The European Union has banned three journalists — two Germans, Alina Lipp and Thomas Röper, and a Turkish national living in Germany, Hüseyin Doğru — from entering the EU, and frozen their bank accounts. The EU accuses them of “spreading pro-Russian propaganda”, “undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine”, and “destabilising” EU countries through their reporting.
In fact, they are being punished solely for engaging in critical reporting about Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Gaza.
The fact that challenging the EU-NATO narrative on the war in Ukraine or on the genocide in Gaza is now effectively treated as a quasi-criminal, de facto act of treason justifying extra-judicial punishment in the form of travel bans and asset freezes is nothing short of terrifying.
The ethical and legal implications are staggering: two EU citizens have effectively been stripped of their basic civil liberties — exiled from virtually the entire European continent and subjected to financial strangulation — through a simple act of bureaucratic fiat, without trial or court ruling. This is punishment without process, imposed by an unaccountable, out-of-control elite, in defiance of the most basic principles of the rule of law.
Making the ruling even more chilling is the fact that the decision is legally binding on all member states. That means that anyone who provides funds or resources to the accused journalists would also be in violation of the sanctions and could themselves be sanctioned as a result.
With the snap of a finger, EU officials have swept aside centuries of legal development. Core principles such as the separation of powers (whereby punishment should be the exclusive domain of independent courts), proportionality and the foundational concept of nulla poena sine lege — no punishment without law — have effectively been discarded.
In effect, EU elites have discovered a way to bypass all legal and constitutional safeguards against the repression of dissent, by weaponising a mechanism originally designed to target foreign entities, not domestic citizens.
The geographic scope of the ruling is also entirely without precedent: while in the past there have been isolated cases of individual states denying re-entry to their own nationals for political reasons, typically by revoking their citizenship, a practice broadly condemned under international law, there is no historical precedent for a supranational body imposing a travel ban on a citizen of a member state across almost thirty countries simultaneously.
This exposes the dangerous flipside of the EU’s supranational legal framework: rights that apply uniformly across all member states can just as easily be revoked across the entire bloc through mere bureaucratic fiat.
In the past, individuals facing political persecution in one European country could seek refuge or political asylum in another. That is no longer possible, especially when the persecution is orchestrated by the supranational and international authorities of the Union itself.
All Europeans who believe in democracy and the rule of law — whether on the left, the right or anywhere in between — must push back against this monstrosity, regardless of what they think of Röper, Lipp, or Doğru’s views. If we don’t stand up for them now, any one of us could be next.
Read my article about this astonishing story here: https://www.public.news/p/eu-travel-ban-on-three-journalists
Symposium of EFIS on the occasion of 5 years of COVID-19 - 4 April 2025 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_ibkMZSrwqvLyFZnC7XYzFwyZOcVJbvi&feature=shared via @YouTube
The immunological aspects of COVID-19 under the auspices of the European Federation of Immunological Societies
Concentration camp 2025
Starving people forced to walk miles
under scorching heat.
Lined up like animals,
only a few are fed.
Some are arrested,
Some are shot at.
New Israel US joint venture.
The worst humanity is capable of from the bastions of Power.
We.
Must.
Stop.
This.
In a great win for academic freedom, NIH director @drjbhattacharya has removed the old rule that research manuscripts by NIH scientists must be approved by their superiors before it could be published.
https://www.limpertinentmedia.com/post/who-manipulated-science-to-promote-its-propaganda-during-the-pandemic
☀️ On the cover of @TheLancetInfDis June issue in time for European arbovirus season, the @PREPARE_EUROPE MERMAIDS-Arbo doublebill of papers with commentary now in print - thank you!
🦟 Full issue:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/issue/vol25no6/PIIS1473-3099(25)X0006-2
🤒 Clinical outcomes:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(24)00655-8/
🦠 Serology diagnostic algorithm:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(24)00654-6/
🗣️ Commentary:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(25)00076-3/
@louise_sigfrid @LouellaMRK @siyu1000 @MarionKoopmans
Dude, you call yourself an engineer but got zero sense of how things work?! Type in „Elon Musk“, „Starkink“, „Neuralink“ and „DOGE“ and do that quantification again (or ask people who know their jobs to do so)- surprise, surprise!
