows how the rising trend in cases back in March was followed within a few short weeks by the rising trend in deaths yet the dramatic rise in “ cases ” from the end of August has had only a tiny , autumnal impact on the flatlining level of deaths .
The major unscientific @ @ @ @ @ @ @ most of the Western establishment , is that the PCR antigen test which is being used to direct national Covid policy is wholly unsuitable for population screening to diagnose Covid-19 infections , as your national clinical director let slip , a political embarrassment which you covered up by dissembling .
The PCR test is a useful locating tool in the early stages of an epidemic but is of limited use in the later stages when prevalence is low .
As illustrated below by analyst Ivor Cummins talking to Julia Hartley-Brewer , the problem @ @ @ @ @ @ @ amplification process , the PCR test will find many false positives from old viral fragments ( not necessarily Covid ) , it will find people who had the illness perhaps months previously but who are no longer infectious and it will find people who have an extremely low viral load of negligible significance or transmissibility .
( The latter would have been present in April but most cases would not have been detected because of the low level of testing at that time ) .
On top of these it will find a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ potentially serious and transmissible infections .
The PCR test counts all these sub-cases ( A+B+C+D on the graphic below ) when only D “ concerning positive ” is relevant , leading to a possible overestimate by a factor of about ten-fold or even more ( ref .
Dr Mike Yeadon ) .
If mortality is relatively low this creates a “ casedemic ” where aside from the huge flurry of positive test “ cases ” there is nothing very untoward going on .
If you politicians carry on like this with your unscientific @ @ @ @ @ @ @ all winter in a never-ending illusory epidemic ( ref .
Prof Carl Heneghan ) with huge ongoing collateral damages .
It is a disgrace that the biased , fear-mongering MSM , especially the BBC , ignores this casedemic phenomenon and carelessly ( or deliberately ? )
mixes up the terms ( PCR ) “ cases ” and “ infections ” .
Most politicians ( e.g .
Starmer ) are just as bad , being by nature relatively weak on technical analysis ( just as many of them haven ’ t a clue about @ @ @ @ @ @ @ engineering ) .
The vast majority of the Covid-19 mortalities have involved the very old , mostly with serious pre-existing conditions while the young are barely touched by it , an almost thousand-fold difference in severity between old and young .
This makes your application of restrictions to the entire healthy population particularly perverse .
You seem to have forgotten that you said in the early days that we would probably have to learn to live with the virus , all the more apt now with the recent revelation that the vaccines currently @ @ @ @ @ @ @ more than a glorified version of Lemsip .
The publicly-stated initial UK approach to handling Coronavirus was to work towards herd immunity using social distancing and hygiene measures in line with the standard WHO guidelines .
This was clearly working as the rate of infection had already begun to fall before lockdown was imposed , as acknowledged by Prof Whitty to a select committee in July .
Unfortunately this approach was overtaken by full lockdown after Prof Neil Ferguson came out with his grossly-exaggerated predictions of Covid mortality .
Nobel laureate Prof Michael @ @ @ @ @ @ @ tell him that his predictions were too high by a factor of ten ( now proven ) but he got no reply .
Fast forward to now and UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock similarly refuses to debate the issue .
He misrepresents the herd immunity approach as “ letting the virus rip ” through the population and insultingly implies that anyone who supports this approach is callously willing to let thousands of grannies die , seemingly oblivious to the fact that herd immunity has already been largely achieved .
Meanwhile , many thousands @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the monomaniacal focus on Covid-19 .
Respiratory illnesses are slowly increasing as is normal in autumn ( ref .
Prof Carl Heneghan ) and deaths can sadly be expected to keep increasing , but we need to keep things in perspective .
It is not unusual for respiratory illness hospital admissions to double from late summer to the peak in December and January .
Also , the numbers are being fiddled .
The NHS is always stretched in winter but at least we now have the new Nightingale hospitals ( except that yours @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Any impending stress on hospital capacity will sadly be down to NHS unpreparedness .
The Covid data from France and Spain who are several weeks ahead of us show that their alleged second waves are turning out to be largely the normal seasonal increase .
The much-hyped major second wave is a fiction promoted by the fear-mongering media as there is no scientific evidence ( ref .
Dr Mike Yeadon ) from decades of experience of coronaviruses that any such second wave ever occurs .
You may learn something useful from this video @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is planning to sue the WHO through a class action lawsuit in the USA for Covid fraud , which he dramatically describes as “ the greatest crime against humanity ever committed ” .
The misuse of PCR testing is central to his case for the prosecution ( 23 minutes in ) .
Talking of class action lawsuits , I won ’ t need to remind you that your own record on Covid-19 care home deaths probably ranks among the worst in the world on a per head of population basis .
It is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ conversation ” on Covid that you promised months ago , or even an honest debate .
Instead of the unscientific pretence that we can suppress or even eliminate the virus ( to do that we would have to isolate everyone in their own private bubble , clearly not a realistic option for the modern world ) , we need a realistic plan for living with it ( says IDS ) .
We could follow the USA in backing the Great Barrington Declaration already signed by thousands of health scientists and doctors around the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ focused protection ” , although the UK government has already poured cold water on it with the profoundly unscientific UK Heath Minister tweeting “ there is no such thing as herd immunity ” .
To add to the establishment ’ s discomfiture , one of the originators of the declaration has co-authored a new article saying that “ contrary to conventional public health wisdom , most of the hope placed on contact tracing efforts to control the epidemic is ultimately futile ” .
We would do well by copying Sweden , much @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lockdown supporters but judged to be the “ gold standard ” of epidemic management by expert analysist Ivor Cummins .
They are now “ home dry ” after minimal Covid lockdown , minimal school disruption and no face masks .
Ironically ( and tellingly ) , Sweden only achieved this because the Swedish constitution prohibits their politicians from infringing on basic human rights such as freedom of movement .
The current crisis is put into perspective by this graph of Sweden deaths since 1851 .
It shows that many years over past decades @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , surprisingly , that Swedish mortality summed over 2019-2020 has been close to average .
We don ’ t lock down the economy for an outbreak of influenza or pneumonia ( currently far worse than Covid ) .
Surely all that is needed at this stage of Coronavirus is adherence to a sensible mantra such as “ Wash , Face and Space ” coupled with shielding and protecting of the vulnerable .
It ’ s time to stop the scaremongering propaganda and allow things to get back to something like normal , as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to go off on a slight but I believe important tangent , it is striking to observe how the abuse of science on Coronavirus perpetrated by you , your advisors and most of the Western establishment mirrors the abuse of science on the similarly contentious issue of alleged man-made global warming .
The two graphs below show how the UN IPCC ’ s exaggerated predictions of runaway global warming mirror Professor Neil Ferguson ’ s exaggerated predictions of runaway Covid-19 deaths , e.g .
500,00 in the UK and 40,000 in Sweden , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 6,000 .
Both of these dubious modellings were swallowed by the groupthinking establishment as gospel , unscientifically dismissing a wealth of contrarian empirical evidence .
In the same vein , scaremongering talk of a scientifically-unjustified “ climate emergency ” is matched by hysteria about an imagined Covid “ second wave ” .
Ditto the brainwashing of the general public by “ Project Fear ” propaganda and the general refusal of politicians to engage in honest public debate on either subject .
Anything to protect the precious “ official ” political narrative , no @ @ @ @ @ @ @ overreactions differ only on timescales .
It has taken just months for the Covid overreaction to bring the economy to its knees while the cold light of reality is already disproving the unscientific scaremongering .
The climate change overreaction has been building up for many years and it is surely only a matter of time before the lights go out , as realists have been warning for years .
When are you going to start following proper science rather than the selective , obviously-flawed science which supports your ulterior political agendas at huge @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ?
Your ulterior agenda on Covid is difficult to discern but given that your mantra is “ independence transcends everything ” , it probably has something warped to do with that , if only to try to come out of the crisis supposedly “ better ” ( more authoritarian ? )
than Boris Johnson .
To paraphrase Shakespeare in a topical imprecation , “ a plague on all groupthinking politicians ” !

