As a university academic, and former pharmacist, whose speciality is misinformation, disinformation and fake news, I have been very active of late in collecting (and writing) papers appearing in medical journals that provide evidence and arguments against the COVID-19 vaccines. Below is a summary of some of the recent papers I find to be most concerning.
Vaccine effectiveness and safety exaggerated
An article appearing in the Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, including BMJ Editor Peter Doshi amongst its authors, discusses several biases that, if not accounted for, indicate that the effectiveness of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines in observational studies is being heavily exaggerated. The most important appears to be one many of us have worried about from the beginning, the dubious ‘case-counting window bias’, which concerns the seven days, 14 days or even 21 days after the jab where we are meant to overlook jab-related issues, particularly poor effectiveness, as “the vaccine has not had sufficient time to stimulate the immune system”. In an example using some data from Pfizer’s clinical trial, the authors show that thanks to this bias, a vaccine with effectiveness of 0%, which is confirmed in the hypothetical clinical trial, could be seen in observational studies as having effectiveness of 48%.
In a follow-up article in the same journal I revealed ways in which the situation may even be worse. The aforementioned ‘case-counting window bias’ is often accompanied by a ‘definitional bias’, whereby the Covid cases in the vaccinated are not just ignored, but shifted over to the unvaccinated. So building on the above example, a vaccine with 0% effectiveness can actually be perceived as having 65% effectiveness. My article also shows, touching on the intriguing (horrifying?) issue of negative effectiveness, “a vaccine with minus-100% effectiveness, meaning that it makes symptomatic COVID-19 infection twice as likely, can be perceived as being 47% effective”. Furthermore, “Repeated calculations will show that moderate vaccine effectiveness is still perceived even with actual vaccine effectiveness figures of minus-1,000% and lower”. I also explained that this exaggeration could equally apply to studies on vaccine safety, which would be important when comparing the overall health of the vaccinated and unvaccinated, as may be appropriate when looking into the mysterious rise in non-Covid excess deaths post-pandemic.
Doshi, joined by one of his earlier co-authors, decided to produce another article in the same journal, a follow-up to my follow-up, shifting the focus from observational studies to the clinical trials. They found that case counting “only began once participants were seven days (Pfizer) or 14 days (Moderna) post Dose 2, or approximately four to six weeks after Dose 1”. The obvious implication:
Decisions on when to initiate the case counting window affected calculations of vaccine efficacy. Because cases occurring in the four to six weeks between Dose 1 and the case counting window were excluded, reported vaccine efficacy against COVID-19 (the primary endpoint) at the time of Emergency Use Authorisation was higher than what would have been calculated had all COVID-19 cases after Dose 1 been included, as in a conventional Intent-to-Treat analysis.
They also found that “different case counting windows” were used at different times, ‘coincidentally’ yielding better results.
Not yet published, though under peer review, is my intended fourth and final article in this unofficial ‘series’. Firstly, I justify my earlier concern of exaggerated safety in observational studies, or studies built on observational data and models rather than data from controlled trials, by discussing a recently published paper in another journal, noting how the authors only count vaccine adverse effects from 14 days after the second dose (or seven days after the latest booster shot), and stopping the count at around four to five months. As if to highlight the potential magnitude of safety exaggeration with so many adverse effects being overlooked, the study, flawed as it is, showed only a very slight net benefit to vaccination. A more complete view of adverse effects (as well as cases in the ‘partially vaccinated’) could easily lead to the conclusion that the risks of COVID-19 vaccination outweigh the benefits. I also explain that there are issues with the adverse effect counting windows in the clinical trials in relation to their short length. The safety monitoring ends mere months after vaccination, though adverse effects can manifest clinically years later.
Vaccine-induced myocarditis and young males
In the latter article, and in a rapid response published by BMJ Open, I also discuss recent evidence and journal articles on myocarditis, with one finding a “Covid vaccine-induced myocarditis incidence rate of around one in 100,000, and around one in 19,000 for males between the ages of 12 and 17 years”. These authors also found that a significant number of people with Covid vaccine-induced myocarditis end up dead soon afterwards. Go ahead and contrast this with the U.K. Government’s determination of numbers needed to vaccinate to prevent a severe Covid hospitalisation being in the hundreds of thousands for young ‘no risk’ groups.
