US health secretary’s ‘alternative medicine’ push inspired quest to ‘live forever’ via snake venom, urine therapy
Biohacking is a big tent, combining Silicon Valley technology, Burning Man spirituality and health libertarianism. If anything unites this crowd, it is a distrust of the medical status quo – particularly the pharmaceutical industry – and an appetite for tech-heavy alternatives.
Eastern Congo registers highest mpox incidence as new cases surpass 1,000 in the past week
Over the last seven days, Congo recorded 1,030 of the 1,405 new cases in Africa according to statistics provided late Tuesday by the Africa CDC. Only 16 per cent of the cases have been confirmed by virus tests, but the infections meet the agency’s definition of the disease.
Leaked report details how political class in Germany ignored own scientists and imposed punitve Covid vaccine, mask mandates
“A whistleblower, a former employee of the RKI, approached me and passed on the data set to me” for reasons of “conscience,” Velázquez wrote on Substack. According to the files, German regulators sought to skip Phase 3 trials of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine and “go straight into broad application.”
Revealed: Largest study of its kind finds ‘the idea that the Covid vaccine saved lives is ridiculous’
Rancourt said they found “the idea that the vaccine saved lives is ridiculous” and based on flawed modelling as he and colleagues also showed in a previous paper. Here again, they found no systematic or statistically significant trends showing that vaccination campaigns in 2020 and 2021 reduced all-cause mortality.
