Given the policies many governments have adopted with respect to Covid vaccines – namely, making the lives of unvaccinated people as difficult as possible, while constantly expanding the definition of ‘unvaccinated’ – you’d hope we’d have a very good understanding of vaccine side effects.
It’s one thing to mandate vaccines that have been around for decades, such as those against polio and tetanus. It’s quite another to mandate novel vaccines whose approval process was expedited, and for which we have less than two years of follow-up data.
While current evidence suggests that serious side effects are rare, the same is true of Covid itself when we’re talking about healthy, young people or those with a prior infection. Hence it’s by no means clear that vaccination actually makes sense for these people – especially if you factor in the possibility of unknown, long-term effects.
So far, there’s evidence of an increased risk of blood clots following the Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca vaccines, and an increased risk of heart inflammation following the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines. While the absolute risks are still low, any side effects – however rare – have to be taken seriously.
What’s more, there’s evidence that side effects are more common in young people and those who’ve already had Covid – two groups that face very little risk from the disease itself.
However, we still don’t know exactly what the risk of side effects is for specific subgroups, such as ‘people aged 18–30 with a prior infection’. In addition, some conditions that have been linked to the vaccines (including one that resembles long Covid) are not yet well-understood.
Shouldn’t scientists be rushing to answer these and other unanswered questions about vaccine side effects? You’d certainly think so. But unfortunately, that isn’t the way science works in our current, politicised era.
As this surprisingly candid report in the journal Science notes, scientists have other things to consider aside from how pressing certain questions might be:
Probing possible side effects presents a dilemma to researchers: They risk fomenting rejection of vaccines that are generally safe, effective, and crucial to saving lives. “You have to be very careful” before tying COVID-19 vaccines to complications, Nath cautions. “You can make the wrong conclusion. … The implications are huge.” [Avindra Nath is clinical director at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke]
Researchers are reluctant to work on vaccine side effects for fear of causing, or being accused of causing, ‘vaccine hesitancy’. The Science report goes on:
Other researchers note the scientific community is uneasy about studying such effects. “Everyone is tiptoeing around it,” Pretorius says. “I’ve talked to a lot of clinicians and researchers at various universities, and they don’t want to touch it.” [Resia Pretorius is a physiologist at Stellenbosch University in South Africa]
Needless to say, this does not bode well for science. Nor does it bode well for vaccine uptake in the long term. After all, people will only take vaccines – whether for Covid or anything else – if they trust the medical establishment. And ignoring side effects, even rare ones, isn’t the way to build trust.
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This is the best information on Pfizer adverse events (official Israeli government survey) and it’s not pretty: How rare are vaccine side effects? Not very rare at all. (substack.com)
The Israeli Ministry of Health Actually Did a Survey of Adverse Events after The Booster Dose (substack.com)
Scientists who have the interests of children even in a small way should be studying side effects and as far as possible long term effects of the vaccines in children. IF they don’t and there are serious consequences these pathetic excuses for not doing it will not excuse science in general from its resposibility. Already there is a group of scientists advising strongly against vaccinating children under 15 and yet the government is encouraging it to happen in perfectly healthy children. It seems to me there can be only two reasons for this to be happening the first is to bost the obscene profits big pharma companies are making and the second is to protect members of the adult population. The second reason is not valid because its now known any beneficial effect of the vaccines wears off after a fairly short time and children having had Covid infection normally with out symptoms or very mild symptoms are subsequently better protected from the virus and its effect than those who are vaccinated.
In addition how much scientific research has gone into the effect of the vaccines in children going through puberty?
Suggest you look at this from UK Column by Doctors for Covid Ethics with particular reference to Dr Bhakdi, Prof. Palmer and Prof Burkhardt.
https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/doctors-for-covid-ethics-an-interdisciplinary-symposium-iii-the-truth-shall-set-you-free
I hope that these articles are sent to those in media outlets who, still this morning, Talk Radio, are maintaining what a wonderful the role out there has been in everyway you can think of. I think that when this injection trance is over and the reality of the damage is acknowledged, that broadcasters who have constantly encouraged their audience to take this intervention without looking at evidence to the contrary should take responsibility.
Governments have deliberately suppressed information about side effects, many of which are potentially lethal or may cause long-term disability.
Not one person who was foolish enough to have one of these jabs has given INFORMED consent, including their own personal level of risk.
They were all denied the relevant information.
