Scientists such as Professor Dolores Cahill, Dr. Succharit Bhakdi, Dr. John Lee, dr. Mike Yeadon and Professor Carl Heneghan have argued at length that there are serious reasons to doubt what we have been told about Covid 19. I trust these scientists more than the mainstream doctors and scientists for a number of reasons.

• They are not hiding anything


• They have no conflicts of interest


• Their arguments are consistent, rational and non-hysterial - and not fraught with logical leaps or missteps.

The behaviour of the media and (for want of a better term) 'mainstream' doctors and scientists, on the other hand, is starkly different - and should be ringing serious alarm bells in minds everywhere.

Hiding vital information

To begin with, vital information about Covid 19 testing procedures - most importantly the PCR test cycle threshold - is being withheld from the public. Similarly, there are enormous unresolved question marks regarding the accuracy of Covid 19 death figures. We know that the figures have been exaggerated - but we don't know how badly so. Andy why on earth were deaths misattributed to Covid 19 in the first place - at least in the cases where there was an obvious underlying serious illness?

But does the secrecy end there? How honest and forthcoming are the drug companies being about the adverse side effects of the vaccines that have already been administered?

Conflicts of interest

Pharmaceutical companies are one of the main job providers in many developed nations. They have huge political and financial power to sway politicians, legislative bodies and medical organisations. Much of the postgraduate research in the biological sciences is funded by these companies, who can very easily bring promising young scientists 'in to the fold'. It probably takes a relatively brave young mind to try to advance their scientific careers by alternative means - unencumbered by medical orthodoxy and drug-company influence. Many scientists will spend much of their scientific careers - either directly or indirectly - in the pockets of drug companies.

If you are 1) not willing to acknowledge this questionable alliance between drug companies and colleges and universities, and / or 2) not willing to acknowledge that the scientists trained and bred in this milieu harbor long-lasting conflicts of interest then we are at an impasse. Your opinions on this subject are probably cast in stone, and no amount of patient reasoning and debate is likely to ever sway your mind.

Misinterpreting figures

When the mainstream media report Covid 19 deaths and 'cases', they invariably misinterpret them. Leaving aside the fact that the PCR tests are largely unsuitable for identifying 'hot infections' - as well as the fact that all indicators suggest that the tests employ far too many amplification cycles for the results to hold any plausible diagnostic value - the media draw attention to only the total number of tests which yielded positive results, and do not highlight the overal number of tests performed. This hides the fact, of course, that a rise in the number of 'cases' may just be reflecting an increase in the number of tests. Of course, given a moment's thought, even a child could infer that the more people tested, the more infections will be identified - even if the number of 'infections' remains more or less constant.

Thus, there was a large increase in the number of tests in Ireland leading up to Christmas 2020 - as people planning to visit family wanted assurances that they weren't potentially infecting vulnerable family members. Lo and behold, the number of Covid 19 'cases' increased significantly in the latter half of December - and this in turn is being used as a justification to return to a full lockdown. Even though a primary school student would realize that the perceived increase in 'cases' is really just a symptom of increased 'testing'.

Are the reporters, scientists and politicians guiding and promulgating public policy really too stupid to realize this? I don't think so. I think that strings are being pulled behind the scenes - whether or not the public-facing representatives are fully aware of it.