In research I hope to be published soon, I show how Pfizer estimates an even greater incidence of myocarditis in young males, and it also estimates that one million vaccinated will result in zero to one saved lives. Yes, zero is included as a real possibility. By Pfizer. It would appear that, at least for certain groups, this one adverse effect alone undoes the claim that the ‘risks outweigh the benefits’. The risk of vaccine-induced myocarditis may indeed be very small, but the risk of serious Covid in the young and healthy is smaller still. If you’re a young male and if you’ve received one of these novel COVID-19 vaccines, it may be worthwhile testing for preclinical myocarditis.
Negative effectiveness
I couldn’t leave you hanging after dangling this juicy but horrifying morsel in front of you earlier. I managed to get another rapid response published, in the BMJ proper this time, on the topic of negative effectiveness. While rapid waning of effectiveness and exaggeration of effectiveness is concerning enough, particularly as we learn more about the adverse effects, the phenomenon of COVID-19 vaccine negative effectiveness could completely end the discussion as to whether the COVID-19 vaccines are net useful or not. There is increasing evidence for this phenomenon (in relation to infections, hospitalisations and deaths), with one study revealing a dose-dependent relationship. The more COVID-19 jabs, the more the risk of COVID-19. If that sounds concerning to you, well, quite. My rapid response effectively refuted an article in the BMJ trying – and failing horribly – to explain this phenomenon away. If negative effectiveness is occurring, there is no such thing as ‘risks vs benefits’. There is only ‘risks plus risks’. We need explanations from the manufacturers and regulators, as a matter of urgency.
Dr. Raphael Lataster is an Associate Lecturer at the University of Sydney, specialised in misinformation, and a former pharmacist. This summary is adapted from several entries originally appearing in Lataster’s Substack newsletter, Okay Then News. Read more on his research and legal actions, including his recent win against the healthcare vaccine mandate in New South Wales.
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Thank you. Although it may not interest laymen, it’s critical that a large and comprehensive body of academic research is built up quickly, before the servers are scrubbed.
I’d happy contribute to a crowdfund for a 10,000 page academic quality ‘bible’ making the sceptical argument against lockdowns and the rushed ‘safe and effectives’.
I would happy contribute for wood for a scaffold and 1/2 inch rope, preferably hemp, it’s better for the environment.
Or if the downvoter prefers polypropylene that’s ok also.
Single fence wire is good too, with certain improved effects after a few minutes.
I’d be more scared about the sceptics being scrubbed than the servers. Data can be replaced. Around the time of Climategate, any academic researcher whose evidence did not support the Anthropogenic Global Warming narrative found their pass cards didn’t work the next Monday. The Cancel Culture was around in 2005 but has reached new heights with the arrival of Vaccine Scepticism. I guess those in the medical profession fear sanctions from their professional standards bodies should they express doubts over the Lockdown and over vaccination.
Just like the false “CO2 Will Kill Us All” hype, the only way the COVID vaccine scandal will be exposed and its perpetrators punished will be if the Mainstream Media decides to go after it. Unfortunately it seems that will never happen, journalists and producers working at the BBC, SKY News etc. etc. don’t have the balls to disobey their woke corporate bosses.
I’m fortunately jab free, but my wife was diagnosed with a pulmonary embolism shortly after her 2nd Astra Zeneca shot. She had a check up with a BUPA doctor last week (she’s “fine” by the way) who asked her if it occured shortly after vaccination. He openly stated that the vaccines were causing lots of problems to lots of patients.
I would guess that many in the health service are fully aware of the damage that they have caused but are fearful for their jobs if they speak out.
Is this how free expression and freedom of speech are supposed to work in a “constitutional monarchy” ?
I bet he wouldn’t say that if he was working in an NHS hospital! Anyway, I’m glad I declined the offer when it as made to me back in 2021. Given my historic experience in the use of top-end safety systems (nothing to do with medicine), I smelt a rat quite early on. It was a rush job without proper development, so what a surprise that hazards are now emerging in the real world.
She works for a global pharmaceutical company and has always remarked on how it takes a good 10 years to get drugs to market. She also told me in Spring 2020 that her company had been working on a coronavirus vaccine for animals for nearly 20 years – but unsuccessfully. I seem to recall that lots of animals died during testing.
Despite knowing this, she took the shots. I think it comes down to her trusting people “in authority”, whilst my default has always been that they’re all chancers until they prove themselves to me that they’re not.
Far too many people trust anyone “in authority” when their default position should be “if they’re in authority, don’t trust them.”
Like the political class – never believe one word they utter until they prove otherwise.
I work in the health service and have said since the beginning that almost all the deaths (90% IMO) were iatrogenic ( caused by the medical profession).
The rest (10% IMO) were caused by the politicians who believed what the medical profession were telling them and implemented harmful policies (lockdowns and effective shutdown of the health system).
