Sanjeev Sabhlok's Blog, page 10

Cost-benefit analyses of the 2020 lockdowns

An extract from the draft CBA that I’d worked on with Prof. Gigi Foster There are a number of ways to undertake a cost-benefit analysis. A useful summary of methods is provided by Paul Frijters in the Vienna Yearbook of Population Research.[1] Different authors inevitably use different methods and currencies, and include different factors in […]

Children’s drawings about the lockdowns and “pandemic”

I’ve posted this tweet which contains the source of the images below.  

A shorter article on disbanding public health – in Mises Wire

Mises Wire has published this on 29 December 2022:  https://mises.org/wire/case-disbandin...   Keywords Disband/ Abolish Public Health.

Vaccines are POSSIBLY a cause of the 6.7% decline in births in Sweden in the first half of 2022

Sweden is a particularly important case for analysis both of lockdowns and covid vaccines, being the only control we have (since it had no lockdowns – I do not include voluntary social distancing measures by people as lockdowns). As I have repeatedly shown, mortality data from Sweden rules out the possibility that people have died […]

My next TOI article: The case for disbanding public health in its current form

This is in four parts. I’ll provide the links below but also the Word and PDF versions for download. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/b... https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/b... https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/b... https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/b... DOWNLOAD WORD | PDF COMPLETE TEXT BELOW In March 2020, Sweden showed us how public health should be managed ethically (see my two articles on 25 April 2020). But the rest of […]

Do lockdowns and border closures serve the “greater good”? A cost-benefit analysis of Australia’s reaction to COVID-19 – Gigi Foster with Sanjeev Sabhlok

I’ve finally found some time to create this page for the Foster-Sabhlok CBA. Also scanned a relatively high resolution image of the front cover. Custom bit.ly link: bit.ly/fostercba Executive summary (Free of cost): https://www.thegreatcovidpanic.com/_f... Where to purchase: Connor Court | Amazon | Barnes and Noble. Also available from: Book Depository, Wordery, Fishpond, Abbey’s, AbeBooks, Blackwell’s, Booktopia, […]

A note on the logarithmic impact of CO2 on global warming

This is something I’ve come across a long time ago but a couple of people challenged it recently. Both have been muted since they were not adding any value. But the discussion was still illuminating. First, the diagram from Ian Plimer’s book: The Royal Society makes a similar point but then waves its arms about […]

Transcript of the John Ioannidis movie

This is taken from youtube: I’ve used bits of it to shortlist portions of the video to clip. And one day I’ll try to fix this transcript. But at the moment it is mainly a dump. ==== I think that science is like swimming in an ocean, it’s swimming in an ocean at night. So […]

The banality of evil – a topic that needs to be front and centre in our education system

This is a placeholder post – just recording a few things for now. The situation summed up by @RabbiAlonAnava 👇🏼 pic.twitter.com/qxsgnOHp2f — Charlotte,The Baroness of Burnley 💫 (@CharlotteEmmaUK) October 27, 2022 Hannah Arendt: “The, problem, the real personal problem, wasn’t what our enemies, the Nazis, did, but what our friends did. What happened back then […]

Claims that vaccines are causing mass scale deaths don’t pass the most basic sniff test

People keep sending me articles/ videos that claim that vaccines are killing on a mass scale.  I have a mountain load of such things. But I do things differently. I never believe in any single piece of information. Analysis of statistics is skill that’s too complex for most people, and most analyses will necessarily be […]