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Hannah Arendt is famous for her writings on the banality of evil. Her basic observation is that atrocities such as those seen in World War II were able to happen precisely because ordinary people became — through unconscious obedience and an individual failure to think — wheels in a grotesque machine. “How could that happen?” or “I would never have taken part in this!” are common instincts when reading about such historical events.  The post The Banality of Evil, 21st Century Edition appeared first on HART.

The Royal College of Emergency Medicine claims that over 20,000 people died in 2022 after waiting for care for at least 12 hours. They say these deaths resulted from long delays in A&E, where emergency departments are frequently overwhelmed and unable to find patients a hospital bed. The claim is based on modelled data which showed that patients who waited longer for a bed had a higher mortality. The post Excuses for excess deaths appeared first on HART.

NHS patients have selflessly contributed to research for many decades. Patients, particularly those with a poor prognosis, are often very willing to help researchers so that a similar diagnosis might not be as disastrous for others as it might be for them. In all, 50,000 patients participated in trials in the UK in 2017/2018. The post Consent withdrawn appeared first on HART.

It is hard to believe it is really three whole years since many of us were listening to the Prime Minister, adopting his most Churchillian tones, and telling the entire nation that we must stay in our homes, for all but food shopping, one item of exercise and essential travel to work: the announcement made only four days after SARS-CoV-2 had been downgraded as a High Consequence Infectious Disease.  The post What were you doing on 23rd March 2020?   appeared first on HART.

Amid concerns surrounding transparency in the pharmaceutical industry, a pattern of misrepresenting miscarriage rates in drug studies has come to light. The history of pharmaceutical harm in pregnancy includes Thalidomide, Diethylstilbestrol, Primodos, and Valproate. Now the covid vaccine data has revealed higher miscarriage rates than previously reported. The post Why is there a debate about miscarriage rates? appeared first on HART.

Supporting evidence re concerns surrounding COVID-19 vaccination in children Dr June Raine, CEO, Medicines & Healthcare devices Regulatory Authority, cc: Professor Lim, Chairman, JCVI Covid-19 vaccines committee cc: Professor Chris Whitty, CMO, Co-chair of SAGE cc: Sir Patrick Vallence, Chief Scientific Officer, Co-chair of SAGE Dear Dr Raine, We wish to notify you of our […] The post Full open letter to MHRA 17-05-2021 appeared first on HART.

The sceptical community – living up to its decentralised worldview – is not short of opinions and theories, robustly debated.  These are too numerous to cover in detail in this short piece: it suffices to say that they cover a wide spectrum ranging from calamitous ineptitude (and innumeracy) of politicians and civil servants, deceitful and underhand sales... The post It Was A ‘Vaccine Strategy’ From The Start appeared first on HART.

Although covid undoubtedly killed people, looking at its fatality in retrospect, the claimed lethality does not always match what we now know about the virus. There are particular examples such as New York City and Lombardy where the alleged covid mortality figures are well in excess of what was seen elsewhere, and suggest other factors must have been at play. With that in mind it is worth re-examining the excess death waves to understand better what proportion was caused directly by covid and what could have been caused by the response to covid. The post An autopsy on covid deaths appeared first on HART.

After a seven month hiatus the ONS have finally released data on deaths by vaccination status but it is all very odd. Numerous analyses have been written on the findings as well as critiques of the quality of the data; this article will be an attempt to summarise them. The post Problems with the ONS data? appeared first on HART.

It was a huge concern to Public Health Scotland when in September 2021 neonatal deaths exceeded the warning range.  A brief investigation confirmed these losses were not related to maternal Covid-19. But 6 months later, in March 2022 there was another surge. The post Neonatal death inquiry in Scotland gets underway  appeared first on HART.