The global deaths due to the virus Covid 19 today stand at 0 (that’s ZERO to be clear) for the simple reason that it is an imaginary virus.
I believe it exists but it was a damp squib, nothing more impactful or threatening than any other resp virus, hence the necessity for and dependence on the lockstep, worldwide PsyOp and totalitarian Nazi treatment, unprecedented in most countries, that we all ( pretty much ) experienced. I’m with Jessica Rose on this. Most deaths and ‘cases’ ( well, with the latter your diagnosis depended on a dodgy, fraudulent test. Since when has that ever been necessary? Doctors have historically always gone by symptoms ) were flu/pneumonia which was attributed to Covid, early treatment as well as antibiotics were withheld, thereby people worsened and lives were lost which could have easily been saved.
We all know about the midazolam murders by now. Yes, one hell of a lot of iatrogenesis, but those orders were given from above, from outside of the medical establishment, but the buck stopped with the medical/healthcare professionals who should have been astute/courageous/compassionate enough to say something very early on and oppose what they were being asked to do. But they didn’t. They remained silent, therefore they all have significant blood on their hands and that can never be rationalized away ( ”just following orders” Really?? ) or forgiven. They had the knowledge, expertise and wisdom, borne from extensive medical training and thousands of hours on the job and all of that went out of the window merely because they were told here was a *novel* virus, very dangerous and only a special test could diagnose it. These people need strung up but just like the politicians they’ll never do time or get struck off for harms caused. You’re more likely to get struck off for advocating for your patient and questioning the narrative because you still remember what medical ethics and evidence-based healthcare are, and that is so 2019.
”Here’s what I think. C-19 deaths were pneumonia deaths. All the people who died from pneumonia didn’t have to. Antibiotics were withheld that normally would have saved their lives. This has nothing to do with what was circulating. It’s about changing cause of death, lying + fear.”
https://twitter.com/JesslovesMJK/status/1699375038632493376
No it doesn’t exist.
Show me one, just one, unequivocal Covid death.
Just one, that’s all I ask.
I would have thought that this being an imaginary virus would be a far. far more effective weapon against the Covidiots but, unfortunately, the ‘skeptics’ still side with the Covidiots in maintaining that Covid exists, the only question being it’s severity.
Continue to argue that and these people will get away with it, scott free.
I promise you.
Ah but I didn’t say anyone had died from it, only that I think it exists. It’s basically so insignificant that it just morphs in to the hundreds of other lurgy viruses we have floating about during winter. Some people swear their symptoms were so peculiar and unique, never experienced before, but all you have to do is look at the myriad of overlapping symptoms which can present in patients suffering from many other resp viruses and it becomes laughable and totally discredits these claims. I personally think Covid causes no special, specific symptoms. That bit was definitely a big part of the mass hysteria and propaganda. Same as ‘Long Covid’. It had to be sold as something completely novel, specific ( hence it needed its own test ) and therefore a threat to our immune systems.
What proof do you have that it exists?
Why would I have ”proof” that it exists? Re-read my posts. I’m saying that I *think* and *believe* it exists, and this is based on the not unreasonable possibility that something was concocted and released from a gain of function research lab ( given the involvement of Baric, Fauci, Daszak and the EcoHealth Alliance in researching coronaviruses extensively ) plus my readings of a variety of experts who are a lot more knowledgeable than I’ll ever be in this field, and I don’t see many of them proclaiming that Covid does not exist.
I always find it ironic and amusing that the only people who are completely willing to let Fauci, Daszak, etc, off the hook for the gain of function research lab leak, and don’t at least suspect that there was a lab leak of the virus, are the people who believe that the virus doesn’t exist. Strange bedfellows.
And also there is personal experience. Those of us who’ve had Covid understand that – though in many cases, including mine, it was relatively mild – it was an odd illness, not the same as a cold or flu. In my case it was much shorter than any flu I’ve ever had and very different. For example, when I had Covid, I never needed to blow my nose, I never needed to use even one tissue during the entire week when I had it, my head was completely dry and normal. Whereas when I have flu, I go through several boxes of tissues during at least two weeks.
So when you get this odd illness, and lo and behold you test positive for it, every day until you’re completely better, it’s difficult to believe that the test was coincidentally positive when you were ill, and coincidentally negative all the times you weren’t ill, and negative when you only had a cold. I’m not saying that the tests never give false positives but that the positives only occurred when I was ill with a type of illness I’ve never experienced before, which suggests that it was indeed Covid I experienced rather than a series of coincidences.
