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December 16, 2024 - February 7, 2025
Regular Americans have no idea of just how much the education of our doctors is dictated by the pharmaceutical industry.
Guillain-Barré, a paralyzing nerve disorder, is a known reaction to flu shots and other vaccines.
This is a woman who had fiercely believed in and defended vaccines and the process of getting Covid vaccines into the arms of America’s children. “Well, first of all, you can’t trust the government or hospitals or doctors,” she says. “Doctors only know what they’re told. They don’t try to figure things out like you think. It’s not like on TV shows. I’ve learned that this is much bigger than just the Covid vaccine. There’s a lot more going on—it’s scary. It’s corrupt and all lies.”
vaccine was deemed “effective.” I kid you not. In what world is a vaccine’s performance for only one or two weeks indicative of anything about true effectiveness?
from Maddie’s study.
For the purposes of educating other doctors, Maddie simply doesn’t exist.
It is a strange time, indeed, when doctors are trained to be incurious and incautious, and when they are trained in ideology over evidence.
If you were trying to decide whether eating pesticide-laden food is harmful, would you want to get all your facts from people working in the pesticide industry? If you wondered whether water was safe to drink in East Palestine, Ohio, after the toxic Norfolk Southern train derailment, would you gather all of your information from people paid by Norfolk Southern? If you want to know if a medicine is safe, should all of your data come from the company making the drug?
There are so many experts taking money from the pharmaceutical industry that those in charge say it’s unrealistic to ban all of them from advising on medical issues.
one of the slowest and least reliable methods to discover safety concerns is to wait for them to appear in “peer-reviewed, published studies.”
Convincing the public that a peer-reviewed, published study is required to validate an alternative medical treatment, one that doesn’t involve a big-selling pharmaceutical product, guarantees that the big-selling pharmaceutical product will remain the go-to choice for most doctors and insurers.
The biggest funders of peer-reviewed, published studies are government and the pharmaceutical industry, and the likelihood that they’ll publish studies casting doubt on their star moneymaking commodities is low.
Convincing us to wait for the study that may never come allows a company to successfully forestall warnings or forced withdrawal ...
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“2 veteran researchers discuss how scientists publish in ‘peer reviewed’ journals: YOU pick your peer reviewers. The much lauded peer review process uncovered. This is how the magic happens, baby.”
a familiar figure is copied on the referenced email exchange about choosing which peers would review an article attempting to debunk Covid’s lab origins: Professor Ian Lipkin of Columbia University. It’s the same Ian Lipkin who had, years earlier, assured Hollywood star Robert De Niro that vaccines can’t possibly cause autism.
if every time you drink coffee you get a stomachache that you never get any other time, it’s reasonable to ask if the coffee might be the cause.
About fifteen years ago, the government secretly paid a multimillion-dollar settlement for autism and other vaccine damage to young Hannah Poling, then sealed the case to keep it secret. When the settlement leaked out to the press, the government spun the story like a top. Okay, yes, maybe we paid for Hannah’s vaccine injuries. But vaccines triggered her autism. They didn’t cause her autism. See? The link isn’t causal. So vaccines don’t “cause” autism.
identify the predispositions, then vaccinate those kids differently, develop different formulations for them, or avoid some of the most problematic vaccines entirely.
In a letter published in the British Medical Journal, an orthopedic surgeon rightly points to many reasons why EBM is flawed. He says the “blind pursuit of the holy grail of statistical significance” in studies can result in doctors overlooking harm to patients as well as ways to help them. Evidence-Based Medicine guidelines can be biased due to institutional support and conflicts of interest among those determining what constitutes EBM. The guidelines can be “slow and out of date.”
another flaw with Evidence-Based Medicine is that “no evidence of an effect” isn’t the same as “having no effect.”
“The scientific consensus” argument should raise suspicion each time you hear it. It’s presented as if it’s irrefutable. Yet, the scientific consensus is wrong All. The. Time.
the propagandists say, “the bulk of the credible science finds no link
Of course, the supposed “credible” studies are the ones funded by the company that makes the medicine.
Medical School Secrets
Do Merck’s Manuals tell doctors and med students about its own sordid history of deception and fraud?
Do Merck Manuals mention that the company’s own HPV cervical cancer vaccine, Gardasil, has been the center of major controversies about its safety and effectiveness? Does it disclose that injured patients have filed many lawsuits claiming the vaccines caused illnesses from ovarian failure to cancer?
