IN THE HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA, AT BANGALORE

WRIT PETITION No. :                   /2020 F.R. No. : 9686/2020

(Original Jurisdiction)

BETWEEN :

Sri. Mathew Thomas, S/o late T.P. John,

Aged about 82 years,

Resident of No.2, ‘Aristos’,

Sobha City, Thanisandra Main Road,

Bengaluru – 560 064.                                        

                                                                        PETITIONER

AND

1.     The Government of India, represented by

The Secretary, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

Room No. 348; ‘A’ Wing, Nirman Bhavan, New Delhi-110011

2.     State of Karnataka represented

By its Chief Secretary,

Government of Karnataka,

Vidhana Soudha, Bengaluru 560 001           

                                                                  RESPONDENTS

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Scientific Evidence – Covid-19

SL.

Description

Source

(with home page link)

Author/Speaker

CD

Link

Public

Link

1.              

Weekly Updates by Select Demographic and Geographic Characteristics.

Source              : Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 

Website            : Date               : Saturday, 15-Sep-020

NA

CD Link (HTML)

CD Link (PDF)

Link

2.              

Coronavirus: Nine in 10 dying have existing illness

Source              :  BBC

Date                 : 16-Apr-2020

Nick Triggle

Health correspondent

CD Link

Link

3.              

Michael Levitt - Interview - Importance of Excess Death Data

Source              : Data Science Association

Date                 : 28-Aug-2020

Michael Levitt

CD Link

Link

4.              

A fiasco in the making? As the coronavirus pandemic takes hold, we are making decisions without reliable data.

Source              : Stat News

Date                 : 02-May-2020

John P.A. Ioannidis

CD Link

Link

5.              

Q&A: Michael Levitt on why there shouldn’t be a lockdown, how he’s been tracking coronavirus.

Date                 : 02-Aug-2020

Michael Levitt

CD Link

Link

6.              

Analysis of Coronavirus-2019 Data

Source              : Stanford University

Date                 : 02-May-2020

Michael Levitt

CD Link

Link

7.              

Episodes – Kaufman

This web page has links to videos. Due to space constraints these videos have not been copied to the CD.

Andrew Kaufman Website

Andrew Kaufman

CD Link

Link

8.              

Excess Death Stats

Michael Levitt

Michael Levitt

CD Link

NA

9.              

London School of Business

NA

CD Link

Link

10.           

Healthy People Should Not Wear Face Masks

Dr. Jim Meehan

Dr. Jim Meehan

CD Link

Link

Index of RTI’s

SL.

Date

Description

Sent to

F.R. No.

CD

Link

1.      

18-May-2020

Details on lockdown

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

MoFHW-Corona-Lockdown-1

CD Link

2.      

18-May-2020

Details on lockdown

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of Karnataka State

Kar-MoFHW-Corona-Lockdown-1

CD Link

3.      

26-May-2020

Information on making masks compulsory.

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

RTI-MoHFW-Masks

CD Link

4.      

26-May-2020

Information on making masks compulsory.

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of Karnataka State

RTI-K-MoHFW-Masks-State

CD Link

5.      

26-May-2020

Information on death statistics

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

RTI-MoHFW-Corona-Case-and-Death-Stats

CD Link

6.      

15-Jun-2020

Information on containment zones

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of Karnataka State

RTI- Kar-MoHFW-Containment-Zone

CD Link

7.      

30-Jun-2020

Information on polio

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

RTI-MoHFW-Polio

CD Link

Profiles of Experts

Dr. Michael Levitt

Michael Levitt is a Nobel Prize-winning biophysicist who has conducted pioneering work on the molecular structure of essential biological compounds. He has made many significant contributions to the study of protein folding and helped to popularize the use of computer modelling in biology.

Amongst the foremost of Michael’s numerous scientific achievements is his development of the first computerized model of an enzyme reaction, which was subsequently expanded to simulate more generalized protein dynamics. He has also carried out important research on the modelling of antibodies as well as DNA and messenger RNA — work that has informed practical advances in biomedical science.

Michael has received many honors and awards for his research, including the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the 2014 DeLano Award for Computational Biosciences. A member of the US National Academy of Sciences, since 1987 he has been a Professor of Structural Biology at Stanford University.