This sounds like an ex post factum rationalization to me: You had a period where you tested positive for Sars-CoV2 RNA fragments. Hence, you came to the conclusion that you must have been sick with an odd disease without real symptoms during that period. The alternative would be accepting that these test results are completely meaningless (which they are) and this would imply accepting that your cherished COVID pandemic was nothing but a very expensive and very cruelly executed porky.
No, that’s not correct, I had the illness first, and I experienced it as a very odd illness, and I was too unwell to go anywhere, so I was in no hurry to get tested. After a couple of days I did a lateral flow test, and for the first time ever, it was positive. (During the previous months I sometimes needed to do a lateral flow test to go to the theatre, for example, and it was always negative, unsurprisingly, because I never felt ill on those occasions.)
I hadn’t even much faith in the test, but when I tested positive when I was fairly sure I had Covid, I thought maybe the test is more reliable than I had thought. I continued to test positive every day until a few days after I felt better. And when I felt completely better, I tested negative again, and again.
So the test just confirmed what I was quite sure of anyway. This is not proof that I had Covid, but it convinces me that I very probably had, certainly much more convincing that to believe that the virus doesn’t exist which requires a lot of belief which I don’t have.
Many of us don’t know whether we had that infection or not. As an example, back in early Spring I had a minor respiratory one, and no formal ‘test’ was done. However, soon after I had an appointment with my dentist, and beforehand I had to fill out an online survey with a list of experienced symptoms that they were interested in under the heading “Covid-19”. It had a time limit on it, so I answered “no” to them all (about 10 of them). If it had been yes, they’d probably cancel the appointment.
This is an interesting one, and all the other videos from Drs Bailey!
https://odysee.com/@drsambailey:c/are-viruses-even-a-scientific-theory:2
Good news that your wife is ok now.
Captain Obvious making an appearance here but the thing that rankles with me ( well, one of many tbh ) is the fact that these jabs were never even necessary in the first place. Not in the context of protecting the world and their dog ( and the zoo animals. How could we forget them? ) from a respiratory virus anyway. But I think we can all agree now that the ulterior motive for getting the world jabbed is much clearer with the benefit of hindsight and all of this contradictory to the narrative evidence that just will not stop surfacing.
I still have not had a satisfactory explanation to my question about why on earth Swedes, who did not partake in much of the plandemonium mass hysteria and trampling of human rights that the rest of the world was enduring in those dark times, and who lived pretty much like they did in 2019, went and got jabbed in their droves once they were able. They hadn’t been frightened into submission or brainwashed that they had to stay home or only go out with a muzzle in situ. I don’t buy the suggestion that it’s because they’re an obedient lot that trust their government without question. Not only is that insulting, as it makes them sound like automatons or morons, unable to think for themselves and awaiting instructions like drones, but it also doesn’t explain why on earth they wouldn’t just go by recent lived experience; e.g, they lived through 2020 like normal people, didn’t get sick or die, so what exactly is there to get vaccinated against? It’s just not logical is it? They certainly can’t claim it was out of fear of a virus because that would 100% contradict their behaviour in 2020. I think the only way I’m going to get to the bottom of the mystery is by asking a Swedish person! lol
Here’s a 7min video where a guy lives in Sweden then has to go back to his home country of Israel during 2020 and experiences the stark contrast between the two.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/IxGVfTmxk31q/
What other explanation is there though? They’re human, and therefore just as susceptible to propaganda and groupthink as everyone else. People in the UK were proudly going to get ‘vaccinated’ against something they’d already had and had made them a bit sniffly for three days! Just as bonkers!
We can only conclude that there is some fundamental part of our programming that simply accepts that we must do whatever we’re told, no matter how illogical or ridiculous. That’s ‘normal’ – we’re the weird ones!
Just doesn’t wash with me though. And remember, the British were terrorized and had that extensive, hardcore brainwashing extravaganza going on. Sweden not.
2020: Cool as cucumbers, everything open, no masks or distancing, behave like it’s 2019. The rest of the world’s lost the plot but just keep calm and carry on, nothing to fear, no propaganda or abuse courtesy of the government. Mostly thanks to the sensible Anders Whatshisname of course.
Cue 2021 when the jabs hit the market….”Quick PANIC! To the vaccine stations, on the double. Be afraid NOW, never mind what happened ( or didn’t ) last year. That was then, you were SAFE, now you’re in dire need of a vaccine to protect you against the thing that didn’t kill you last year but this year IT WILL! Pregnant ladies first please, you’re special cases because only THIS YEAR you’re high RISK.”
