Hospitalisations (with patients testing positive) have certainly been increasing but are at half the level predicted in the SAGE “central scenario” and are 17% lower than their most optimistic predictions.

Read more: hartgroup.org/pessimistic-forecasts

It is increasingly difficult to accept these contorted pronouncements masquerading as reasoned scientific discourse. This isn’t the thin end of the wedge, it is carving society up into opposing camps. Divide and conquer.

Read more: hartgroup.org/plan-for-vaccine-passports

It’s time for the UK to use Ct data to track the spread, protect the vulnerable and regain our lives.

Read more: hartgroup.org/cycle-threshold-pcr

If you had a vaccine with an excellent short term safety profile, then waiting for long term data before vaccinating children would make sense, but given the known short term risks, it is hard to see how waiting for more information could change anything.

Read more: hartgroup.org/covid-vaccine-advice-children

Continued wearing will perpetuate the currently inflated level of anxiety many people feel about the prospect of returning to a normal lifestyle.

Read more: hartgroup.org/drop-the-mask

The fact that alternative views are censored and suppressed and the people behind them attacked may be more reason to be worried than the forecasts themselves.

Read more: hartgroup.org/pessimistic-forecasts

Our COVID-19 newsletter is out.

- The myth that vaccination prevents transmission
- Cases dropping “puzzles” scientists
- Why we set up HART
- Summertime and there’s good news

Read more: https://hartgroup.org/news/

We make no apologies for asking questions, rejecting censorship and upholding long-established ethics. Our members will keep on volunteering their time, for as long as is needed.

Read more: hartgroup.org/questions-censorship-ethics

Any discrimination or coercion of any form aimed at those who choose not to be vaccinated is completely unsustainable.

Read more: hartgroup.org/vaccination-prevents-transmission-myth

Headlines this week declared the fall in cases as confusing, baffling and puzzling. Few headlines acknowledged that it was in fact good news.

Read more: hartgroup.org/cases-dropping-puzzles-scientists

Vaccine certification is highly coercive, threatening the loss of livelihood and the loss of freedom of movement. That is in no sense ‘free’ consent. It is considerable duress.

Read more: hartgroup.org/vaccine-certification

HART believes in freedom of speech and we enjoy healthy debate where no topic is off the table — but we take care in our public communications to only present information that can be backed up by compelling evidence.

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Our COVID-19 newsletter is out.

- Vaccine to be offered to 16 and 17 year-olds
- Nothing unethical about covert ‘nudges’, says BPS
- Extreme SAGE predictions on the effects of variants
- Children continue to be let down

Read more: hartgroup.org/news

Throughout the pandemic, scientists have been highlighting where these models are wrong and putting forward alternative hypotheses. Instead of debating and assessing the evidence, these scientists were censored.

Read more: hartgroup.org/cases-continue-to-fall

JCVI Chair Professor Wei Shen Lim was entirely unconvincing in defending the policy change. We also note his conflict of interest: direct responsibility for funding received by his department from Pfizer.

Read more: hartgroup.org/covid-19-vaccine-to-be-offered-to-16-and-17-year-olds

After months of evasion, the British Psychological Society has made its position clear: it sees nothing ethically questionable about deploying covert psychological strategies.

Read more: hartgroup.org/bps-response-covert-psychological-nudges

Why are trauma informed practitioners and organisations denying the experimental nature of these guidelines as well as their potentially long-term, harmful, physical and psychological effects?

Read more: hartgroup.org/children-let-down

A comprehensive independent review, addressing the ethical basis of deploying covert psychological strategies to lever compliance with public health restrictions, is now urgently required.

Read more: hartgroup.org/bps-response-covert-psychological-nudges

Our COVID-19 newsletter is out.

- Myocarditis in children and young adults
- COVID-19 transmits outdoors
- More analysis of recent SAGE report

Read more: hartgroup.org/news

The roll out of the COVID-19 vaccine to adolescents has begun, despite evidence that myocarditis is a side effect of the vaccine.

Read more: hartgroup.org/myocarditis-side-effect