Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Kind of you, .@doukhobour, but this sort of thing requires no bravery. My parents' generation had to be brave, voluntarily facing horrible physical danger, because reason and morality demanded it of them — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@elegantexigence. I am not sure this is true. The cunning, who are in fact the most successful people in most battles of life, are often academically challenged. Think of the late Diana Spencer, who ran rings round everyone. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 The point of my article was not so much to argue against mask-wearing, as to point out that the pro-mask consensus had a political origin and a political purpose. If people wish to disagree with me, *that* is what they should challenge, preferably adducing evidence. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 This 2016 study on masks, conducted for the dental profession, , easy to find on the web in early 2020, became almost impossible to locate and must now be reached through the Wayback Machine: https://t.co/60BjfFgL6I — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @HareColm: @ClarkeMicah @MailOnline The media here were actively campaigning against their use in the early days - even for healthcare p… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

No, @existencerebel1, I know several highly *intelligent* and come to that generally admirable people who wore masks as mandated, and after they ceased to be. What it identifies is conformity and gullibility. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@janinethechef1. It didn't frighten you half as much as it frightened me. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@DellAnnaLuca But the whole point being made by .@guruanaerbic is that *they do not work in practice*, because 'few people in the real world wear good masks or wear them badly'. If you don't address that point directly, you are not debating, just contradicting. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

If I have this right, the author covered 231 miles in 154 journeys. So an average of about one and a half miles per journey. Why didn’t he walk? E-scooters make money because they appeal to laziness. It’s also plain that these toys are significantly less safe than bikes. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@kynohy, can you sum it up? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @northerness: Because @ClarkeMicah doesn't follow anyone, I feel compelled to send him interesting tweets. Otherwise how does he find th… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@kostjamarschke . Is perceived inconclusivity a fact, or an opinion? Did I 'deny' it or did I in fact contest it? See for example Dr Lazzarino in the BMJ https://t.co/tvM7EiZLJg The Danmask study was not undertaken to support an opinion, but to provide experimental fact. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@anataboga. I am *so* sorry, but I do not see what point you are making. Even so, I can see you think it is very cogent, so perhaps you can explain? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Kind of you, .@opticalgamer14 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Don't ask me .@brunoquarantuno Ask .@abigailinthedel who I think referred to 'conspiracy theorists' in her original attack on my article. Too many people are fooled by this charge into dismissing perfectly reasonable criticisms of government policy. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: Check out "Peter Hitchens 'A Revolution Betrayed' with Nigel Warburton" Thrsday 9th February, Oxford. https://t.co/gnhnKJI… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I remember it. Alas, the only way to turn back the damage done by roads would be a huge and decisive switch to steel wheel on steel rail, which the Ministry of Roads will never do. So the horror depicted here grows slowly closer. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

3/3 .@nicyooyak1 So how was it eventually published? Was its wording changed? Nobody knows. But the mainstream media of this country, with few exceptions, solved the problem by ignoring it. While pro-maskers went on the web to spin it, and denounce sceptics. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/3 .@nicyooyak1 . Then it became *politically* significant.Its publication was delayed for months as several major journals rejected it. They have never said why…but… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 .@nicyooyak1 The whole history of the Danish mask study is gripping. Led by pro-maskers, eminent and fair, its publicised planned size and methods were uncriticised by anyone before it began … — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @SimonWWLondon: If you don’t read it all, read this bit…. “But it also relies on us realising that the other side is made up of human be… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@abigailinthedel — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@Abigailintgedel . Randomised controlled trials are incomparably superior to any other research method in this area. This is not actually in dispute. Now we have settled that, what is your point? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

‘Inconclusive’ . Word used to distract attention from a study’s failure to show significant effects from mask wearing. https://t.co/1YsjHOkpt1 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 I explored this idiotic use of the word 'conspiracy'(to suggest secret whispered meetings by sinister men in Guy Fawkes hats) in my book 'The Cameron Delusion'. Of course political and media actors act in concert, without revealing that they are doing so. https://t.co/lYyiuIYcGP — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 .@papersvagabond. Most conspiracies in modern Britain are called 'lunch', and involve confidential meetings between people with shared aims who do not wish the public to know they are working in concert. Dinners are even worse. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@abigailinthedel. That is just abuse. Have you read the article? Here it is again : https://t.co/HxlR2lwQNN Which facts and arguments in it do you reject, and why? Let us see, when you respond, how bright you are. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @AlastairHowie2: @MrsLund1 @BrendaJ98869280 A “must read” from Peter Hitchens Remember the first 3 months of lockdown. We did not wear… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @brunolp30: PETER HITCHENS: Portez un masque si vous voulez - mais comprenez qu’il s’agit de peur et de contrôle, pas de santé... La cla… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Reason and science in retreat again, as the weird fashion for masks is revived. Will it be flared trousers and mullets next? — PolitiTweet.org