Overall, the poll found that only 52% of Americans have a great deal of trust in CDC. Other health agencies were even lower — only 37% of Americans said they had a lot of trust in the National Institutes of Health or the Food and Drug Administration. https://www.wbur.org/npr/996331692/poll-finds-public-health-has-a-trust-problem
Tag: Medical Ethics
Organic Consumers Association reports “The Vaccine Passport Dilemma: How the Vaccine Passport Exacerbates Existing Inequalities In Society”
During the pandemic, the government public health institutions promised us solutions that failed to meet expectations. Based on faulty Imperial College models, we were promised lockdowns as a short-term solution that would contain the pandemic.We were promised that mask mandates would stop COVID-19 despite their ambiguous evidence for efficacy and the later evidence that showed less than promised benefits. Now we are…
IPAK reports “The Lies Vaccinologists Tell Themselves: VAERS Receives Due Scrutiny on Rating and COVID-19 VAERS Patterns Require Explanation”
Two articles in Volume 2 address the question of detecting signals in the US Vaccine AdverseEvents Reporting System (VAERS). Co-managed by the US CDC and the US FDA, VAERS is represented as having the strengths of containing national data, being able to “rapidly detect ‘safety’ signals” and “detect rare adverse events”, and that the VAERS…
Health Policy Watch reports “Does Global Health Have A ‘Colonialism’ Problem?”
IBADAN, Nigeria – In the wake of George Floyd’s death in June 2020, the decentralized protests initially organized by the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement triggered an awakening and an echo that has reached well beyond the borders of the United States. What started as a non-violent movement protesting against incidents of police brutality and…
ABC reports “Children as young as 6 months old now in COVID-19 vaccine trials.”
As nearly 140 million American adults have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine and we inch closer to herd immunity, vaccine makers Pfizer and Moderna have moved on to the next phase of the fight against the virus: studying to see if the vaccine will be safe and effective for children. “Children under 18…
Association of American Physicians and Surgeons reports “Peter McCullough, MD testifies to Texas Senate HHS Committee”
A testimony about the failure of public health to address COVID early treatments Transcript available here: https://www.jennifermargulis.net/peter-mccullough-md-compassion-crisis-in-medicine
Jeremy R Hammond reports “Oregon Medical Board Suspends Dr. Paul Thomas for Practicing Informed Consent”
Paul Thomas, MD, has had his medical license suspended essentially for respecting parents’ right to informed consent for vaccinations. Since 2008, Thomas has practiced pediatrics out of his clinic, Integrative Pediatrics, which is in Beaverton, Oregon, within the metropolitan area of Portland. The main accusation leveled at Thomas by the state medical board is that…
PLOS One reports “How Many Scientists Fabricate and Falsify Research? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Survey Data”
The frequency with which scientists fabricate and falsify data, or commit other forms of scientific misconduct is a matter of controversy. Many surveys have asked scientists directly whether they have committed or know of a colleague who committed research misconduct, but their results appeared difficult to compare and synthesize. This is the first meta-analysis of…
Mises Institute reports “Mandatory Covid-19 Vaccination Is Unethical and Unscientific”
If a vaccine is 100 percent effective, there is no justification for mandatory vaccination. Anyone who wishes to be protected can voluntarily take the vaccine. It would not be possible for someone declining the vaccine to harm someone who voluntarily takes the vaccine. Any call for a mandatory vaccine is an explicit admission that the vaccine…
National Pulse reports “Whistleblower Dr. Yan Releases Report Suggesting Coronavirus Was ‘Lab Modified’”
DR. LI MENG YAN – THE WHISTLEBLOWER WHO LEFT HONG KONG TO TELL THE WORLD ABOUT THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY’S VIRUS AND ITS TRUE ORIGINS – HAS NOW PUBLISHED A FULL REPORT INCLUDING PROTEIN SEQUENCING WHICH SHE CLAIMS SHOWS EVIDENCE OF LAB-MODIFICATION, RATHER THAN A NATURAL CAUSE OF THE VIRUS. The report opens by stating…