Open Letter to Scotland’s First Minister on mishandling of Coronavirus
Written by Doug Brodie
Dear First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, MSP, This open letter is to express my anger at your government’s unscientific mishandling of the Coronavirus crisis. You talked in the early days of having “an adult conversation” with the Scottish people but we are still waiting.
We have listened to many words from you over recent months so I hope you will do me the courtesy of reading all of this necessarily longish email – Coronavirus is a complicated subject.
Instead of accepting data showing lower mortality you are bent on prolonging lockdown restrictions to suppress the virus when it has already subsided naturally to a level where flu and pneumonia are currently killing far more than Covid, as shown below by the following:
Unscientific mishandling of Coronavirus
Summary of the problem
When we were suddenly confronted with this new virus, most people accepted that the uncertainties justified a lockdown for a few weeks in order to “flatten the curve” and avoid overwhelming the NHS, having seen how Covid chaos unfolded in the Italian health system.
The problem is that almost seven months later, science, logic and rationality seem to have gone out of the window. The UK Coronavirus epidemic effectively ended back around July with herd immunity largely achieved because the immunity threshold turns out to be much lower than was originally thought possible, mainly because of natural T-cell cross immunity in the general population.
The hard evidence is that flu and pneumonia are currently killing far more than Covid, as shown below by the latest ONS data for England and Wales.
Your disregard for the science and the societal collateral damage caused by your disproportionate measures is unfathomable. I can only think that you know in your heart of hearts that the original lockdown was a disastrous overreaction but you can’t bring yourself to admit it, so you double down by imposing “fanfare” restrictions in the hope that you can bluff your way through it, hoping you can convince the brainwashed public that your measures did the trick when normality finally returns.
Political lack of understanding and denial of reality (or is it all an act?)
I find it incredible that seemingly the entire political class, their advisors and the MSM can be so hopelessly at sea in their lack of understanding of Covid herd immunity and the illusory second wave created by the problems of PCR testing and the normal autumn increase in respiratory illnesses.
It’s like watching them debate “climate change”, so muddled in their scientific illiteracy. I don’t know if it is down to lack of technical competency or if it’s just an act to cover up the panicked initial lockdown overreaction or even if it is motivated by something more sinister, e.g. the so-called “Great Reset”. Whatever the reason, it makes me very angry and very sad for the future of the country.
The graph of Scottish Covid-19 weekly deaths copied below with annotations for context shows that your frantic ratcheting up of restrictions over the summer has had negligible impact on the naturally near-flat curve of Covid deaths and that there is no cause for panic going into winter.
The latest weekly Covid death toll shows a small rise to 25 yet you claim that your latest restrictions are essential, otherwise “we are likely to return to the peak level of infections that we had in the spring by the end of this month”. This is even more far-fetched than the already-failed projection from Professors Whitty and Vallance that UK cases could reach 50,000 by mid-October, although not as intelligence-insulting as UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock’s hysterical claim that “hundreds of thousands of deaths” could follow if the virus is allowed to “rip through” the country again.
The above Covid mortality graph – a Gompertz-type curve typical of natural biological phenomena, a very steep rise followed by a slower steady fall – has been replicated (with seasonal variations) in every country stricken by Covid regardless of the degree of lockdown imposed, or not in the case of Sweden, Belarus, Brazil and several states in America. This signature trajectory was identified early in 2020 by Nobel laureate Prof Michael Levitt but he was widely ignored. For a full explanation, see this must-watch video with over 1.5 million views by expert analyst Ivor Cummins.
Prolonging the lockdown has most probably been counter-productive, merely delaying (at huge collateral damage cost) the eventual attainment of endemic equilibrium. A paper published in the Lancet and five other published papers (says Ivor Cummins) have all found that lockdowns are ineffective. New York data showed that the majority of new infections occurred in the locked-down population. There have been no credible published papers to show that lockdowns are in any way effective; if there had been the lockdown ideologues would have proclaimed them to the rafters.
Quite apart from the proven non-efficacy of lockdowns, the scientific reality is that what you are now presiding over is not an incipient “second wave” but a relatively harmless so-called casedemic, shown in the graph below of Scottish Covid-19 daily cases. The number of positive test results (“cases”) has soared as mass testing has been ramped up but the fact that the above deaths graph has flatlined over the same period (average elapsed time from infection to death is about 3 weeks) shows that very few of these “cases” equate to genuine, serious, transmissible infections.
This is unambiguously shown by analyst Tony Heller in his video featuring a graph of superimposed UK cases (blue) and deaths (red), copied below. It shows how the rising trend in cases back in March was followed within a few short weeks by the rising trend in deaths yet the dramatic rise in “cases” from the end of August has had only a tiny, autumnal impact on the flatlining level of deaths.
The major unscientific flaw in your strategy, shared by most of the Western establishment, is that the PCR antigen test which is being used to direct national Covid policy is wholly unsuitable for population screening to diagnose Covid-19 infections, as your national clinical director let slip, a political embarrassment which you covered up by dissembling. The PCR test is a useful locating tool in the early stages of an epidemic but is of limited use in the later stages when prevalence is low.
As illustrated below by analyst Ivor Cummins talking to Julia Hartley-Brewer, the problem is that by the nature of its amplification process, the PCR test will find many false positives from old viral fragments (not necessarily Covid), it will find people who had the illness perhaps months previously but who are no longer infectious and it will find people who have an extremely low viral load of negligible significance or transmissibility. (The latter would have been present in April but most cases would not have been detected because of the low level of testing at that time). On top of these it will find a small number of genuine, symptomatic, potentially serious and transmissible infections.
The PCR test counts all these sub-cases (A+B+C+D on the graphic below) when only D “concerning positive” is relevant, leading to a possible overestimate by a factor of about ten-fold or even more (ref. Dr Mike Yeadon). If mortality is relatively low this creates a “casedemic” where aside from the huge flurry of positive test “cases” there is nothing very untoward going on.
If you politicians carry on like this with your unscientific denial of reality we could be stuck all winter in a never-ending illusory epidemic (ref. Prof Carl Heneghan) with huge ongoing collateral damages.
It is a disgrace that the biased, fear-mongering MSM, especially the BBC, ignores this casedemic phenomenon and carelessly (or deliberately?) mixes up the terms (PCR) “cases” and “infections”. Most politicians (e.g. Starmer) are just as bad, being by nature relatively weak on technical analysis (just as many of them haven’t a clue about “climate change” and energy infrastructure engineering).
Looking ahead
The vast majority of the Covid-19 mortalities have involved the very old, mostly with serious pre-existing conditions while the young are barely touched by it, an almost thousand-fold difference in severity between old and young. This makes your application of restrictions to the entire healthy population particularly perverse. You seem to have forgotten that you said in the early days that we would probably have to learn to live with the virus, all the more apt now with the recent revelation that the vaccines currently under trial are likely to be little more than a glorified version of Lemsip.
The publicly-stated initial UK approach to handling Coronavirus was to work towards herd immunity using social distancing and hygiene measures in line with the standard WHO guidelines. This was clearly working as the rate of infection had already begun to fall before lockdown was imposed, as acknowledged by Prof Whitty to a select committee in July. Unfortunately this approach was overtaken by full lockdown after Prof Neil Ferguson came out with his grossly-exaggerated predictions of Covid mortality. Nobel laureate Prof Michael Levitt wrote to Ferguson in March to tell him that his predictions were too high by a factor of ten (now proven) but he got no reply.
Fast forward to now and UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock similarly refuses to debate the issue. He misrepresents the herd immunity approach as “letting the virus rip” through the population and insultingly implies that anyone who supports this approach is callously willing to let thousands of grannies die, seemingly oblivious to the fact that herd immunity has already been largely achieved. Meanwhile, many thousands are dying of other causes due to the monomaniacal focus on Covid-19.
Respiratory illnesses are slowly increasing as is normal in autumn (ref. Prof Carl Heneghan) and deaths can sadly be expected to keep increasing, but we need to keep things in perspective. It is not unusual for respiratory illness hospital admissions to double from late summer to the peak in December and January. Also, the numbers are being fiddled. The NHS is always stretched in winter but at least we now have the new Nightingale hospitals (except that yours is due to be dismantled). Any impending stress on hospital capacity will sadly be down to NHS unpreparedness. The Covid data from France and Spain who are several weeks ahead of us show that their alleged second waves are turning out to be largely the normal seasonal increase. The much-hyped major second wave is a fiction promoted by the fear-mongering media as there is no scientific evidence (ref. Dr Mike Yeadon) from decades of experience of coronaviruses that any such second wave ever occurs.
