On November 11th 2022, we wrote a formal letter of complaint to the Statistics Regulator about the Office for National Statistics’ (ONS) data on vaccine mortality. We said they were not fit for purpose.
Note that we concluded by saying:
The fact that these data are being used as continued justification for the efficacy and safety of the Covid vaccines is therefore now a matter of national concern and scandal… In the meantime, we call for
1. the public withdrawal of the ONS dataset and
2. the retraction of any claims made by others that are based upon it.
We have now received the formal response.
While there are aspects of the response that we are unhappy with, the crucial point is that the Regulator has completely accepted our main recommendation because it says that the “Death by Vaccination Status publication does not provide information on vaccine effectiveness or vaccine safety, and should not be used in this way”.
Many researchers and news organisations have made claims of vaccine efficacy and safety based on the ONS reports. We therefore now call on all those who have made such claims to publicly retract them.
It is also important to note that the Regulator agreed with our conclusions that the ONS population sample was biased – with those excluded much more likely to be unvaccinated.
We therefore call on all of those – including especially the BBC – who have used the ludicrously low estimates from the ONS to publicly withdraw all material based on these estimates, as they have been deliberately used to represent the unvaccinated as a tiny fringe minority.
The not-so-good news is that, as expected, the Regulator has gone to extreme lengths to defend the integrity of the ONS. In particular, it is putting forward the ‘healthy vaccinee effect’, which we have previously dealt with and which we will be further dismantling in the next few weeks.
Our analysis of the most recent ONS report on deaths by vaccination status is here. That report was published in July 2022 with the most recent data up to May 2022. Despite promises to do so, the ONS had not provided any updates to it since.
Until he retired in January, Norman Fenton was Professor in Risk Information Management at Queen Mary University of London. Martin Neil is Professor in Computer Science and Statistics at Queen Mary University of London. This article first appeared on their Substack page, Where Are the Numbers?
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Funded by B&M Gates & best friends with Chelsea Clinton.
Sridhar is the living embodiment of an establishment puppet.
I asked you this already, but regardless – have you played the Dane yet?
As a youth I used to weep in butcher’s shops.
The COVID science was always an interdisciplinary effort: Whoever had some well-sounding academic or at least medical title and was willing to have the right oponions in public could – no matter what his field of expertise, if any, actually was – become part of The Very Wise Sages®
‘Science’? No $cientism. Follow the money.
Real science has been dead since maths and models usurped physical reality (mid 19th century).
Einstein is a famous example (there are few things as stupid as relativity).
This non-Scot whatever she/zhe is has no idea about the immune system.
No one can prove to me that flying viruses exist.
Bacteria can’t exist outside a host.
“Devi Sridhar’s Knowledge of the Epidemiology of Respiratory Viruses Could be Written on the Back of a Postage Stamp”Wasn’t it blindingly obvious?
I always remember the great Ian Brown’s Twitter post in response to comments on his Twitter feed, which contained some “vaccine sceptical” views from smart-alecs along the lines of “Stick to singing mate, you don’t know anything about medicine”. His answer “OK, but you’re taking medical advice from a computer salesman” (Billy, in case you were wondering).
It must be harder for the authors to stomach than for the rest of us – their profession has disgraced itself despite their best efforts to do the right thing. A lifetime of work betrayed by the wicked, the stupird, the selfish and the lazy.
“A lifetime of work” is the issue here – all that study, all those exams, the belief that they were doing the right thing because the process drove them in that direction. To suggest or to ask them now to double check they did the right thing, they thought they knew the right thing, “the science” and were they in the wrong after all? It doesn’t bear thinking about. What a loss of face and of status. Better to double down and see no evil, hear no evil…
”If other countries can do it, there is no reason why we can’t, too.”
As Sir Desmond Swayne put it in a question in the Commons: “Herd stupidity”.
Quite, I still want to check out his voting record on all matters relating to CV NPIs etc ….
I think he voted against most/all of it – when they had votes. Lots of stuff was passed without a vote early on.
Credit where it is due. Clearly the estimed Doctors Heneghan and Jeffries have had enough of pussy-footing politeness and have opened an “who dares wins assault” and frankly I don’t blame them.
The time has come to get rid of the whole lot of them and this waste of space oxygen thief Sridhar deserves to be amongst the first.
A horrible blot on humanity.
When four days ago, I pointed out that Sridhar’s expertise lay in the field of anthropology and that perhaps an epidemiology/medicine/virology qualification might be better suited to her post as chair of Global Public Health (aka ‘the pandemic professor), three folk gave down votes. Prof’ Heneghan would seem to agree with my comment. Thank heaven I took his and Mike Yeadon’s advice and remain unstabbed.
As for the Olympically dim Richard Burgon, it doesn’t surprise me that he pinned his colours to Sridhar’s mast and is likely to be a front bencher in Starmer’s upcoming clown show. Sheesh!
All lockdowns do is kick the can down the road. Simply explainable with two packs of cards. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4kWbYlopN4
I’m a subscriber to TTE. Neil (perhaps the Neil who comments here – hope he doesn’t mind me quoting him) said this:
“First time I saw Devi on TV and heard she is a professor in the dept of public health at Edinburgh I had to find her background and was comforted to read she’s an anthropologist who wrote a book with the young Clinton. I thought that explained why her knowledge of virology and medicine differed from my 50 year old knowledge.
She was reported to be one of crankies favourites.
This last week has been a great relief to realise my understanding is ok!”