On behalf of hundreds of physician and scientist members of Physicians for Informed Consent, I am writing out of our concern that the bodily integrity of UC students, faculty, and staff is being potentially sacrificed by the recent UC Regents’ flu vaccine mandate,1 with no robust scientific justification. Patients have reported becoming ill following flu vaccination….
Month: September 2020
Boston Magazine reports “Could COVID-19 Have Escaped from a Lab?”
The world’s preeminent scientists say a theory from the Broad Institute’s Alina Chan is too wild to be believed. But when the theory is about the possibility of COVID being man-made, is this science or censorship? In January, as she watched the news about a novel virus spreading out of control in China, Alina Chan…
Home Vaccine Education Network reports “The Influenza Vaccine and COVID-19”
Flu Injection — Fatal Infection What connects the countries of Belgium, Peru, the UK, Spain, Italy, Chile, Sweden, the US, Mexico, and France? These countries, the top ten in COVID-19 mortality (as of August 24, 2020, according to Johns Hopkins), all injected more than 49% of their elderly populations with the flu vaccine. This stands in stark…
Children’s Health Defense reports “RFK, Jr. and CHD Take Action on Safety Concerns over Moderna’s COVID Vaccine”
On August 26, Children’s Health Defense (CHD) wrote a letter to Dr. Jerry Menikoff, Director of the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Human Research Protection (OHRP), asking for an investigation into serious safety concerns with the COVID-19 vaccine being developed by Moderna. Moderna’s version of the vaccine, championed by Dr. Anthony Fauci and…
Systematic Reviews reports “Benefits and harms of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines: systematic review with meta-analyses of trial data from clinical study reports”
At 4 years follow-up, the HPV vaccines decreased HPV-related cancer precursors and treatment procedures but increased serious nervous system disorders (exploratory analysis) and general harms. As the included trials were primarily designed to assess benefits and were not adequately designed to assess harms, the extent to which the HPV vaccines’ benefits outweigh their harms is unclear….
WSJ reports “Facebook to Curb Internal Debate Over Sensitive Issues Amid Staff Discord”
Mark Zuckerberg says employees shouldn’t have to confront social issues in their day-to-day work unless they want to Facebook Inc. is moving to curb internal debate around divisive political and social topics, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said Thursday, after a spate of disputes and criticism that has fueled discord among staffers. The steps will include…
CNBC reports “Facebook is cracking down on groups that give health advice and promote violence”
Facebook on Thursday announced new policies that will limit the spread of groups on its social network that focus on giving users health advice, as well as groups with ties to violence. The company will no longer show health groups in its recommendations, saying a blog post that “it’s crucial that people get their health information from authoritative…
Fox News reports “Dr. Scott Atlas says YouTube censorship of coronavirus information reminiscent of ‘third world countries'”
‘We are sort of teetering on the edge of what is done in third world countries,’ Atlas said “Dr. Atlas did what you can absolutely not do ever in this brave new world they’ve created,” Tucker Carlson said on his show Wednesday. “He pointed out that statistical models, the technocrats use to justify their’s existence have been catastrophically wrong.” Atlas said the…
WebMD reports “Half of Pediatricians Dismiss Anti-Vaccine Families”
Parents who choose to forgo or delay their children’s vaccinations may quickly find themselves without a pediatrician. Just over half (51%) of pediatric offices in the United States have a policy to dismiss families that refuse childhood vaccines, a nationwide survey found. Thirty-seven percent of pediatricians themselves said they often dismissed families for refusing vaccines, and 6% said they…
Medscape reports “Paul Offit’s Biggest Concern About COVID Vaccines”
Topol: Well, that gets us to the public trust and the fact that willingness to have the vaccine is important. Because if there is terrible mistrust, we won’t ever get to the level of immunity in the population. Offit: It’s hard to promote trust now absent data. Once we know the characteristics of these vaccines, it’ll be…