You may learn something useful from this video of a German lawyer explaining why he is planning to sue the WHO through a class action lawsuit in the USA for Covid fraud, which he dramatically describes as “the greatest crime against humanity ever committed”. The misuse of PCR testing is central to his case for the prosecution (23 minutes in).
Talking of class action lawsuits, I won’t need to remind you that your own record on Covid-19 care home deaths probably ranks among the worst in the world on a per head of population basis.
It is high time we had the “adult conversation” on Covid that you promised months ago, or even an honest debate. Instead of the unscientific pretence that we can suppress or even eliminate the virus (to do that we would have to isolate everyone in their own private bubble, clearly not a realistic option for the modern world), we need a realistic plan for living with it (says IDS).
We could follow the USA in backing the Great Barrington Declaration already signed by thousands of health scientists and doctors around the world recommending the alternative approach they call “focused protection”, although the UK government has already poured cold water on it with the profoundly unscientific UK Heath Minister tweeting “there is no such thing as herd immunity”. To add to the establishment’s discomfiture, one of the originators of the declaration has co-authored a new article saying that “contrary to conventional public health wisdom, most of the hope placed on contact tracing efforts to control the epidemic is ultimately futile”.
We would do well by copying Sweden, much abused by misinformed (or dissembling) lockdown supporters but judged to be the “gold standard” of epidemic management by expert analysist Ivor Cummins. They are now “home dry” after minimal Covid lockdown, minimal school disruption and no face masks. Ironically (and tellingly), Sweden only achieved this because the Swedish constitution prohibits their politicians from infringing on basic human rights such as freedom of movement.
The current crisis is put into perspective by this graph of Sweden deaths since 1851. It shows that many years over past decades have been far worse than 2020 and, surprisingly, that Swedish mortality summed over 2019-2020 has been close to average. We don’t lock down the economy for an outbreak of influenza or pneumonia (currently far worse than Covid). Surely all that is needed at this stage of Coronavirus is adherence to a sensible mantra such as “Wash, Face and Space” coupled with shielding and protecting of the vulnerable. It’s time to stop the scaremongering propaganda and allow things to get back to something like normal, as currently prevailing in Sweden.
The ongoing problem of political groupthink
Finally, to go off on a slight but I believe important tangent, it is striking to observe how the abuse of science on Coronavirus perpetrated by you, your advisors and most of the Western establishment mirrors the abuse of science on the similarly contentious issue of alleged man-made global warming.
The two graphs below show how the UN IPCC’s exaggerated predictions of runaway global warming mirror Professor Neil Ferguson’s exaggerated predictions of runaway Covid-19 deaths, e.g. 500,00 in the UK and 40,000 in Sweden, actual Swedish outcome with minimal lockdown about 6,000.
Both of these dubious modellings were swallowed by the groupthinking establishment as gospel, unscientifically dismissing a wealth of contrarian empirical evidence.
In the same vein, scaremongering talk of a scientifically-unjustified “climate emergency” is matched by hysteria about an imagined Covid “second wave”. Ditto the brainwashing of the general public by “Project Fear” propaganda and the general refusal of politicians to engage in honest public debate on either subject. Anything to protect the precious “official” political narrative, no matter the cost.
These two political overreactions differ only on timescales. It has taken just months for the Covid overreaction to bring the economy to its knees while the cold light of reality is already disproving the unscientific scaremongering. The climate change overreaction has been building up for many years and it is surely only a matter of time before the lights go out, as realists have been warning for years.
When are you going to start following proper science rather than the selective, obviously-flawed science which supports your ulterior political agendas at huge cost to the wellbeing of the country? Your ulterior agenda on Covid is difficult to discern but given that your mantra is “independence transcends everything”, it probably has something warped to do with that, if only to try to come out of the crisis supposedly “better” (more authoritarian?) than Boris Johnson.
To paraphrase Shakespeare in a topical imprecation, “a plague on all groupthinking politicians”!
Yours faithfully,
Douglas Brodie, Nairn, 15th October 2020
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“ Because of the limits of low temperature , materials with such extraordinary properties have not quite transformed the world @ @ @ @ @ might have imagined , ” said Dr Ranga Dias , from the University of Rochester @ @ @ @ @ .

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principiascientificinternational--2020-10-16--The Worldwide List of Alternative Theories and Critics

The Worldwide List of Alternative Theories and Critics For all readers interested in investigating and learning more about alternative science theories and relevant critics who are otherwise de-platformed or shunned by the media , Jean de Climont offers an excellent and comprehensive , free-to-access-online compendium .
Synopsis : This directory , available exclusively in English , includes scientists who propose alternative theories or who disagree on generally accepted positions exclusively in the field of physics ( natural philosophy ) , found on the Internet .
The listing comprises over 9500 names of which over 70 % are scientists , doctors @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in summary together with their proposed alternative theory , when applicable .
There are more than 2500 authors of such theories , all amazingly very different from one another .
Climont ’ s compendium comprises a staggering 2679 pages .
This book is covered by copyrights but short citations are allowed if reference is made to the author .
Jean de Climont has advised Principia Scientific International that he is currently preparing a new video on the topic of the failure of pure science .
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The Worldwide List of Alternative Theories and Critics
Written by Jean de Climont
For all readers interested in investigating and learning more about alternative science theories and relevant critics who are otherwise de-platformed or shunned by the media, Jean de Climont offers an excellent and comprehensive, free-to-access-online compendium.
Synopsis : This directory, available exclusively in English, includes scientists who propose alternative theories or who disagree on generally accepted positions exclusively in the field of physics (natural philosophy), found on the Internet.
The listing comprises over 9500 names of which over 70% are scientists, doctors and engineers. Their position is presented in summary together with their proposed alternative theory, when applicable. There are more than 2500 authors of such theories, all amazingly very different from one another.
Climont’s compendium comprises a staggering 2679 pages. This book is covered by copyrights but short citations are allowed if reference is made to the author.
Jean de Climont has advised Principia Scientific International that he is currently preparing a new video on the topic of the failure of pure science. We look forward to sharing it with our readers as soon as it is published.
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principiascientificinternational--2020-10-16--Top Lawyer: Prosecute COVID Promoters for Crimes Against Humanity

A top German trial lawyer has called for Covid fraud perpetrators jailed for “ probably the greatest crime against humanity ever committed.
” Dr. Reinger Fuellmich is a lawyer known for corruption trials against Deutsche Bank and Volkswagen .
For 26 years , Dr Reiner Fuellmich has been a lawyer in Germany and California .
He ’ s one of four members of the German Corona Investigative Committee .
In this video from October 3rd , 2020 , he describes how there is no legal doubt about the possibility of a class-action lawsuit against those responsible for the lockdowns .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ juiciest bit of his video ( full videos below ) .
Basically , he argues that the pharmaceutical companies have an interest in perpetrating Covid panic because they are raking in record profits from healthcare supplies , tests , vaccines , et cetera .
The lawyer asserts that the coronavirus has not led to any excess mortality , whereas the lockdowns have led to drastic increases in excess mortality .
Covid could be the greatest scam since Dr. Fauci misled the American public about the nature of the HIV virus .
What do @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
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Top Lawyer: Prosecute COVID Promoters for Crimes Against Humanity
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A top German trial lawyer has called for Covid fraud perpetrators jailed for “probably the greatest crime against humanity ever committed.” Dr. Reinger Fuellmich is a lawyer known for corruption trials against Deutsche Bank and Volkswagen.
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For 26 years, Dr Reiner Fuellmich has been a lawyer in Germany and California. He’s one of four members of the German Corona Investigative Committee. In this video from October 3rd, 2020, he describes how there is no legal doubt about the possibility of a class-action lawsuit against those responsible for the lockdowns. [Bitchute]
Basically, he argues that the pharmaceutical companies have an interest in perpetrating Covid panic because they are raking in record profits from healthcare supplies, tests, vaccines, et cetera.