Trachoma is the leading infectious cause of blindness worldwide.
In a new Seminar, Esmael Habtamu & colleagues provide an overview of the key clinical and public health features of trachoma.
Explore now ➡️ https://hubs.li/Q03nWybF0
Having abandoned principles of public health during the pandemic, @statnews continues to write hit piece on experts who got the pandemic right, like Dr. @TracyBethHoeg. Time for StatNews to leave politics behind and return to science.
🙏🏻 Wow. I was not aware of @realdocspeaks until today.
I really appreciate his kindness and remarkable accuracy👇🏻
Day after day, for 19 months and with no end in sight:
Entire families extinguished, small children blown to bits by the thousands, this one from an air strike on the home of two married physicians who work at one of Gaza's last functional hospitals: all paid for by the US.
📽️ New video out now!
If you missed yesterday's seminar, The Role of Behavioural Science in Eliminating Cervical Cancer by Jo Waller, it is now available on our YouTube channel!
Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ipTlUyZwOo&t=12s
This is a story about institutional culture, regulatory failure, and the consequences of silence.
Those who spoke up were punished. Those who stayed silent kept their jobs & reputations. And those who were forced to comply were often left to deal with the collateral damage. SEE FULL STORY 👇👇
https://blog.maryannedemasi.com/p/top-fda-official-admits-she-refused @KLVeritas @Liz_Wheeler @liz_churchill10 @Kevin_McKernan
The key strength of MAHA is its evidence-based multi-focus on the immune system, environment, mental health, nutrition and exercise, including the 10 big A’s: Autism, Allergy, Asthma, Auto-immune disorders, ADHD, Anorexia, Anxiety/depression, Abuse, Alienation and Addiction.
Don't forget to join us tomorrow for a free online seminar with Jo Waller, where we'll explore the role that vaccinations and screening play in eliminating cervical cancer!
Find out more here 👇
A new article from the @US_FDA compares broad U.S. recommendations on Covid vaccination with those from other countries and announces the adoption of an evidence-based approach to such recommendations.
Read the full article: https://nej.md/3F6EIhV
#IDThreads
Forschende vom DKFZ und der @uniklinik_hd
haben herausgefunden, dass Epstein-Barr-Viren die Migrationsfähigkeit infizierter Immunzellen steigern. Damit fördert der Erreger seine Verbreitung im Körper – ein möglicher Ansatz für neue Therapien. ➡️https://t1p.de/7brow
🎙️ Join us this Thursday for our upcoming free seminar, Vaccination and screening: the role of behavioural science in eliminating cervical cancer
Find out more Jo here: https://consilium-scientific.org/component/content/article/115-speakers-25/708-jo-waller-phd?Itemid=437
📅 Thursday, 22nd May
🕔 5pm London Time
🎟️ Sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1360554016689?aff=oddtdtcreator
This needs to be said:
We (profound autism parents) have nothing but the best of intentions. Only we understand our experience.
We have nothing to apologize for.
We have no reason to be ashamed.
There is nothing about our plight that is not rooted in helping our kids.
There is nothing about our plight that is not rooted in reality.
There is even nothing about our plight that is not rooted in science.
Because of all these things, we will aggressively be pursuing the advancement of appropriate and meaningful research, and we will not take lightly, any attempts to dilute our kids’ struggles or minimize their experience - directly or indirectly.
The time has come to get help that makes a difference and to go on the offense against those who stand in our way. We will get creative. Where there is truth, there is a way. Where there is a will, there is a way.
Make A Stand 4 Autism 🧩
Electricity has a long history in medicine. Now, new technologies are expanding how electric fields and pulses could treat diseases from rheumatoid arthritis to cancer. The Future of Everything | Health.
https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/electric-fields-pulses-cancer-rheumatoid-arthritis-21cb139f?st=xAWhnU via @WSJ
To heal science and academia, governments, social media and universities should not censor scientists or anyone else. Those that censor de facto prove they lack counter arguments.
