The influential medical journal BMJ reported on WHO modelling (not yet published proper) purporting to show that COVID-19 vaccines “saved at least 1.4 million lives” in Europe. Given my published research on the effectiveness and safety of the jabs being exaggerated, of course I would have an issue or two with it. While the BMJ did not, as is typical, grant me the word count for a full ‘Lataster treatment’, it did at least allow me to publish a very short critique of the study as a ‘rapid response‘. Some of the issues I raised in this little debunking:
- The WHO European Respiratory Surveillance Network (WHOERS) assumed an absurdly low waning of vaccine effectiveness, 0.25% per week, when we all know that the jab’s effectiveness declines extraordinarily quickly, even turning negative (for Covid deaths as well as infections) within a year. Ironically, some of the most recent evidence for COVID-19 vaccine negative effectiveness comes from… the WHO.
- Estimates of expected mortality like IFRs/CFRs aren’t properly explained or justified, with the relevant section of the study’s supplementary material dealing with this containing several instances of “Error! Reference source not found”. You don’t say.
- The WHOERS somehow strongly encourages vaccination, though it only considered the benefits and not the risks of vaccination. Remember how we’re supposed to weigh up risks and benefits? Like a lot of things, that’s apparently on the way out. Reminds me of people gleefully plying kids with hormone pills and encouraging unnecessary surgeries, with nary a care for the potential consequences. I note the increasing research that the risks of the jab are quite substantial (they’re also still not fully known), and almost certainly outweigh the benefits (at least in the young and healthy). Even without this, encouraging these products without even mentioning the risks is beyond irresponsible.
- Of course I reference the JECP4 articles, especially the dodgy definitions of ‘vaccinated’ and ‘unvaccinated’ likely leading to highly exaggerated effectiveness and safety estimates. I note that the study’s supplementary material employs a bunch of studies that use such dodgy definitions.
- While the evidence of COVID-19 vaccine negative effectiveness continues to grow, some of it incredibly supplied by the WHO itself, it’s not factored at all in the WHOERS model.
- I didn’t have the word count to mention that WHO receives a chunk of funding from Bill Gates, who profited bigly off of the jabs. Conflict of interest much?
Recall that I also earlier criticised the U.S.-focused Kitano et al., published proper, and the Australian-focused Lin et al., which might be published in PLOS One soon as a comment. I’ve been struggling to get my critiques published of another major Australian study, and the big international one that Senator Ron Johnson personally asked me about – stay tuned. And if possible, I’d like to look at the New Zealand study.
As someone who has criticised several of these jab-promoting studies now I can inform you that they’re all pretty similar, and that includes the problems. The researchers typically use exaggerated estimates of COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness and safety; minimise or don’t even attempt to factor in the risks; minimise or don’t even account for rapid waning of vaccine effectiveness (and also negative effectiveness); use questionable datasets and COVID-19 IFRs/CFRs, hyping up the danger Covid poses and thus the potential benefits of the jabs; and fail to properly disclose their financial links to the vaccine manufacturers.
Dr. Raphael Lataster is an Associate Lecturer at the University of Sydney, specialised in misinformation, and a former pharmacist. This article was first published in his 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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I was very sceptical about the MRNA injections when they were first proposed in Spring 2020. I faced criticism at work and from friends and family when they realised that I hadn’t had one. Although not totally against them – I just thought that they were unnecessary for people without comorbidities, so was just going to wait and see how effective they were.
As I pointed out to my detractors at the time, I could always get injected later – but they were having an injection of a novel concoction – rushed through the development and production processes – with emergency use authorisation granted in dubious circumstance. Once jabbed, their choice was gone as they couldn’t “unjab” themselves. It seemed so obvious to me at the time and I am still shocked at how few people resisted and stood their ground.
Funnily enough, I do not know one person who refused the jabs back in late 2020 and 2021 who has subsequently taken them….
You put into words exactly what I was thinking at the time. The authorisation…effectively giving the pharmaceutical companies immunity from prosection…was the one thing that made me very suspicious of it all. I am unjabbed, despite difficulties it imposed on me being unable to visit my mother in Scandinavia without going into quarantine. My mother insisted that I did not take the jab just to see her.
All these FACTS about the jab were put on leaflets, warning about indemnity, yellow card issues etc and distributed to schools by a group of concerned people. Dr Hillary live on GMTV called it rubbish and ripped it up!
There was one manager at work who stated that he thought all people who had not been jabbed should never be allowed into the office. I refrained from pointing out that people who had been Death Jabbed were far more likely to catch and spread Covid than I.
Our New York and Washington offices had a blanket “no jab, no entry to the office” policy. When organising trips for my bosses, on being asked the question, I had to point out that they wouldn’t have been able to enter the country without it! I was lucky that I never had to visit the US for work at that time.