PSI editor update (October 29, 2020). We had originally posted Dr Fuellmich’s video from Youtube but the fascist censorship policy of the monopolized social media removed it. Instead, we have the same video from Bitchute below:
The lawyer asserts that the coronavirus has not led to any excess mortality, whereas the lockdowns have led to drastic increases in excess mortality. What do you think? Please chime in below.
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principiascientificinternational--2020-10-16--Lipsticks and other Needs – out of this world

Lipsticks and other Needs – out of this world Have you seen the recent “ space ” news , for example at www.npr.org the “ inmates ” of the International Space Station ( ISS ) , finally got a new toilet and some needed or desirable toiletries along with that .
At a cost of $ 21 million ( ex installation ! )
, that throne surely must be something special .
Of course , everyone needs one or the other when it ’ s time .
Furthermore , who would want to deny the female ISS-companions ( is that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ? )
their accustomed necessities to get gussied up ?
Although I wonder about the present complement on the ISS ; according to NASA , there are currently ( as of Oct. 12 , 2020 ) only three male astronauts on board .
In addition to the gifts , the purveyor of such benefits is reaching into her ( ? )
deep pockets , at the tune of $ 17,500 per hour ( hour of what is not clear ) to support these vital lipstick- ( + ) accoutrements .
Clearly , space @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Why would the astronauts even want to return to Earth ?
There ’ s just a little fly in the ointment : According to the report above , “ Even if the astronauts wanted to record themselves using the product — a la the Get Ready With Me videos that many an influencer has posted to YouTube to show off their beauty routines — they wouldn ’ t be able to .
As government employees , they ’ re restricted from participating in sponsoring products.
” Except for the proviso : ” That @ @ @ @ @ @ @ strangers to commercial and marketing activities — something NASA has set aside 90 hours of crew time for .
In 2019 , for example , DoubleTree by Hilton sent their chocolate chip cookies up to the Space Station to be the first food baked in space.
” Can you imagine , here , on Planet Earth , there are still many folks that think of lipstick as non-essential to their attire and feeling good .
Estée et al .
are working hard to correct such shortcomings and to keep those good feelings alive @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to a one of the larger drugstores and survey the racks of offerings .
Not likely that you will find a greater palette of reddish colors and hues anywhere else .
Speaking of colors and hues , you may want to do some testing of your eye sight and color perception .
There is a simple and free “ X-Rite Color Challenge and Hue Test ” available you might like to try at https : //www.xrite.com/hue-test with ten hue graduations each for four major colors ; one example shown below .
It ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , of help to you .
All you need to do is to push the squares into the right sequence of hue .
I do recommend using a high-resolution screen to see the nuances .
Once finished , you can get the score for yourself and gender/age group .
However , if you prefer to see a real colorful world , now is the right time to visit the hardwood forests in the more northern climes .
From soft yellows to deep crimson reds , the birch and maple trees are blossoming in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a feast for the eyes of the beholder .
But don ’ t wait too long to view these vistas .
Once rain , fall storms and frost set in , nature ’ s color-extravaganza comes to an abrupt end In any event , it ’ s fall and winter is coming soon .
Of course , for some people the latter has arrived already with snow and ice , even in the southern hemisphere that is going towards summer time .
That ’ s why the world is blessed with abundant carbon/hydrocarbon @ @ @ @ @ @ @ www.iceagenow.info states , “ Fossil fuels are the greatest gift mankind , and the planet , ever could have hoped for.
” Yes , indeed !
After WWII , controlled nuclear n-power certainly has become a major energy source too .
Despite the research advances , nuclear -power is still a dream ; perhaps it will never come to be “ perfected.
” Until then , carbon , in its various forms will continue to dominate the world ’ s energy consumption .
The newly touted “ Hydrogen-Economy , ” IMHO , will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sooner or later , be destroying the basis of the “ old world ” economy .
Mankind simply could not have existed without “ fossil fuels !
” Even our ancient ancestors , making a meager living in caves , were using wood or peat for preparing food over fire pits and heat in ” Longhouses.
” The typical life expectancy then , roughly , was 30 years or less – even without any imported Corona-type virus anywhere to cope with .
There were many obstacles that limited life .
Even in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of approximately 1000 years between the years 500 and 1500 A.D. , virulent diseases , warfare , lack of nourishment ( including vitamins and disease-fighting drugs ) , and readily available heating , entire countries were ravished by one or more of such problems .
It all changed , slowly , with the Renaissance and the myriad of inventions including ways to use carbon fuels for heat and energy for work by the many scholars , explorers , and buccaneers that made a living then .
Yes , even pirates had to be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to be successful .
Life must go on — and it will – as long as there is sufficient carbon dioxide in the atmosphere !

Lipsticks and other Needs – out of this world
Written by Dr Klaus L E Kaiser
Have you seen the recent “space” news, for example at www.npr.org the “inmates” of the International Space Station (ISS), finally got a new toilet and some needed or desirable toiletries along with that. At a cost of $21 million ( ex installation! ), that throne surely must be something special.
Of course, everyone needs one or the other when it’s time.
Furthermore, who would want to deny the female ISS-companions (is that still a politically correct term — ??) their accustomed necessities to get gussied up? Although I wonder about the present complement on the ISS; according to NASA, there are currently (as of Oct. 12, 2020) only three male astronauts on board.
In addition to the gifts, the purveyor of such benefits is reaching into her (?) deep pockets, at the tune of $17,500 per hour (hour of what is not clear) to support these vital lipstick-(+) accoutrements.
Clearly, space exploration has never been so exciting. Why would the astronauts even want to return to Earth? There’s just a little fly in the ointment: According to the report above, “Even if the astronauts wanted to record themselves using the product — a la the Get Ready With Me videos that many an influencer has posted to YouTube to show off their beauty routines — they wouldn’t be able to. As government employees, they’re restricted from participating in sponsoring products.”
What a bummer!
Except for the proviso: ”That doesn’t mean they’re strangers to commercial and marketing activities — something NASA has set aside 90 hours of crew time for. In 2019, for example, DoubleTree by Hilton sent their chocolate chip cookies up to the Space Station to be the first food baked in space.”
Back on Earth
Can you imagine, here, on Planet Earth, there are still many folks that think of lipstick as non-essential to their attire and feeling good. Estée et al. are working hard to correct such shortcomings and to keep those good feelings alive here and in space. Just go to a one of the larger drugstores and survey the racks of offerings. Not likely that you will find a greater palette of reddish colors and hues anywhere else.
Speaking of colors and hues, you may want to do some testing of your eye sight and color perception. There is a simple and free “X-Rite Color Challenge and Hue Test” available you might like to try at https://www.xrite.com/hue-test with ten hue graduations each for four major colors; one example shown below.
Hue/color sorting test at www.xrite.com
It’s fun, educational and, perhaps, of help to you. All you need to do is to push the squares into the right sequence of hue. I do recommend using a high-resolution screen to see the nuances. Once finished, you can get the score for yourself and gender/age group.
However, if you prefer to see a real colorful world, now is the right time to visit the hardwood forests in the more northern climes. From soft yellows to deep crimson reds, the birch and maple trees are blossoming in their fall colors. It’s a feast for the eyes of the beholder. But don’t wait too long to view these vistas. Once rain, fall storms and frost set in, nature’s color-extravaganza comes to an abrupt end
Winter is Coming
In any event, it’s fall and winter is coming soon. Of course, for some people the latter has arrived already with snow and ice, even in the southern hemisphere that is going towards summer time. That’s why the world is blessed with abundant carbon/hydrocarbon resources.
As a recent post at www.iceagenow.info states, “Fossil fuels are the greatest gift mankind, and the planet, ever could have hoped for.” Yes, indeed!
After WWII, controlled nuclear fissio n-power certainly has become a major energy source too. Despite the research advances, nuclear fusion -power is still a dream; perhaps it will never come to be “perfected.”
Until then, carbon, in its various forms will continue to dominate the world’s energy consumption. The newly touted “Hydrogen-Economy,” IMHO, will be a total failure that will, sooner or later, be destroying the basis of the “old world” economy.
