Uploaded April 2011 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
MSNBC interview debunked:
youtube.com/watch?v=CBTwTScuxas
Studies cited in order cited:
Biol Lett. 2007 October 22; 3(5): 483--486.
rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/3/5/483.full
Biol Lett. 2009 June 23; 5(3): 356--359.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2679916
National Academy of Sciences'
consensus position on low-dose radiation:
"The scientific research base shows that there is no threshold of exposure below which low levels of ionizing radiation can be demonstrated to be harmless or beneficial."
www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=11340
Gill, V. (2010, July). Chernobyl zone shows decline in biodiversity, BBC
bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-10819027
Radiat Environ Biophys. 2010 May;49(2):139-53.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19862545
See additionally regarding stroke
BMJ. 2010 Jan 14;340:b5349.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20075151
Source of Chernobyl children shown
Chernobyl Children's Project International/Vesnova
youtube.com/watch?v=HzpiEMz7A6E
Special thanks to MoxNews for posting what I critiqued
youtube.com/user/MoxNewsDotCom
MSNBC interview debunked:
youtube.com/watch?v=CBTwTScuxas
Studies cited in order cited:
Biol Lett. 2007 October 22; 3(5): 483--486.
rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/3/5/483.full
Biol Lett. 2009 June 23; 5(3): 356--359.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2679916
National Academy of Sciences'
consensus position on low-dose radiation:
"The scientific research base shows that there is no threshold of exposure below which low levels of ionizing radiation can be demonstrated to be harmless or beneficial."
www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=11340
Gill, V. (2010, July). Chernobyl zone shows decline in biodiversity, BBC
bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-10819027
Radiat Environ Biophys. 2010 May;49(2):139-53.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19862545
See additionally regarding stroke
BMJ. 2010 Jan 14;340:b5349.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20075151
Source of Chernobyl children shown
Chernobyl Children's Project International/Vesnova
youtube.com/watch?v=HzpiEMz7A6E
Special thanks to MoxNews for posting what I critiqued
youtube.com/user/MoxNewsDotCom


![Lockdowns Work According to Science
Peer-review studies of Covid-19 lockdowns cited...
Taghrir et al (2020), Efficacy of Mass Quarantine as Leverage of Health System Governance During COVID-19 Outbreak: A Mini Policy Review: “We found good quality evidence for the effectiveness of mass quarantine during the current stage of COVID-19 pandemic, and these strategies seem to have been highly effective in controlling the spread of the disease.” https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32271600/
Tobías (2020), Evaluation of the Lockdowns for the SARS-CoV-2 Epidemic in Italy and Spain After One Month Follow Up: “Lockdown, including restricted social contact and keeping open only those businesses essential to the country’s supply chains, has had a beneficial effect in both countries. The trend slopes were considerably reduced for all the outcomes.” https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32304973/
Lau et al (2020), The Positive Impact of Lockdown in Wuhan on Containing the COVID-19 Outbreak in China: “A significantly decreased growth rate and increased doubling time of cases was observed, which is most likely due to Chinese lockdown measures. A more stringent confinement of people in high risk areas seem to have a potential to slow down the spread of COVID-19.” https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32181488/
Signorelli et al (2020), COVID-19 in Italy: Impact of Containment Measures and Prevalence Estimates of Infection in the General Population: “Data shows that, among these measures, the lockdown implemented as of 9 March had a positive impact, in particular the central and southern regions of Italy, while other actions appeared to be less effective.” https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32275287/
Ji et al (2020), Lockdown Contained the Spread of 2019 Novel Coronavirus Disease in Huangshi City, China: Early Epidemiological Findings: “Lockdown and nonpharmaceutical interventions effectively contained the progression of COVID-19 in Huangshi city, China. Feb 1 (day 9 of lockdown) was identified as the ‘turning point’ as the epidemic faded soon.” https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32255183/
Modeling studies of lockdowns for Covid-19
Chatterjee et al (2020), Healthcare Impact of COVID-19 Epidemic in India: A Stochastic Mathematical Model: “The impact of Non-Pharmacological Interventions (NPI) including social distancing and lockdown on checking the epidemic was estimated […] immediate institution of NPIs, total cases, hospitalizations, ICU requirements and deaths can be reduced by almost 90%.” https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32292232/
Zhang et al (2020), Predicting Turning Point, Duration and Attack Rate of COVID-19 Outbreaks in Major Western Countries: “if there were no major enforcement actions on control strategies such as lockdowns, social distancing, stay-home-advises/orders, then the COVID-19 would have spread exponentially. For example, the total confirmed cases in the USA would have passed 1,000,000 on April 05, 2020.” https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32313405/
Bonus Studies! Pre-press (ie, not yet peer-reviewed) studies on lockdown efficacy I did not cite in the video:
Roques et al (2020), Effect of a one-month lockdown on the epidemic dynamics of COVID-19 in France: “We estimate the effect of the lockdown in France on the contact rate and the effective reproduction number Re of the COVID-19. We obtain a reduction by a factor 7 (Re=0.47, 95%-CI: 0.45-0.50), compared to the estimates carried out in France at the early stage of the epidemic.” https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.21.20074054v1
Hyafil & Morina (2020), Analysis of the impact of lockdown on the evolution Covid-19 epidemics in Spain: “being able to implement interventions at the earliest stage is crucial to minimise the impact of a potential infectious threat.” https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.18.20070862v1
Alfano & Ercolano (2020), Shut it down: a cross country panel analysis on the efficacy of lockdown measures: “The large differences found in the speed of propagation of the disease show us that being able to implement interventions at the earliest stage is crucial to minimise the impact of a potential infectious threat.” https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.12.20062695v1
Spanish flu of 1918 studies
@ 1:34 Markel et al (2007) Nonpharmaceutical Interventions
Implemented by US Cities
During the 1918-1919 Influenza Pandemic: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17684187/
Yu et al, (2017): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5507503/pdf/pone.0180545.pdf
Hatchett et al (2020): https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/104/18/7582.full.pdf
@ 4:04 My forecast that came to pass based on listening to field-specific scientists @ https://youtu.be/7SXIzVinKB0?t=616 Lockdowns Work According to Science](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/YniDz6638xA/mqdefault.jpg)







