Media fact-check of claims linking Covid vaccines to cancer deaths results in retraction of peer-reviewed study
The researchers found a 2.1 per cent mortality increase in 2021 and a 9.6 per cent increase In 2022. They determined that age-adjusted death rates for leukemia, breast, pancreatic and lip/oral/pharyngeal cancers increased significantly in 2022 after a large portion of the Japanese population had received the third dose of an mRNA Covid-19 vaccine.
Why I don’t like Genetically Modified Organisms: They are inspired by same immoral concept as homosexuality
People, corporations and institutions that promote GMOs spend time, energy, intellectual capital and money trying to convince all and sundry, that GMO foods are healthful and safe to eat just as their non-GMO counterparts are. They particularly emphasise that some GMO plants and animals have actually been modified to improve their nutritional value. The creation of GMOs has changed the food chains and food webs to which Man, Homo sapiens, is integral, and made them more and more unnatural.
Amazon Files: Emails show Amazon caved in to pressure from White House to suppress books critical of vaccines
As pressures from the White House reverberated up Amazon’s corporate ladder, the head of the books team approved the adoption of a new policy to apply a “Do Not Promote” label to so-called anti-vaccination books.
As African nations focus on HPV vaccination against cervical cancer, hesitancy persists
Across Africa, an average of 190 women died daily from cervical cancer in 2020, accounting for 23 per cent of the deaths globally and making it the leading cancer killer among women in the WHO Africa region of 47 countries. Eighteen of the 20 countries with the highest rate of cervical cancer cases in the world are in Africa. Yet the region’s HPV vaccination rate has been low.
Ex-US presidential advisor on Covid now admits closing schools during pandemic was a mistake
Social media companies have often targeted conservative users, organisations and religious messages for censorship. By labelling the messages as “hate” or “misinformation,” social media companies silence conservative voices and stunt the free flow of information.
Over 4,000 die of snakebites, 7,000 are paralysed every year as it is hard to find cure in Kenya
Kenya imports antivenom from Mexico and India, but antivenom is usually region-specific, meaning a treatment in one region might not effectively treat snakebites in another. Part of the work of Maranga and colleague Fredrick Angotte is extracting venom from one of Africa’s most dangerous snakes, the black mamba. The venom can help produce the next generation of antivenom.
Obesity epidemic rocks US as weight-loss options for young people are hard to come by
Fewer than 1 per cent of the nearly 15 million US children with obesity get this type of structured care, the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention says. Efforts by the CDC and others to expand insurance coverage have stalled, doctors involved in the process told Reuters.
Why South Africa embraces traditional healers as first point of contact in war against HIV/Aids
South Africa has one of the highest rates of HIV in the world. Stigma remains in many communities around the disease and its treatment – even though HIV antiretroviral medication and pre-exposure prophylaxis are free. Concern about privacy at clinics also keeps people from seeking help.
Pig and haram: To turn off Muslims, US Army cast Chinese vaccines as derived from pork, therefore forbidden
By 2010, the military began using social media tools, leveraging phony accounts to spread messages of sympathetic local voices – themselves often secretly paid by the United States government. As time passed, a growing web of military and intelligence contractors built online news websites to pump US-approved narratives into foreign countries.
Ping pong: How China’s scramble to link US Army to the origin and spread of Covid stirred US propaganda machine
Health workers and the government struggled to get Filipinos vaccinated against Covid-19, despite mobile sites like this one, operating in May 2021 in Taguig, Metro Manila, Philippines. At that time, the Philippines had one of the worst inoculation rates in Southeast Asia. The primary vaccine available then was Sinovac. Credit: Reuters