Carbon, Energy, Inventions
Mankind simply could not have existed without “fossil fuels!” Even our ancient ancestors, making a meager living in caves, were using wood or peat for preparing food over fire pits and heat in ”Longhouses.” The typical life expectancy then, roughly, was 30 years or less – even without any imported Corona-type virus anywhere to cope with.
There were many obstacles that limited life. Even in the so-called Middle Ages, a time span of approximately 1000 years between the years 500 and 1500 A.D., virulent diseases, warfare, lack of nourishment (including vitamins and disease-fighting drugs), and readily available heating, entire countries were ravished by one or more of such problems.
It all changed, slowly, with the Renaissance and the myriad of inventions including ways to use carbon fuels for heat and energy for work by the many scholars, explorers, and buccaneers that made a living then. Yes, even pirates had to be “ahead of the game” then to be successful.
Life must go on — and it will – as long as there is sufficient carbon dioxide in the atmosphere!
Dr. Klaus L.E. Kaiser is author of CONVENIENT MYTHS, the green revolution – perceptions, politics, and facts Convenient Myths
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principiascientificinternational--2020-10-16--China Had COVID-Like Patients Months Before Official Timeline

China Had COVID-Like Patients Months Before Official Timeline A series of leaked documents shows that patients in China with symptoms similar to COVID-19 were hospitalized months before the regime ’ s official timeline , throwing into question when exactly the CCP virus began spreading in Wuhan , China ’ s epidemic ground zero .
At least one patient started experiencing COVID-19-like symptoms in September 2019 , according to hospital data obtained by The Epoch Times from a trusted source who has access to government documents .
Dozens more were hospitalized over the following month .
Wuhan hospitals also reported several @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pneumonia , lung infections , and other symptoms similar to COVID-19 patients .
The city ’ s health commission only publicly announced an outbreak of a novel form of pneumonia on Dec. 31 , 2019—after social media posts by whistleblower doctors had gone viral .
In a letter dated Feb. 19 obtained by The Epoch Times , a national investigation team set up by the central government stated that it wished to trace early cases of the disease .
It asked local authorities for data from all Wuhan medical institutions over the period @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2019 , including information on patients who visited fever clinics in the vicinity of the Huanan Seafood Market , a wet market that the officials initially identified as the outbreak origin ; details of the earliest 10 suspected cases at each medical agency rated tier two or above ( three is the highest ) ; and pneumonia deaths with COVID-19-like symptoms .
The letter stated that nine hospitals , which received the most COVID-19 patients in the city , were key to the investigation .
The Epoch Times had access to part of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , those from 11 hospitals .
Despite the collected data , the Wuhan outbreak control task force told media on Feb. 26 that the earliest documented patient was a person surnamed Chen who fell ill on Dec. 8 , 2019 .
It ’ s unclear whether authorities conducted any inquiries into early cases prior to February .
To some critics , the investigation appeared rather narrow and came too late .
“ For such a massive respiratory disease to break out in the area , how come they didn ’ t track down @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , former lab director of the viral disease branch at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research , told The Epoch Times .
“ This should have been done a long time ago , ” he said , calling the delayed inquiry “ ridiculous.
” The obtained records showed nine deaths due to COVID-19-like conditions at three hospitals .
Five were severe pneumonia patients who died between November and December 2019 at the Wuhan No .
6 Hospital , one of the hospitals named in the inquiry letter .
The Wuhan Hospital of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , had three deaths in October .
Wuhan No .
8 Hospital recorded one death .
Patients died within a period of several days to about four weeks after their first symptoms appeared .
Xu Zhenqian , for example , was hospitalized at Wuhan No .
6 hospital .
The 82-year-old started exhibiting symptoms on Oct. 1 , 2019 , including coughing fits without an apparent cause and coughed up white phlegm , a sign of respiratory infection , according to the hospital ’ s clinical description .
The patient was transferred from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Nov. 3 .
Three other patients at the same hospital also had difficulty breathing before they died .
Their CT scans showed blurred markings in their lungs—patterns that match the lesions on some COVID-19 patients .
The files also identified at least 40 other suspected COVID-19 patients across eight hospitals , the earliest one being 67-year-old Xiao Niangui , who began exhibiting symptoms on Sept. 25 , 2019 , and was hospitalized at the Wuhan Puren Jiang ’ an Hospital .
Wuhan has 205 health facilities at the community and township level and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , city officials said in March .
China ’ s lack of transparency has been heavily criticized by government officials .
It consistently refused to allow in experts from the United States and the World Health Organization ( WHO ) to study the outbreak in the country .
On Feb. 12 , an official from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the agency was still unable to access “ direct data ” about the outbreak and “ continue to be hopeful that we ’ ll be invited to do that.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ May 1 , a WHO representative in China also said China has excluded the organization ’ s experts from the country ’ s virus probe .

China Had COVID-Like Patients Months Before Official Timeline
Written by theepochtimes.com
A series of leaked documents shows that patients in China with symptoms similar to COVID-19 were hospitalized months before the regime’s official timeline, throwing into question when exactly the CCP virus began spreading in Wuhan, China’s epidemic ground zero.
At least one patient started experiencing COVID-19-like symptoms in September 2019, according to hospital data obtained by The Epoch Times from a trusted source who has access to government documents. Dozens more were hospitalized over the following month.
Wuhan hospitals also reported several deaths in October 2019 due to severe pneumonia, lung infections, and other symptoms similar to COVID-19 patients.
The city’s health commission only publicly announced an outbreak of a novel form of pneumonia on Dec. 31, 2019—after social media posts by whistleblower doctors had gone viral.
In a letter dated Feb. 19 obtained by The Epoch Times, a national investigation team set up by the central government stated that it wished to trace early cases of the disease. It asked local authorities for data from all Wuhan medical institutions over the period between Oct. 1 to Dec. 10, 2019, including information on patients who visited fever clinics in the vicinity of the Huanan Seafood Market, a wet market that the officials initially identified as the outbreak origin; details of the earliest 10 suspected cases at each medical agency rated tier two or above (three is the highest); and pneumonia deaths with COVID-19-like symptoms.
The letter stated that nine hospitals, which received the most COVID-19 patients in the city, were key to the investigation.
The Epoch Times had access to part of the records in response to the inquiry, those from 11 hospitals.
Despite the collected data, the Wuhan outbreak control task force told media on Feb. 26 that the earliest documented patient was a person surnamed Chen who fell ill on Dec. 8, 2019.
It’s unclear whether authorities conducted any inquiries into early cases prior to February.
To some critics, the investigation appeared rather narrow and came too late. “For such a massive respiratory disease to break out in the area, how come they didn’t track down all other hospitals?” Sean Lin, former lab director of the viral disease branch at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, told The Epoch Times.
“This should have been done a long time ago,” he said, calling the delayed inquiry “ridiculous.”
Suspected Virus Patients
The obtained records showed nine deaths due to COVID-19-like conditions at three hospitals.
Five were severe pneumonia patients who died between November and December 2019 at the Wuhan No. 6 Hospital, one of the hospitals named in the inquiry letter. The Wuhan Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, a tertiary hospital, had three deaths in October. Wuhan No. 8 Hospital recorded one death.
Patients died within a period of several days to about four weeks after their first symptoms appeared.
Xu Zhenqian, for example, was hospitalized at Wuhan No. 6 hospital. The 82-year-old started exhibiting symptoms on Oct. 1, 2019, including coughing fits without an apparent cause and coughed up white phlegm, a sign of respiratory infection, according to the hospital’s clinical description. The patient was transferred from another facility shortly before his death on Nov. 3.
Three other patients at the same hospital also had difficulty breathing before they died. Their CT scans showed blurred markings in their lungs—patterns that match the lesions on some COVID-19 patients.
The files also identified at least 40 other suspected COVID-19 patients across eight hospitals, the earliest one being 67-year-old Xiao Niangui, who began exhibiting symptoms on Sept. 25, 2019, and was hospitalized at the Wuhan Puren Jiang’an Hospital.
Wuhan has 205 health facilities at the community and township level and 66 designated hospitals for treating COVID-19 patients, city officials said in March.