Nah, not buying it. You don’t suddenly become afraid of something you’ve effortlessly managed to survive and especially if your government doesn’t suddenly go full-on vax Nazi, like many of them did, threatening job loss, exclusion from society, bribery with all sorts of goodies etc. Where’s the incentive for a country to get 85+% jabbed when they sailed through 2020 sans vax?
They behaved normally in 2020 because their government didn’t tell them to change their behaviour.
They got jabbed in 2021 because their goverrnment told them to get jabbed.
How dangerous the virus or the jabs were didn’t come into it.
That sounds completely irrational and paints 85% of the population as stupid. I need to get the low down from an actual Swede otherwise all we have is conjecture. They didn’t have the PsyOp that most other countries did and they were living proof there was nothing to fear and yet so many rolled up their sleeves? Something
or just plain bizarre occurred. I’m wondering, but I’ve not checked it out yet, if other places that didn’t have restrictions during 2020 also saw a high uptake of the jib jab, such as Florida. Just seems so nonsensical to me. Like having Chicken Pox then getting a vaccine afterwards. This is basic stuff that anyone with a functioning brain should be able to process.
2021 was different. That was the start of the variant gambit, originally by Chris Whitty in order to kill Christmas by deploying the Kent variant he had already known about since early autumn. That was originally claimed to be so infective that even lockdowns couldn’t contain it. Corona’s dicknesses were trying really hard to play It’s really a new virus again! We’re back to square one! Everybody panic and freak out! based on variants until January 2022. My guess would be that’s what prompted the Swedes to get vaxxed (with a vaccine targetted at the orignal Sars-CoV2, for some more idiocy) after their government had started nudging them towards it.
BTW, one of my all time favourite jokes is The best proof that there’s intelligent life in the universe is that nobody ever visited us. On average, people are incredibly stupid and credulous. Otherwise, the lottery would have gone bankrupt a long time ago.
Absolutely, Mogs. Great point which I’ve never understood about Sweden.
We are indeed the weird ones, CG! CHEERS!
I’ve worked in medicine for 21 years now and have always said that no vaccine or drug will be effective against an imaginary illness.
Thanks to the author for compiling this evidence. When do the legal proceedings begin? I would hold each and every doctor involved with this programme criminally liable. None of this information is new. The harms were known to everyone who was sceptical and enquiring enough to do even the most basic research. The past 2 years have been one serious concern after another being shown to be true. Do doctors ever do their own reading? It doesn’t seem so. The entire profession is in disrepute, and most I suspect are too arrogant to admit it. I am still confident that there will be a reckoning however, and I doubt any of them feel particularly good about the tens or hundreds of thousands of pounds they made personally injecting these products into hapless victims who trusted them. Absolutely shameful and disgusting.
But will this be reported?
Truly unbelievable that this conversation is still going on. Sugests a schismic reality that is hard to comprehend given our conditiong and predisposition. This was all prophesied in various traditions. The Hopi talk a lot about exactly this time. The Australian aboriginies said that it would start in 2020 with a shortage of toilet paper in supermarkets and that this moment would mark a parting of the ways. Those capable of ascension would be moved into a higher reality and the others would be consigned to a perpetual totalitarian boredom and that these worlds would separate and become distinct realities.
It’s a very simple statistical trick.
Norman Fenton demonstrated how the trick works in the video below.
As long as the vaccinated have a time delay before being classified as vaccinated, (7, 14 or 21 days is the usual period) then even saline solution (salt water) can be shown to be an effective vaccine.
If you don’t believe it then try and find a study that classifies someone as being vaccinated at the moment they are injected.
We’ll save you the time though, you won’t find one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gkh6N-ZL3_k
https://odysee.com/@drsambailey:c/are-viruses-even-a-scientific-theory:2
Most Interesting and all the other videos from Drs Bailey.
We have to move on we have reality to consider. At the moment reality is still pretty much what you want it to be. This is not going to continue for much longer. We need to understand each other in reality.
Honestly if you are still caught up in this discussion then you need to get out more. This injection is the biggest mass murder weapon in history. We don’t worry about anything we can back all of this up.
My Mum cried when I refused to have the vaccine, because of the threats being made about imprisonment and fines, plus that I might actually get ill. I got so down about the state of things that I didn’t eat or drink for four days either, so that was part of it too.
Now, I’m in good physical health – psychologically, not so great: still angry and terrified they’re going to try restriction crap again this winter. The Daily Mail is already nudging. My Mum, meanwhile, has had an internal defibrillator-pacemaker fitted because her heart was damaged by the first booster. She was poorly enough that she leapfrogged the 18-month waiting list!!