Vitamin B9 is benign, folic acid is not Dr Clare Craig In the previous article I explained how the body only needs 100 micrograms of folate to replace daily losses. The claimed recommended daily allowance of 400 micrograms a day only came about once industry was involved in setting the allowance. This higher level is […]
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What you need to know about Folic Acid Part Two: How 100 Micrograms Became 400
The dose that was doubled, and then doubled again Dr Clare Craig Ask almost any doctor how much folate an adult needs to eat and the answer will be four hundred micrograms per day. That figure is printed on supplement bottles, prenatal tablets, cereal boxes and government leaflets the world over, and it is repeated […]
What you need to know about Folic Acid Part One: The Deficiency That Wasn’t
No one needs folic acid fortification Dr Clare Craig In 1875, Parliament made it a criminal offence to adulterate flour. The Sale of Food and Drugs Act of that year was written in answer to a scandal that had been building for decades. Bakers bulked out their flour with alum, chalk and plaster of Paris, […]
Lest we Forget – Part 5
In this 5th article from his ‘Lest We Forget’ series, Hugh McCarthy has teamed up with Professor Diane Rasmussen of UK Column. They looks at the toll of lockdowns on university students. Including interviews with university staff and also linking to testimony from the UK C-19 Inquiry Module 8 (Children & Young People).
What are the ‘nudge unit’ doing these days?
Do you ever wonder what the Behavioural Insight Team (aka, the ‘Nudge Unit’) are getting up to these days? Gary Sidley Do you ever wonder what the Behavioural Insight Team (aka, the ‘Nudge Unit’) are getting up to these days? Recently, I took a deep dive into their website to find out. Since its advent […]
Human to human hantavirus
The evidence does not match the alarm Dr Clare Craig When severe pneumonia aboard the MV Hondius was attributed to hantavirus this month, the reporting moved quickly from a handful of sick passengers to the claim that a rodent-borne virus had begun spreading efficiently from person to person. There were comparisons with the first weeks […]
From Fantasy to Historical Fact in Two Moves
Office for Statistics Regulation letter re Inquiry Dr Clare Craig The first move is to build a mathematical model based on assumptions that cannot be verified and are often highly contestable. The second is to present the model’s output in an official report in a form that ordinary readers will naturally interpret as an established […]
MHRA Have Evidence of Harm
MHRA are not telling anyone, but you can Cheryl Grainger Way back in 2022, Dame June Raine the now retired CEO of MHRA, did a presentation in Wales covering the 4 “pillars” of their safety monitoring. She mentioned that in the Yellow Card Vaccine MONITOR (YCVM), there were over 2,000 pregnant women and she was […]
Meningococcus B outbreak
A look back at the recent meningococcal outbreak – how serious was it and was it anything unexpected?
UK Covid Inquiry Module 4 – Vaccines and Therapeutics
Baroness Hallett today publishes the 4th report from the UK C-19 Inquiry. The People’s Vaccine Inquiry group take a preliminary look at her conclusions.
The things you have to do to be heard
What a new nursing home study hides Dr Clare Craig A new paper in Medical Research Archives examines all-cause mortality across 15,000 US nursing homes from May 2022 to June 2023, stratified by vaccination status. The authors – Denhaerynck, Mead and Wolfinger – use forward and reverse lag models to show that mortality rose following […]
Charity statement ahead of Inquiry’s report on vaccines and treatments
Today the Inquiry releases its module 4 report It is a difficult day today for the vaccine injured who have struggled to be heard. The following statement is from Caroline Pover who is the chair of trustees at the charity UKCV family. The charity will also be making a statement in response to the report. COVID […]
The great disruption
Six years on from the first lockdown, this article looks at excess deaths from just one condition, gall stones, and considers the likelihood of a much larger and still unacknowledged catastrophe of indirect harm.
Six Saved Babies. What About the Seventy Who Died?
In the only trial in healthy women, for every neural tube defect prevented, NINE babies were lost Dr Clare Craig For nearly three decades we have been told a reassuring story. Synthetic folic acid was added to food to prevent neural tube defects – spina bifida and anencephaly (where the brain does not form properly). […]
How SAFE is SAFE when it comes to electromagnetic radiation?
An update on the arguments over the safety of electromagnetic radiation. As SAFE as other SAFE products? WHO knows?
The Witch Hunt moves up a gear
The unremitting attacks on doctors speaking out about the policies of the covid era sometimes feel like a witch hunt. The latest against Dr David Cartland has certainly ramped things up another notch.
An open letter to Mr Wes Streeting
Re: The GMC is Failing in its Duty to Protect the Public and Needs Urgent Reform.
Health professionals, academics and concerned citizens write to Wes Streeting to point out the huge discrepancies in GMC action against whistle blowers compared with doctors commiting sexual offences.
Pick of the Week
Round up from Dr Ros Jones Book Review- 3/11: Viral Takeover 1st March 2026 A brave new book about the COVIDcrisis by British Journalist and Author Sonia Elijah Robert Malone writes a detailed review of Sonia Elijah’s book in which she has forensically examined all aspects of the 5 years from March 2020. There is […]