China’s lack of transparency has been heavily criticized by government officials. It consistently refused to allow in experts from the United States and the World Health Organization (WHO) to study the outbreak in the country. On Feb. 12, an official from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the agency was still unable to access “direct data” about the outbreak and “continue to be hopeful that we’ll be invited to do that.”
In a media interview released on May 1, a WHO representative in China also said China has excluded the organization’s experts from the country’s virus probe.
Read more at www.theepochtimes.com
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principiascientificinternational--2020-10-16--NTIA Lawyers File for Judicial Review Against UK Lockdown Lunacy

Leaders in the night-time economy have launched a legal challenge over impending lockdown rules which could see pubs and bars forced to close in coronavirus hotspots .
Night-time economy adviser for Greater Manchester Sacha Lord said lawyers have been instructed to seek a judicial review into any further restrictions on hospitality and entertainment venues across the North of England .
Trade body The Night Time Industries Association ( NTIA ) said the measures have “ no scientific rationale ” and could have a “ catastrophic impact ” on late-night businesses .
It comes as Prime Minister Boris Johnson prepares to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ attempt to curb surging Covid-19 infections , with areas in England labelled as medium , high or very high risk .
Mr Lord , co-creator of the Parklife festival and The Warehouse Project , who is leading the legal action , said leaders in Greater Manchester have not seen “ any tangible scientific evidence to merit a full closure ” of venues in the area .
He said : “ Despite discussions and ongoing calls for data , we have not yet been shown any tangible scientific evidence to merit a full closure @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Greater Manchester .
We have therefore been left with little choice but to escalate the matter further.
” The move is supported by the NTIA , which represents businesses across the night-time economy , and The British Beer and Pub Association , as well as a number of breweries and operators across Greater Manchester .
“ These new measures will have a catastrophic impact on late-night businesses , and are exacerbated further by an insufficient financial support package presented by the Chancellor in an attempt to sustain businesses through this period .
“ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ disproportionate and unjust , with no scientific rationale or correlation to PHE ( Public Health England ) transmission rates , when compared to other key environments.Systematic closure of businesses across the UK must be challenged when there is no clear evidence or reason.
” On Monday , Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden made clear that the Government will resist any legal challenge to closures of pubs and restaurants .
“ I think they will find that if they challenge the Government we do have robust evidence for doing this , ” he told Sky @ @ @ @ @ @ @ there is a higher risk of transmissions in hospitality settings .
There is academic evidence from the United States.
” Mr Dowden told BBC Radio 4 ’ s Today programme that the case for new restrictions on the hospitality sector is supported by the Government ’ s chief scientific adviser , Sir Patrick Vallance .
“ We know there are challenges around hospitality – for example , the obvious point you can ’ t wear a mask when you are sat down and eating , that frequently you are in contact ( with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ normally meet , and we know that the virus thrives on that kind of social interaction , ” he said .
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NTIA Lawyers File for Judicial Review Against UK Lockdown Lunacy
Written by www.expressandstar.com
Leaders in the night-time economy have launched a legal challenge over impending lockdown rules which could see pubs and bars forced to close in coronavirus hotspots.
Night-time economy adviser for Greater Manchester Sacha Lord said lawyers have been instructed to seek a judicial review into any further restrictions on hospitality and entertainment venues across the North of England.
Trade body The Night Time Industries Association (NTIA) said the measures have “no scientific rationale” and could have a “catastrophic impact” on late-night businesses.
It comes as Prime Minister Boris Johnson prepares to set out a three-tier strategy in an attempt to curb surging Covid-19 infections, with areas in England labelled as medium, high or very high risk.
Mr Lord, co-creator of the Parklife festival and The Warehouse Project, who is leading the legal action, said leaders in Greater Manchester have not seen “any tangible scientific evidence to merit a full closure” of venues in the area. He said:
“Despite discussions and ongoing calls for data, we have not yet been shown any tangible scientific evidence to merit a full closure of the hospitality and entertainment sectors across Greater Manchester. We have therefore been left with little choice but to escalate the matter further.”
The move is supported by the NTIA, which represents businesses across the night-time economy, and The British Beer and Pub Association, as well as a number of breweries and operators across Greater Manchester.
Michael Kill, chief executive of NTIA, said: “These new measures will have a catastrophic impact on late-night businesses, and are exacerbated further by an insufficient financial support package presented by the Chancellor in an attempt to sustain businesses through this period.
“This next round of restrictions are hugely disproportionate and unjust, with no scientific rationale or correlation to PHE (Public Health England) transmission rates, when compared to other key environments.Systematic closure of businesses across the UK must be challenged when there is no clear evidence or reason.”
Police on patrol in Liverpool city centre ahead of the 10pm curfew (Peter Byrne/PA)
On Monday, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden made clear that the Government will resist any legal challenge to closures of pubs and restaurants.
“I think they will find that if they challenge the Government we do have robust evidence for doing this,” he told Sky News.
“The evidence shows that there is a higher risk of transmissions in hospitality settings. There is academic evidence from the United States.”
Mr Dowden told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that the case for new restrictions on the hospitality sector is supported by the Government’s chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance.
“We know there are challenges around hospitality – for example, the obvious point you can’t wear a mask when you are sat down and eating, that frequently you are in contact (with people) that you don’t normally meet, and we know that the virus thrives on that kind of social interaction,” he said. Read more at www.expressandstar.com **** Please Donate Below To Support Our Ongoing Work To Expose The Lies About COVID19 PRINCIPIA SCIENTIFIC INTERNATIONAL, legally registered in the UK as a company incorporated for charitable purposes. Head Office: 27 Old Gloucester Street, London WC1N 3AX. Please DONATE TODAY To Help Our Non-Profit Mission To Defend The Scientific Method.
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principiascientificinternational--2020-10-16--The COVID-19 cart is STILL in front of the horse

The COVID-19 cart is STILL in front of the horse Following up on my previous posts , regarding PCR tests and vaccines for SARS CoV-2 ( Covid-19 ) , the cart is still in front of the horse .
Read the CDC document linked below and see for yourself .
Here are a few quotes excerpted from that CDC document dated July , 2020 .
I provided the bolding for emphasis : From the official CDC Covid-19 method document for the PCR Covid-19 test , with revisions ( full citation and link below . )
“ Results are for the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ RNA is generally detectable in upper and lower respiratory specimens during infection .
Positive results are indicative of active infection with 2019-nCoV but do not rule out bacterial infection or co-infection with other viruses .
The agent detected may not be the definite cause of disease .
Laboratories within the United States and its territories are required to report all positive results to the appropriate public health authorities .
Negative results do not preclude 2019-nCoV infection and should not be used as the sole basis for treatment or other patient management decisions .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ observations , patient history , and epidemiological information.
” “ Detection of viral RNA may not indicate the presence of infectious virus or that 2019-nCoV is the causative agent for clinical symptoms.
” “ Since no quantified virus isolates of the 2019-nCoV are currently available , assays designed for detection of the 2019-nCoV RNA were tested with characterized stocks of in vitro transcribed full length RNA ( N gene ; GenBank accession : MN908947.2 ) of known titer ( RNA copies/μL ) spiked into a diluent consisting of a suspension of human A549 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) to mimic clinical specimen.
” Bud ’ s comments : The PCR test has multiple probes designed insilico ( i.e .
in a computer ) from the GenBank sequence database based on the N gene , not from isolated and validated sequence of SARS CoV-2 .
The N gene sequence codes for the glycoprotein coating that encapsulates and protects the RNA in the virus from nucleases in the body which would break apart the RNA sequence of the virus .
The human immune system does not work by recognition of RNA , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and antibodies function by a 3D pattern recognition of the conformation ( or epitope ) of the glyco- ( i.e .
sugar ) groups on the surface of the protein .
These sugar groups are post translational modifications to the protein , that is , the sugar groups are added after the protein has been created from amino acids specified in the template of sequence of nucleotides .
Small changes in the RNA and DNA sequence code ( as small as a single nucleotide , a SNP ) can move a methyl group @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the protein to another position on the protein and result in major changes in the 3D surface of the glyco- groups attached to the protein .
That small change in RNA sequence or sequence homology could completely change the ability of a test or the immune system to recognize a virus .