@heal_science @DrJBhattacharya
An infant with a rare genetic mutation was treated with a gene editing therapy tailored to his specific condition—a breakthrough that could provide a template for others https://www.wsj.com/tech/biotech/crispr-gene-editing-therapy-philadelphia-infant-8fc3a2c5?st=ESTq2P via @WSJ
These charts tell the story. Americans are living longer than they were 50 or 100 years ago. But chronic diseases are undermining that momentum. https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/chronic-disease-america-charts-b74372ac?st=K3dwEx via @WSJ
Women are throwing back more drinks, and raising concerns about the health consequences of their alcohol consumption https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/women-alcohol-use-health-risks-86999148?st=ARsRBp via @WSJ
You can see the included measures over time, against mortality data. All axes locked.
The cASMR excess above was calculated w/ weekly interpolated populations. It is the median result of all pre-pandemic trends from 2009-19 to 2015-19. (FR from 2013 & IT from 2011).
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Lockdowns did not reduce excess mortality. In Western Europe, coercive measures were associated with increased excess mortality.
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While investigating pharmaceuticals in parts of the world can be physically perilous, in others you risk your reputation more than life.
In this chapter of GIJN's Health & Medicine Guide, @serenatinari & @CatherineRiva offer tips on traps, hype & ethics. https://twp.ai/4ilVAr
💡When ideas become too dangerous to platform
@TEDTalks - a platform that claims to champion bold ideas - has censored Uni Prof Gigi Foster, who spoke out in defense of free speech and the right to dissent.
#StopCensorship
https://blog.maryannedemasi.com/p/when-ideas-become-too-dangerous-to
@aus4science @jeffreytucker @Jikkyleaks @newstart_2024
For years, Ulrike Guérot was one of Germany’s most respected political scientists. But after she criticised the pandemic response and the proxy war in Ukraine, she was subjected to a Stasi-like campaign of persecution.
I wrote about her incredible story:
https://www.thomasfazi.com/p/enemy-of-the-state-the-political
I am delighted that the collection 'Essays on Freedom and Proportionality' that I edited is now out and available open access thanks to generous funding from the University of Essex OA fund. Check it out!
https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?docid=b-9781509973798
@BloomsburyAcad @Kai_Moller_
As I am currently teaching the annual Virology 101 @UniHeidelberg and made exactly this point, nice to see this beautiful illustration! Note the viruses!!
R to @TheBinderLab: Please spread the ⬆️word (remember: only local to Heidelberg and Mannheim): @CiidHeidelberg, @BartenschlagLab, @TRR179_2, @grk2727, @DKFZImmunology, @Acebron
R to @TheBinderLab: Great international keynotes:
@Megan_Stanifer will talk about lambda interferons in gut epithelial homeostasis
@LaguetteNadine @LabLaguette discusses innate immune responses upon DNA damage response
Alessandra Mortellaro speaks about type I interferons in hematopoiesis
R to @TheBinderLab: Amazing local speakers:
Ana Martín-Villalba (@DKFZ): role of IFNs in neurological development in the brain
Marieke Essers (@DKFZ): IFNs in hematopoiesis
Stefan Jordan (@uniklinik_hd): Nutritional Microbiology and Immunology
Second Heidelberg Interferons Symposium coming up!
If you are based in HD or Mannheim (@dkfz, @uniklinik_hd, @embl, Heidelberg University, ...) and interested in any facet of these incredible #cytokines, join us on
🗓️ July 10/11
🏫 Marsilius Kolleg
✍🏻 http://bit.ly/IFN2025
“I am taking my own advice,” says Dr. Eric Topol, who follows daily habits he identified in a study of “super agers” who are healthy at ages 85 and above. The Future of Everything | Health looks at his pro tips. https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/health-habits-advice-super-agers-b12ef81e?st=k9c6PJ via @WSJ
Great choice of @VPrasadMDMPH (top center on left) to lead CBER @US_FDA. A staunch supporter of evidence based medicine.
Two of the best in the evidence-based medicine community, @VPrasadMDMPH and @NIHDirector_Jay, are now in charge of things that do matter. That's wonderful news. Wishing them success. We should all celebrate now, and be thrilled for what they'll be hopefully able to achieve🤞
Bahners will mich mit allen Mitteln der zivilen Verachtung bestrafen.
Die Mittel „wenn ich dich Demo sehen sollte werde deine Ar*ch da f*cken“, „sie sollte strafrechtlich verfolgt werden“, „ich werde deine Kinder f*cken und abstechen“, „du dreckige Hure“ & eine Lüge von Gak.🫶