I knew a young lad around 22 whom, after his 2nd had to miss work for two days. All because he sees his Granny from time to time. He did say no way I’m having any more f@@ the lot of them was his words. I did try to warn him, I tried.
Several things led to me refusing to participate in their mass medical experiment:
I will now NEVER have another vaccine/jab. My policy going forward is to stay completely away from the NHS. I am relying on traditional remedies; Beneden Health membership if I need a GP and prescription; I will refuse a blood transfusion if I ever get to the stage where I need one. I will resist EVER being taken to an NHS hospital.
They’ve destroyed any trust I once had.
Thanks for this. Just common sense really.
“As someone who has criticised several of these jab-promoting studies now I can inform you that they’re all pretty similar, and that includes the problems. The researchers typically use exaggerated estimates of COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness and safety”
Look at any country’s death rates during the scam/plan demic. There are 2 spikes. Spring 2020 when they murdered the old and frail during LD 1, behind closed doors. And starting Dec 2020 when the stabbinations start. Every single country has the same graphs. The stabs killed and injured and in the real world, we all know people dead, or now with cancer, or who were sick, some seriously post the quackcination.
Massive excess deaths litter every stabbed country. Africa which did little stabbing, has no excess death patterns.
‘The $cience’ is a paid scam. Fraud for money, power and privilege. Few industries are as corrupt or criminal as Pharma.
For anyone who does not know about the murder of old people, and the resulting spike, in the UK Matt Hancock ordered old people out of hospitals and into care homes. The “Care” homes were told to treat them as having Covid. They isolated them and administered End of Life drugs.
When you look at the 2020 death graph you can see exactly when it happened. Your Parliament decided to do that. Are you going to vote for them again?
I’m voting Reform: they haven’t lied to me – yet – and they haven’t murdered anyone which Tories and, especially, Labour have done.
It would be good if Reform was to look into it, not just the jab harms. Tice was dismissive considering he is mates with Hancock and gave Andrew Bridgen a wide berth. With him gone and Nigel at the helm, they could encourage more libertarians like myself to hold their nose and vote for them.
On a planetary level, there seems to have been a notable increase in the number of deaths in 2020 but a further increase in 2021. Supposedly the type of Covid circulating in 2020 was a lot more dangerous than in the following year, and the most vulnerable had already been killed off in 2020, and “vaccinations” were completed during 2021. That doesn’t seem at all consistent with “vaccines” saving any lives at all- quite the opposite.
About the PATHWAYS cull, interesting how Hancock has recently asked to be given immunity from prosecution.
Has he now? I didn’t know that.
Well not that recently, sometime last year.
“published proper”, is this a genuine phrase or a dyslexic phone? An interesting sidenote on that: no spell checker I have tried knows “Starmer”. Perhaps he is a broken AI, he certainly does not know much including his own programming. He almost makes the foul-mouthed thief seem intelligent.
Kneel is sufficient in lieu of Starmer.
And Ranting done nothing wrong. Andy Burnham’s Schutzstaffel said so.
I’ve had this conversation with some true ‘Believers of the Jab’, about how many lives were ‘saved’ from Covid. My estimate is close to zero, and is not yet disproved.
In my view the Death Jabs caused deaths and “saved” none. They will go down in history as the most destructive weapon against humanity there has ever been. They will be passed down to babies and onward. It is a certainty they have shortened most peoples lives. There has been no testing on what they do to foetus or the resulting babies let alone pregnant women.
At one point the NHS stated the pregnant women should not use them. Two weeks later they said pregnant women definitely should. There was no testing on pregnant women whatsoever let alone full-term testing.
I simply cannot see any proof that the C1984 injections saved any lives. Not one.
Killed plenty though.
It is, quite simply, a logical fallacy that X didn’t happen because we did Y.
It is possible that X DID happen because we did Y, but not because we did NOT do Y.
“The pot did not fall off the table because we put a tablecloth on the table” – a nonsensical statement.
WHOERS
Is that an anagram?
I don’t think it is but definitely from the same family as WEFfers which I coined.
Definitely whores for big pharma!
They talked about manufacturing an event in order to release such a technology. Fauci said that Trump wouold be hit with a pandemic. They even carried out Event 201 which was in essence an evolution of several previous exercises which paid attention to new developments such as the rise of social media. Yes most people didn’t know about these antecedents but the reason that they didn’t know is because they didn’t care to consider reality. Usually a fatal mistake because reality will always bite you in the arse. You can condemn the big names but if you are honest you will accept that the condemnaton applies to most people and in the long view of history no such people can possibly survive.
We have until Aigust when the fireworks reallg go off. When they do our leaders will do the best they can to scarper. All of the events that are happening now are in preparaton for this. There is no plan for our protection just like there is no civil defence system in our country in the event of a nuclear exchange. Most European countries do have systems – the integration of undeground tunnels for dual use sheltering purposes. Nothing here just bunkers for MPs and council officials. Survival of the cockroaches.