Or , that change may be and likely is a post translational change due to an entirely different , untested protein molecule , e.g .
a chaperone , with entirely different sequence not found in the PCR test .
These changes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ make major changes in the binding function of the S spike protein , or the conformaton of the glycoprotein coating , or other functions of the protein which in turn can result in major changes in infectivity of the virus .
The changes can also prevent or change recognition of the virus by natural or synthetic antibodies , T-cells and pcr tests .
For example , in this informative recent paper : “ An increasing body of evidence suggests that the tight binding of the S protein to ACE2 is the reason for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ associated with this disease11,12,45 .
This is most evident when comparing the SARS 2002–2004 pandemic with the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic , with 8,098 cases versus over 16 million cases ( 26th July 2020 ) respectively .
Our analysis demonstrated that the SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 S proteins have substantial differences in their ACE2 binding motifs ( 50 % identity ) , which results in an increased number of contacts between the SARS-CoV-2 S protein and ACE2 .
This correlates with the observed 10- to 20-fold higher affinity of the SARS-CoV-2 S protein for ACE2 , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ …the high level of TMPRSS2 similarity between species does not appear to affect viral entry , but instead it is the species-specific differences in the structure of ACE2 that affects SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 infectivity.
” Brooke GN , Prischi F. Structural and functional modelling of SARS-CoV-2 entry in animal models .
Sci Rep. 2020 ; 10 ( 1 ) :15917 .
Published 2020 Sep 28. doi:10.1038/s41598-020-72528-z .
: https : //www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7522990/ Recall that the experiments that were underway at the top security U.S. labs , but ruled too dangerous , and were then @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in Wuhan , China were “ gain of function ” experiments .
The function of infectivity is changed by changing the 3D conformation of proteins .
A synthetic sequence created from a computer model could create a protein vaccine for which some people have no immune defense , essentially a poison .
It bothers me that the world is running millions of PCR tests and antibody tests which have not been validated against the RNA from isolated and filtered SARS CoV-2 virus .
At least , I have not been able to find @ @ @ @ @ @ @ document is very concerning .
And now , without validation against isolated , filtered virus using either standard Koch ’ s or Rivers ’ postulates ( methods which have been used to validate cause for every other epidemic including SARS CoV-1 ) , vaccines are being created based on synthetic sequence designed to cause invivo human cells in the living , healthy patient to produce one or more proteins from the S-spike protein on the virus , but neither this sequence nor the protein it produces has been validated against the sequence or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Billions of dollars are being spent on tests and vaccines which have not been validated against actual SARS CoV-2 .
Does it bother you ?
• CDC 2019-Novel Coronavirus ( 2019-nCoV ) Real-Time RT-PCR Diagnostic Panel For Emergency Use Only Instructions for Use Catalog # 2019-nCoVEUA-01 1000 reactions For In-vitro Diagnostic ( IVD ) Use Rx Only .
Division of Viral Diseases / Respiratory Viruses Branch CDC 2019-nCoV Real-Time RT-PCR Diagnostic Panel – Verification Requirements *** DO NOT DISCARD : Important product-specific information *** Document # : CDC-006-00005Revision # : 05 https @ @ @ @ @ @ @ F. Structural and functional modelling of SARS-CoV-2 entry in animal models .
Sci Rep. 2020 ; 10 ( 1 ) :15917 .
Published 2020 Sep 28. doi:10.1038/s41598-020-72528-z .
https : //www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7522990/ • ( 3 ) Amending Koch ’ s postulates for viral disease : When “ growth in pure culture ” leads to a loss of virulence , Joseph Prescott , Heinz Feldmann , and David Safronetz .
https : //www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5182102/ About the author : Bud Bromley is a retired life sciences executive .
Bud ’ s entrepreneurial leadership exceeded three decades .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ marketing and sales executive at four public corporations , each company a supplier of analytical and life sciences instrumentation , software , consumables and service .

The COVID-19 cart is STILL in front of the horse
Written by Bud Bromley
Following up on my previous posts, regarding PCR tests and vaccines for SARS CoV-2 (Covid-19), the cart is still in front of the horse. Read the CDC document linked below and see for yourself. Here are a few quotes excerpted from that CDC document dated July, 2020. I provided the bolding for emphasis:
From the official CDC Covid-19 method document for the PCR Covid-19 test, with revisions (full citation and link below.)
Page 2
“Results are for the identification of 2019-nCoV RNA. The 2019-nCoV RNA is generally detectable in upper and lower respiratory specimens during infection. Positive results are indicative of active infection with 2019-nCoV but do not rule out bacterial infection or co-infection with other viruses. The agent detected may not be the definite cause of disease. Laboratories within the United States and its territories are required to report all positive results to the appropriate public health authorities. Negative results do not preclude 2019-nCoV infection and should not be used as the sole basis for treatment or other patient management decisions. Negative results must be combined with clinical observations, patient history, and epidemiological information.”
Page 39
“Detection of viral RNA may not indicate the presence of infectious virus or that 2019-nCoV is the causative agent for clinical symptoms.” “Since no quantified virus isolates of the 2019-nCoV are currently available, assays designed for detection of the 2019-nCoV RNA were tested with characterized stocks of in vitro transcribed full length RNA (N gene; GenBank accession: MN908947.2) of known titer (RNA copies/μL) spiked into a diluent consisting of a suspension of human A549 cells and viral transport medium (VTM) to mimic clinical specimen.”
Bud’s comments: The PCR test has multiple probes designed insilico (i.e. in a computer) from the GenBank sequence database based on the N gene, not from isolated and validated sequence of SARS CoV-2. The N gene sequence codes for the glycoprotein coating that encapsulates and protects the RNA in the virus from nucleases in the body which would break apart the RNA sequence of the virus.
The human immune system does not work by recognition of RNA, DNA or protein sequence. Both T-cells and antibodies function by a 3D pattern recognition of the conformation (or epitope) of the glyco- (i.e. sugar) groups on the surface of the protein.
These sugar groups are post translational modifications to the protein, that is, the sugar groups are added after the protein has been created from amino acids specified in the template of sequence of nucleotides. Small changes in the RNA and DNA sequence code (as small as a single nucleotide, a SNP) can move a methyl group (-CH3) from one position on the protein to another position on the protein and result in major changes in the 3D surface of the glyco- groups attached to the protein.
That small change in RNA sequence or sequence homology could completely change the ability of a test or the immune system to recognize a virus. Or, that change may be and likely is a post translational change due to an entirely different, untested protein molecule, e.g. a chaperone, with entirely different sequence not found in the PCR test.
These changes in 3D conformation of the protein can make major changes in the binding function of the S spike protein, or the conformaton of the glycoprotein coating, or other functions of the protein which in turn can result in major changes in infectivity of the virus. The changes can also prevent or change recognition of the virus by natural or synthetic antibodies, T-cells and pcr tests.
For example, in this informative recent paper:
“An increasing body of evidence suggests that the tight binding of the S protein to ACE2 is the reason for the high person-to-person transmission rates and severity associated with this disease11,12,45. This is most evident when comparing the SARS 2002–2004 pandemic with the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, with 8,098 cases versus over 16 million cases (26th July 2020) respectively. Our analysis demonstrated that the SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 S proteins have substantial differences in their ACE2 binding motifs (50% identity), which results in an increased number of contacts between the SARS-CoV-2 S protein and ACE2. This correlates with the observed 10- to 20-fold higher affinity of the SARS-CoV-2 S protein for ACE2, compared to SARS-CoV S protein11.” “…the high level of TMPRSS2 similarity between species does not appear to affect viral entry, but instead it is the species-specific differences in the structure of ACE2 that affects SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 infectivity.” Brooke GN, Prischi F. Structural and functional modelling of SARS-CoV-2 entry in animal models. Sci Rep. 2020;10(1):15917. Published 2020 Sep 28. doi:10.1038/s41598-020-72528-z. : https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7522990/
Recall that the experiments that were underway at the top security U.S. labs, but ruled too dangerous, and were then transferred along with funding to the lab in Wuhan, China were “gain of function” experiments. The function of infectivity is changed by changing the 3D conformation of proteins. A synthetic sequence created from a computer model could create a protein vaccine for which some people have no immune defense, essentially a poison.
