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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My assumption is the parliamentarians did not know. Twitter did though, and very quickly. I also suspect Trudeau did. But that’s probably based more on my dislike for the little tyrant than any actual intelligence data. There are some very strange things going on. This whole Zelenski appointment of Marina Abramovic as an ambassador is more than a little weird.
Spirit cooking
Ambassador.
If Rothschild is bothered about anti-semitic conspiracy theorist rumours that he is an evil puppeteer ruling the world – probably best not to get photographed in front of a painting titled “Satan Summoning his Legions” with a self proclaimed dark magic witch!!!
Marvellous. So well posed.
He appears to have managed to summon the first two!
I don’t normally lose it but the downtickers really are a bunch of Next Tuesday’s.
Yes I don’t get it. All I have done is post facts. I haven’t made any assertions about those facts. Seems odd so many Daily Sceptic readers would take issue with that.
I’m baffled
Why can’t these people say what it is they object to?
Dubious connections that make Jimmy Saville look like a saint.
“There are some very strange things going on.”
That is entirely the point. All that is happening is intended to be Orwellian.
Castreau knew.
Castreau
Canadian ‘values’
Full throated roaring for a Nazi
Their deputy PM Freeland comes from the same stock
What a bloody disgrace
A country in massive decline
Again with the massive downticking! What’s going on with DS readers today? Some sort of rent-a-mob thing? Weird.
Probably the government’s 77th Brigade, which should tell you something!
By our standards, huge down ticking for comments on this Ukraine-connected article. Perhaps it’s Ian Rons and his pro Ukraine mob? Fair to say though that there is a lot of establishment weight thrown into supporting this mad proxy war against Russia, and the ‘it’s a good idea for Nato to surround Russia and neutralise it before breaking it up and selling it to Blackrock’ brigade. Never forget – the alternative to this war would have been to stop shelling Luhansk and Donetsk provinces (ie civilians), grant them independence within Ukraine, and to enshrine Ukrainian neutrality, in military terms. That’s all Putin asked for in 2021.
There’s at least one Canadian who probably would not have applauded: (2) CAUGHT ON CAMERA: Pastor kicks out police without warrant from Passover service – YouTube
What a bloody insult to those Canadian lads who died in two World Wars.
Fair do’s, I understand that Adolf misgendered far fewer ppl than Winston, so what else is there to say?
…Don’t any of them have Google? It would have taken 2 minutes to find out who he is…..LOL!
They know they are supporting those people in Ukraine anyway..they all do…so we shouldn’t be very surprised…..don’t forget until the West’s apparent complete ‘amnesia’ about the Azov Battalion and the gnatzi far right elements in Ukraine…the USA Congress did not allow any weapons to go the Azov Battalion by law.
“This year, (2018) the $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill signed into law last week stipulates that “none of the funds made available by this act may be used to provide arms, training or other assistance to the Azov Battalion.”
White supremacy and neo-Nazism are unacceptable and have no place in our world,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), an outspoken critic of providing lethal aid to Ukraine, said I am very pleased that the recently passed omnibus prevents the U.S. from providing arms and training assistance to the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion fighting in Ukraine.”
Anyway the complaints are already coming in…
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/jewish-group-demands-apology-after-mps-honoured-man-who-fought-for-nazis-1.6575593
OTTAWA – Several Jewish advocacy organizations condemned members of Parliament on Sunday for giving a standing ovation to a man who fought for a Nazi unit during the Second World War.
The Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies issued a statement
saying the division “was responsible for the mass murder of innocent civilians with a level of brutality and malice that is unimaginable.”
It’s highly unlikely that the 14th division ever harmed black people so what’s the problem, why keep raking over the past? (sarc)
The sooner folks realise that MPs are just a bunch of grifting dilettantes the better. As for the downticking, I’d say the site is being trolled by a bunch of goons.
It would be funny it it were not so tragic! The Canadian Parliament member claimed he didn’t know who he was honouring. Well this has opened up a lot of eyes and hopefully has brought many people to their senses.
This guy was a volunteer in the Galician Einsatzgruppe of the Waffen SS.
Amongst their other actions was Babi Yar, one of the worst atrocities of the Holocaust.