I’m naturally cautious when it comes to any medication but I have had some vaccines in the past, as did my kids. Never again ….. I will never trust the Pharmaceutical Companies; the Authorising Authorities or any “scientist/medic” or Government Minister who tells me “it’s safe and effective.”
The lack of understanding of how scientists and academic clinicians get funds and department kudos has led to a belief is “the science “.
Covid19 has been an academics dream : 225,750 publications in 2 years many with pre prints and few controlled studies.
The rise of the media academic/doctor who purports expertise to parrot fear without should never happen again. The Dr Hillarys,Fegusons and Whittys have never subjected themselves to open debate with those of us who challenged their bizarre data.
Science can recover but only if those who so abused it are held to account.
All trust has gone, as far as I’m concerned. Either doctors knew and did nothing or were ignorant ( despite sceptics like us presenting all the data they would need) and therefore useless as “scientists”.
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That is all we ask. Do not push this vaccine on under 30s until we have more data. Never mandate it for anyone. And make the vaccine manufacturers liable for damages they cause. Clean and simple.
Public health officials, most scientists (or mainstream journalists for that matter) do NOT investigate anything that could blow up the authorized narrative.
I reached this conclusion in my investigative journalism of “early spread.” CDC officials have NEVER questioned or interviewed any of the 17 people who tested positive for COVID antibodies in April and May 2020 who experienced all the signature COVID symptoms in November and December 2019.
Maybe all or some of these people didn’t have COVID when they think they did, but couldn’t public health officials or research scientists at least have talked to these people and checked their medical records and antibody tests? They would have done this if they really cared about this thing called “the truth.” If they were trying to cover-up or conceal the truth, they would probably leave these people alone.
BTW, Tim McCain from Alabama was in ICU in a hospital for 28 days with all the COVID symptoms and clinical presentations of a severe Covid case. There are thousands of pages of his medical records, public health officials could look at. The hospital that treated him would not authorize an interview and never shared these medical records with the CDC or… Read more »
Cowards and bought men in white coats struggling feebly with temptations of glory and loadsamoney, while Bond villains of the state nudge them to do whatever it takes to overcome their nominal scruples.
To every action there is an equal & opposite reaction. The coercive nature of the Government’s policy has been to increase reisitance to vaccination.
From these charts from the HSA’s weekly vaccine surveillance report: COVID-19 vaccine weekly surveillance reports (weeks 39 to 7, 2021 to 2022) – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
If Djokovic were British he would be in the majority for his age cohort, 60% of whom have rejected the opportunity for a booster jab.
There’s a fascinating discussion of vaccine side effects – both good and bad – here. Vaccines in general, that is.
https://sebastianrushworth.com/2022/02/12/non-specific-vaccine-effects-with-dr-christine-stabell-benn/
The notion that the Covid-19 jab might have deleterious side-effects is of course heretical, so the frightened researchers duly expect the inquisition and prefer to keep their mouths shut, thank you very much.
Clearly Copernicus and Galileo were made of sterner stuff (the latter had to be put under house arrest: many today can sympathise with his plight from experience).
I recommend ‘The Physiology of Fear’ by C S Forester in The Nightmare, a collection of splendid but very grim stories about life in the Third Reich.
It’s about a medical researcher who devises an abominable experiment to investigate the physiological effects of fear. He himself suffers an equally hideous fate when he rashly publishes the true results, which show that the effects of fear are exactly the same in Nordics as in ‘inferior races’. ‘Can you imagine anything more absurd or more treasonable?’
The “vaccine” side effects have already been studied by REAL SCIENTISTS and they are catastrophic, they are without comparison in medical/pharmaceutical history! So fuck the white coated whores of big pharma, you have accepted your filthy lucre and destroyed trust in science and medicine for a generation…
If scientists are afraid of pursuing knowledge due to fear of other scientists, where exactly does that leave us?
Is this what a quarter century of left-influenced education has bestowed upon us?
Discussing a related topic with a colleague at work, he agreed that it was OK for the government to lie, in order to increase vaccine uptake
Obviously your colleague is a sheep waiting to be fleeced.
The morality of Hell.
Would these ‘reluctant’ scientists be some of the many who work for Bill Gates and his ‘owned’ WHO? Or perhaps those who have financial or career interests involving Big Pharma?
I do think we ought to know. I recall a ‘reluctant scientist’ interviews by Dr Tess Lawrie who was unwilling to recommend the use of safe, life saving and effective ivermectin because of ‘pressures’.
It looks as if we are stil being played by the usual suspects.