It bothers me that the world is running millions of PCR tests and antibody tests which have not been validated against the RNA from isolated and filtered SARS CoV-2 virus. At least, I have not been able to find publication of this information.
The CDC document is very concerning. And now, without validation against isolated, filtered virus using either standard Koch’s or Rivers’ postulates (methods which have been used to validate cause for every other epidemic including SARS CoV-1), vaccines are being created based on synthetic sequence designed to cause invivo human cells in the living, healthy patient to produce one or more proteins from the S-spike protein on the virus, but neither this sequence nor the protein it produces has been validated against the sequence or the S-spike protein on isolated SARS CoV2.
Billions of dollars are being spent on tests and vaccines which have not been validated against actual SARS CoV-2. Does it bother you?
About the author: Bud Bromley is a retired life sciences executive. Bud’s entrepreneurial leadership exceeded three decades. He was the senior business development, marketing and sales executive at four public corporations, each company a supplier of analytical and life sciences instrumentation, software, consumables and service.
Read more at budbromley.blog
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principiascientificinternational--2020-10-16--WHO Statement: Remdesivir ‘has little or no effect’ on survival

WHO Statement : Remdesivir ‘ has little or no effect ’ on survival Remdesivir was among the first to be used to treat coronavirus , and was recently given to US President Donald Trump when he was in hospital .
In a statement , Gilead said the findings of the study were “ inconsistent ” with others , and that it was “ concerned ” that the results have yet to be reviewed .
What did the WHO study find ?
For its Solidarity clinical trial , the WHO tested the effects four potential treatments – remdesivir , an Ebola @ @ @ @ @ @ @ also looked at malaria drug hydroxychloroquine , auto-immune drug interferon , and the HIV drug combination of lopinavir and ritonavir .
The results , which are yet to be peer-reviewed , suggest that none of these treatments has a substantial effect on mortality or on the length of time spent in hospital , the WHO said on Thursday .
WHO chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan said on Wednesday that their trials on hydroxychloroquine and lopinavir/ritonavir were stopped in June because they had already proven ineffective .
However , the other trials continued .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a previous study from earlier this month , conducted by Gilead , which concluded that treatment with remdesivir cut Covid recovery time by five days compared to patients given a placebo .
About 1,000 patients took part in that trial .
What has the reaction been ?
But Prof Martin Landray , who runs the large trial Recovery in the UK , said the results of the trial were “ important but sobering ” – and added that there were already concerns about the cost and accessibility of remdesivir .
“ It is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ scalable , affordable and equitable treatments .
The WHO Solidarity trial has done the world a huge favour by producing clear , independent and robust results , showing once more the value of large randomised trials in providing the knowledge we need to tackle the worst consequences of the pandemic.
” Remdesivir was given emergency use authorisation in the US from the country ’ s Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) on 1 May .
Later that month it was approved for use in the UK , and has since been authorised @ @ @ @ @ @ @ There is a bit of uncertainty in the data , but the study says it “ absolutely excludes ” the idea remdesivir can save a significant number of lives and says the findings are “ comfortably compatible ” with the drug having no life-saving effect at all .
It is a similar message for preventing people needing ventilation or speeding up people ’ s recovery .
We are still waiting for the results of these trials , but the worry is “ new ” in medicine tends to mean “ expensive ” , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ gets to have them .
PSI Editor ’ s note : the above BBC story is posted simply to reflect the constant flow of junk science trying to discredit ‘ old ’ cheap , re-purposed generic medicine proven to work in saving lives .
The BBC ’ s motive ?
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WHO Statement: Remdesivir ‘has little or no effect’ on survival
Written by BBC
Anti-viral drug remdesivir has little to no effect on Covid patients’ chances of survival, a study from the World Health Organization (WHO) has found. The WHO trial evaluated four potential medications for Covid-19, including remdesivir and hydroxychloroquine.
Remdesivir was among the first to be used to treat coronavirus, and was recently given to US President Donald Trump when he was in hospital.
The drug’s manufacturer Gilead rejected the findings of the trial.
In a statement, Gilead said the findings of the study were “inconsistent” with others, and that it was “concerned” that the results have yet to be reviewed.
What did the WHO study find?
For its Solidarity clinical trial, the WHO tested the effects four potential treatments – remdesivir, an Ebola drug, was one, but they also looked at malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, auto-immune drug interferon, and the HIV drug combination of lopinavir and ritonavir.
Dexamethasone, a low-cost steroid now widely used on Covid patients in intensive care in the UK, was not included in this study.
The four drugs were tested with 11,266 adult patients in total, across 500 hospitals in more than 30 different countries.
The results, which are yet to be peer-reviewed, suggest that none of these treatments has a substantial effect on mortality or on the length of time spent in hospital, the WHO said on Thursday.
WHO chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan said on Wednesday that their trials on hydroxychloroquine and lopinavir/ritonavir were stopped in June because they had already proven ineffective. However, the other trials continued.
The WHO’s results appear to contradict a previous study from earlier this month, conducted by Gilead, which concluded that treatment with remdesivir cut Covid recovery time by five days compared to patients given a placebo. About 1,000 patients took part in that trial.
What has the reaction been?
Gilead Sciences Inc dismissed the findings.
“The emerging (WHO) data appears inconsistent, with more robust evidence from multiple randomised, controlled studies published in peer-reviewed journals validating the clinical benefit of remdesivir,” the company said in a statement.
“We are concerned the data from this open-label global trial has not undergone the rigorous review required to allow for constructive scientific discussion, particularly given the limitations of the trial design.”
IMAGE COPYRIGHT REUTERS image caption Gilead said it was “concerned” that the study hasn’t been reviewed yet
But Prof Martin Landray, who runs the large trial Recovery in the UK, said the results of the trial were “important but sobering” – and added that there were already concerns about the cost and accessibility of remdesivir.
“Covid affects millions of people and their families around the world,” he added.
“It is not a rare disease. We need scalable, affordable and equitable treatments. The WHO Solidarity trial has done the world a huge favour by producing clear, independent and robust results, showing once more the value of large randomised trials in providing the knowledge we need to tackle the worst consequences of the pandemic.”
Remdesivir was given emergency use authorisation in the US from the country’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on 1 May. Later that month it was approved for use in the UK, and has since been authorised for use in several other countries.
Remdesivir has been touted as a potential therapy since the beginning of the pandemic and gained greater attention when it formed part of Donald Trump’s cocktail of treatments.
But the WHO trial, published online, gives a damning verdict.
There is a bit of uncertainty in the data, but the study says it “absolutely excludes” the idea remdesivir can save a significant number of lives and says the findings are “comfortably compatible” with the drug having no life-saving effect at all. It is a similar message for preventing people needing ventilation or speeding up people’s recovery.
So far, doctors have been raiding the cupboard for existing drugs that can fight coronavirus.
The results have been disappointing with malaria drugs, HIV drugs, MS drugs and now an Ebola drug (remdesivir). Only an old steroid – dexamethasone – has proven life-saving.
The attention is now turning to new experimental therapies such as antibodies designed in the lab to fight the virus and new, untested, anti-viral drugs.
We are still waiting for the results of these trials, but the worry is “new” in medicine tends to mean “expensive”, and that will raise questions about who gets to have them. Read more at www.bbc.co.uk *** PSI Editor’s note: the above BBC story is posted simply to reflect the constant flow of junk science trying to discredit ‘old’ cheap, re-purposed generic medicine proven to work in saving lives. The BBC’s motive? To help their friends in Big Pharma, not least Bill Gates who is reported to have ‘donated’ £50 million to the BBC charity and who is also, like WHO, heavily invested in the ‘new’ highly-profitable mass COVID19 vaccination scam. Please Donate Below To Support Our Ongoing Work To Expose The Lies About COVID19 PRINCIPIA SCIENTIFIC INTERNATIONAL, legally registered in the UK as a company incorporated for charitable purposes. Head Office: 27 Old Gloucester Street, London WC1N 3AX. Please DONATE TODAY To Help Our Non-Profit Mission To Defend The Scientific Method.
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