Public Links

Stanford Profiles

The Royal Society

Dr. John P.A. Ioannidis

Dr. John P.A. Ioannidis, C.F. Rehnborg Chair in Disease Prevention, Professor of Medicine, of Epidemiology and Population Health, and (by courtesy) of Biomedical Data Science, and of Statistics; co-Director, Meta-Research Innovation Centre at Stanford (METRICS).

Born in New York City in 1965 and raised in Athens, Greece. Valedictorian (1984) at Athens College; National Award of the Greek Mathematical Society (1984); MD (top rank of medical school class) from the National University of Athens in 1990; also received DSc in biopathology from the same institution. Trained at Harvard and Tufts (internal medicine and infectious diseases), then held positions at NIH, Johns Hopkins and Tufts. Chaired the Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina Medical School in 1999-2010 while also holding adjunct professor positions at Harvard, Tufts, and Imperial College. Senior Advisor on Knowledge Integration at NCI/NIH (2012-6). Served as President, Society for Research Synthesis Methodology, and editorial board member of many leading journals (including PLoS Medicine, Lancet, Annals of Internal Medicine, JNCI among others) and as Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Clinical Investigation (2010-2019). Delivered ~600 invited and honorary lectures. Recipient of many awards (e.g. European Award for Excellence in Clinical Science [2007], Medal for Distinguished Service, Teachers College, Columbia University [2015], Chanchlani Global Health Award [2017], Epiphany Science Courage Award [2018], Einstein fellow [2018]). Inducted in the Association of American Physicians (2009), European Academy of Cancer Sciences (2010) American Epidemiological Society (2015), European Academy of Sciences and Arts (2015), National Academy of Medicine (2018). Honorary titles from FORTH (2014) and Ioannina (2015), honorary doctorates from Rotterdam (2015), Athens (2017), Tilburg (2019), Edinburgh (2019, ceremony planned for 2020). Multiple honorary lectureships/visiting professorships (Caltech, Oxford, LSHTM, Yale, U Utah, U Conn, UC Davis, U Penn, Wash U St. Louis, NIH among others). The PLoS Medicine paper on “Why most published research findings are false” has been the most-accessed article in the history of Public Library of Science (3 million hits). Author of 7 literary books in Greek, three of which were shortlisted for best book of the year Anagnostis awards. Brave Thinker scientist for 2010 according to Atlantic, “may be one of the most influential scientists alive”. Highly Cited Researcher according to Thomson Reuters in both Clinical Medicine and in Social Sciences. Citation indices: h=199, m=8 per Google Scholar. Current citation rate: >4,500 new citations per month (among the 10 scientists worldwide who are currently the most commonly cited, perhaps also the currently most-cited physician). When contrasted against my vast ignorance, these values offer excellent proof that citation metrics can be horribly unreliable. I have no personal social media accounts - I admire people who can outpour their error-free wisdom in them, but I make a lot of errors, I need to revisit my writings multiple times before publishing, and I see no reason to make a fool of myself more frequently than it is sadly unavoidable. I consider myself privileged to have learned and to continue to learn from interactions with students and young scientists (of all ages) from all over the world and I love to be constantly reminded that I know next to nothing.

Public Links

Stanford Profiles

Dr. Andrew Kaufman

He has a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree from MIT, a Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree from North Carolina university and a PhD degree from Duke university.

Andrew J. Kaufman, M.D., A Medical Corporation is located in Thousand Oaks, CA, United States and is part of the Dermatologists Industry. Andrew J. Kaufman, M.D., A Medical Corporation has 25 total employees across all of its locations and generates $3.67 million in sales (USD).

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Dr. Jim Meehan MD

Jim Meehan MD is a physician, accomplished leader, and entrepreneur who provides innovative science and solutions that adhere to open, honest, transparent, and uncompromisingly patient-centered principles. He transforms raw data and scientific research into easy to understand information that educates, informs, and motivates changes in behavior to lead to improved health and wellness. Dr. Meehan believes in educating patients to be scientists of their own health.

As the former editor of a medical journal, Dr. Meehan is an expert in differentiating true science from manipulated, fraudulent, biased research. In his blog, Truth Seeker, Dr. Meehan exposes the corruption and indoctrination of today's healthcare and medicine while providing the latest up-to-date science to give you the autonomy and truth you need to make the most informed decisions about your health. Jim is exposing Big Pharma and other government-run health agencies to bring the hidden truth to you.

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