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  • Wishing You a Merry Christmas!

    Wishing You a Merry Christmas!

    This year, we bring our contribution to an important question: “Why did the turkey cross the road twice?” It all started on LinkedIn with a post from a contact wishing us all a Merry Christmas. Because of the picture in the post where this person was wearing a turkey hat, someone launched the quip “Why…

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  • Applied Behaviourist Science, or How to Break Your Will.

    Applied Behaviourist Science, or How to Break Your Will.

    This blog is inspired by The Mail on Sunday’s Comment, 20 Dec: “How many more times must we suffer this dimming of the light with Covid-19 restrictions?” “And for the first time since the 17th Century, a London Government is actually telling us how we may (or may not) celebrate the unique, treasured feast of…

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  • WHO conspiring with Italy to remove damning Covid report?

    WHO conspiring with Italy to remove damning Covid report?

    The Guardian, and other outlets: “WHO accused of conspiring with Italy to remove damning Covid report”. It is all about transparency and public health, isn’t it? Today, our attention was caught by an article in the Guardian (and other outlets), in which we read “The World Health Organization has been accused of conspiring with the Italian health…

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  • “Early treatment with HCQ: a country-based study” shows it works

    “Early treatment with HCQ: a country-based study” shows it works

    16 December 2020|Good Governance, SARS-Cov-2 (“COVID-19”), Visualisation / Insights As of 16th Dec 2020, +802,400 estimated lives were lost from not using Hydroxychloroquine Hydroxychloroquine works, and this has been known since the beginning by medical experts with no conflicts of interest. So why such obstinance in stopping people from being treated with it while others…

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  • ‘Unconscious bias’ mandatory training scrapped by UK Government

    ‘Unconscious bias’ mandatory training scrapped by UK Government

    Excellent news: “Unconscious bias training” is being scrapped for civil servants in England, with ministers saying it does not work “It doesn’t work”, indeed. The surprising thing is how could anyone think it could work in the first place. This is the least we could say: it can’t work because ‘bias’ is not something defined…

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  • Swiss Federal Office of Public Health stalls three main vaccines

    Swiss Federal Office of Public Health stalls three main vaccines

    No authorisations for Pfizer/BioNTech, AstraZeneca, and Moderna vaccines due to “lack of data on the effectiveness of the clinical trials and on the important subgroups that participated in these large studies”

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  • CDEI publishes “Review into bias in algorithmic decision-making”

    CDEI publishes “Review into bias in algorithmic decision-making”

    In the 92-page nicely designed and worded document, the UK Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation woes to address “bias” without providing any definition of what a ‘bias’ is. Originally published on the 6th Dec, updated 13th Dec. My attention was recently caught by a post on LinkedIn announcing that CDEI published a review into bias…

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