The irony of course is that is the very fact that scientists and governments have their head in the sand over side effects and the subsequent stifling of debate which is probably the number one reason for most people not trusting the “vaccine”
Or any other “vaccine” perhaps, in the minds of some. Not that I am against all of them, it’s the loss of confidence that could emerge.
Ironically, Doctors not speaking out because they are afraid of losing their jobs will ultimately make no difference. If they seriously believe they’ll still have a cushy well paid job after big pharma and new technology move in, they’re deluding themselves.
I lost trust in the drug sector of the medical establishment when, aged 60, I was deemed to require a statin. Luckily the resulting nasty neurological side effects put me in touch with the scientists who keep questioning ‘the science’ and despite dire warnings from QRisk jockeys I am in better health today than I was 12 years ago.
Since then, there have been more revelations from within this scientific community that cast doubt on a number of medical dogmas, particularly the unconditional belief in the exclusivity of ‘germ theory’ despite the cognitive dissonance of recognition that individuals don’t all benefit equally from ‘vaccines’.
And now, after many years of blind acceptance that type 2 DM must, and can only, be controlled with insulin, a reexamination of the research (paid for in large part by the pharmaceutical industry) shows that the data supporting this did not reach statistical significance, and that there was therefore no benefit to using a regime of insulin treatment and blood sugar testing over simple dietary control of carbohydrate.
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Everything corrupt and weakened in western society can be traced to money printing. With no anchor to prevent states colluding with banks to create value artificially through the (electronic) printing press means that state authority can reward corrupt corporations and vice versa and then both corporations and state actors can use the control of money to maintain their power networks and spread them through our media, our military educational systems and our science and technology networks.
on a higher level international or rather supranational organs can then create networks of relations to cement national authorities and their mafia relationships at the top of their hierarchies.
these networks are perfectly suited to fascistic ideologies that treat the masses as cattle that need to be controlled by their masters up the food chain. This allows the establishment of psychopaths and their grooming through institutions like the WEF Young Leaders organisation.
Nothing short of a large section of the masses waking up and rejecting them possibly with force will end this. This is WW3 and these enemies are the inheritors of the third Reich. The Fourth Industrial revolution is the rise of the Fourth Reich.
Graphene covid jabs = toxicity + radiation = carditis, neurodegeneration, cancer.
This is what the ‘experts’ are too afraid to talk about.
I don’t want to investigate vaccine side effects because it might
save livesthreaten my career.I’m disappointed, Noah to see you treading the MSM party line. “While current evidence suggests that serious side effects are rare, the same is true of Covid itself when we’re talking about healthy, young people or those with a prior infection” This magic word “rare” never featured in real science before the Covid scam; most scientists sought to quantify context such as <10^-3 or one in a thousand. All I can say is that of the three I know who were reported having died with Covid over the last 2 years 2 were given the Midozolam & Remedesivir treatment while another was found to be covid +ve while visiting hospital and shortly died of a heart attack at 92. But my as they say ‘lived experience’ of others, much younger is of around 11 who have died within a few days or weeks of the injections, one last week
Jesus wept, did these “researchers” ever study or understand Science at all? Here’s a clue for them: it has to do with the discovery of “truth”, which they clearly rate lower than maintaining their reputation.
God give us strength.
Look at the Doctors who have spoken out about any aspect of this farce, their careers are destroyed.
Same thing for scientists, if you express the wrong view or come to the wrong conclusion they will destroy your career.
Only those prepared to sell their soul stay in the game.
Well, who would want to be a hero – saving lives and all that stuff?
With regards to an unproven experimental genetic treatment (with limited and inadequate manufacturer data from the outset) there was no sound basis for its deployment to millions. The ‘treatment’ was itself technically still in the phase 3 trials (hence manufacturer exemption from damages arising), people were effectively unpaid Guinea Pigs, so even the most tenuous link between ‘the jab’ and unexpected side effects should have triggered an immediate investigation and/or suspension of the roll out.
This is NOT a knee jerk reaction, and would have simply (ethically…) been good medical practice to err on the safe side when faced with so many unknowns. The precedent was set in the 1976 USA Swine Flu ‘fiasco’ when the roll out was halted after 32 to 50 deaths (depending on sources) and a possible link with a surge in Guillain-Barre syndrome.
Absolute risk is not low, at all, but nobody is looking into it because as your article points out they’re too bloody scared to.
It would be like researching the comparative IQs of white and non-white people. Supposing you found irrefutable evidence that whites were more intelligent?You’d be torn to pieces.