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Did Covid leak from a lab?

December 23, 2023September 17, 2020 by Dave
covid

Misleading Telegraph headline claims scientsts investigating covid leaking from a lab – that is not what is going on.

Categories Fake News, Health, media, Medicine, science, society Tags covid, COVID-19, Lancet covid19 commission, media

Does Honey really help cure coughs and colds?

March 28, 2021September 4, 2020 by Dave
honey

A new study reveals that honey is better than standard over the counter remedies for tacking an upper respiratory tract infections.

Categories consumer, Health, Medicine, science, study Tags cough, honey, study

The CDC can no longer be trusted to be reliable

August 13, 2024September 2, 2020 by Dave
CDC

NYT article by SMEs points out that the CDCs new COVID-19 testing strategy is wrong, it will prolong the pandemic. States need to take action.

Categories Health, Medicine, politics, science Tags CDC, COVID-19, politics, Testing

Trump’s latest COVID-19 scam – Oleandrin

September 2, 2024August 26, 2020 by Dave
The oleander plant is beautiful but also deadly because of a toxic extract called oleandrin.

The latest Trump “Cure” for COVID-19 is oleandrin. Evidence that it works? None at all. If you take this, then get your affairs in order.

Categories consumer, Health, Medicine, Skeptic news, Skepticism Tags COVID-19, fake cure, oleandrin

COVID-19, a “Cure”, and Religion in Afghanistan

August 20, 2020 by Dave
Afghanistan

In Afghanistan, religious herbalists are offering a COVID-19 cure that uses opioids. People really do feel better, but this is not a cure.

Categories consumer, Fake News, Health, Medicine, society Tags Afghanistan, COVID-19, cure

How the Pandemic Defeated America

August 13, 2024August 4, 2020 by Dave
Pandemic

It didn’t have to be like this. 150,000+ people did not need to die. This pain and turmoil was preventable at a thousand different turns.

Categories Health, media, science Tags COVID-19, ed young, health, media, Pandemic, writing
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