The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Playing politics with Autism This is serious stuff, folks Tom Jefferson  and  Carl Heneghan After the US FDA  announcement  of the introduction of a new warning label for use of the drug paracetamol (acetaminophen) in pregnancy because of a supposed increased risk of autism in children, the two old geezers got dragged into the MSM to put forward their pearls of wisdom. By now, you should know how underwhelmed we were by the entire act, especially by its timing. Putting aside the hullabaloo, let’s concentrate on the issue of autism, especially the severe cases. Some causal factors are known or likely, such as cocaine abuse, genetic predisposition probably triggered by environmental stimuli, sodium valproate and so on. However, autism is a complex problem and unlikely to have a single cause. Most of all, it is a serious problem for the families, the autistic people and their carers. One of our patients became autistic around the age of 5. His parents had to put ...

  Yes, We Believe the Bergamo (Italy) All-Cause Death Curve is Fraudulent Together with NYC, the Twin Peaks of Data Engineering which drove the pandemic narrative Jessica Hockett   and   Jonathan Engler A few people have made us aware that a German analyst named Tom Lausen is saying he believes the spring 2020 Bergamo (Italy) death spike is “faked” (see the thread  here ). This is akin to, but not exactly the same as, what we have both asserted about New York City curves — and now suspect of other locations, including Bergamo. 1 Jonathan & a PANDA colleague explained two years ago why curves in the Lombardy region of Northern Italy - including that of Bergamo - could not have been the work of a spreading deadly pathogen but the response thereto. In this piece, Jonathan notes especially the extreme synchronicity of the mortality curves between the different regions of Lombardy (of which Bergamo is one part), as well as the lack of anything unusual happening during...