Merck’s Manual makes an audacious claim under “Side Effects of HPV Vaccine.” It states flatly and falsely, “No serious side effects have been reported.” It’s unknown how that claim could possibly square with Gardasil’s FDA-approved label, also written by Merck, which states: “the following postmarketing adverse experiences have been spontaneously reported for GARDASIL: Blood and lymphatic system disorders: Autoimmune hemolytic anemia, idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, lymphadenopathy. Respiratory, thoracic, and mediastinal disorders: Pulmonary embolus. Gastrointestinal disorders:
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Blood clots, paralysis, seizures, brain damage, and death—yet the Merck Manual online tells med students, doctors, and consumers, “No serious side effects have been reported”? And how about this little beauty included on the information label for Gardasil 9: Gardasil isn’t recommended for pregnant women but 62 test subjects got pregnant 30 days before or 30 days after vaccination, and 18 of the pregnancies did not end with a live birth. There was an astounding 27.4 percent miscarriage rate, which is more than double that of women given a different version of the shot.
Does Merck, the maker of a measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine, tell the story of the CDC senior scientist, Dr. William Thompson, who became a whistleblower and told Congress that he and his colleagues altered a study to minimize links between MMR vaccine and autism in black boys?
Do the Merck Manuals include the opinion of the government’s own pro-vaccine expert, renowned pediatric neurologist Dr. Andrew Zimmerman, who came to conclude that vaccines can cause autism, after all?
Does Merck disclose to fledgling doctors that “autism” is listed on the label of the since-discontinued Tripedia (DTaP) vaccine under “adverse events reported” (along with “idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, SIDS, anaphylactic reaction, cellulitis, autism, convulsion/grand mal convulsion, encephalopathy, hypotonia, neuropathy, somnolence and apnea”)?
two doctors who are treating thousands of such patients tell me the sickest ones they see tend to be those who got the most vaccines and the most cases of Covid—which are usually one and the same patient.
or maybe that they have multiple sclerosis.
a consult with the famed Mayo Clinic brought her no improvement,
Some were told they might have MS.
It’s why chronic illnesses are running amok under the watch of the best-funded public health system on the planet. Why our government allows (and even mandates) that we eat food adulterated with cancer-causing chemicals, hormone disruptors, neurotoxins, and other poisons. We feed it to our children at home, and they’re fed more of it at school. It’s why our meat and fish contain harmful additives. Why our water is deemed safe to drink when it actually contains pesticides and other chemicals, and medicine that’s leached in after being excreted into sewers from our overmedicated population. In
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Among comparable developed nations, we’re taking the most pills, paying the most for our medical care, and growing the sickest.
greater skepticism should be applied to the authorities who proved incorrect. While this may sound obvious, if you examine the post-Covid landscape, you’ll see that many in media and medicine continue to illogically reference and quote the same authorities that gave the worst, most damaging advice.
Until not long ago, Americans were guided by the notion that bad ideas should be countered with better ideas—not censorship.
rather than countering their ideas with different, well-argued ideas.
No real scientist uses the term “settled science”
Identify Propaganda Terms
The odds are zero that so many writers and journalists would independently draw the same conclusions and use similar language at the same time over and over again. So when you see these patterns, it suggests an orchestrated effort. It should lead you to wonder who would want you to think that way, and why. You should consider the possibility that valid scientific counterpoints or facts are being suppressed.
Broaden your dragnet rather than shrink it. It’s a matter of how you use the sources. You’ll actually find yourself best informed if you continue to absorb slanted information pushed out daily so that you can compare it against better sources. Staying versed on false narratives dispatched by the usual suspects will make it easier for you to identify trustworthy information.
scale, as we’ve discussed. For example, the American Cancer Society receives an undisclosed amount of funding from the very industries that make products that can cause cancer.
and self-correct. One bold example of that is a medical student and researcher named Kevin Bass. In statements published in January 2023, Bass confessed, “I staunchly supported the efforts of the public health authorities when it came to COVID-19. I believed that the authorities responded to the largest public health crisis of our lives with compassion, diligence, and scientific expertise. I was with them when they called for lockdowns, vaccines, and boosters. I was wrong. We in the scientific community were wrong. And it cost lives. . . . It doesn’t matter much, but I wanted to apologize for
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He coauthored the Great Barrington Declaration, taking an early stand against the unscientific Covid lockdowns, rightly pointing out that such an approach had long been recognized as likely to do more harm than good.
He later cofounded a journalism group, The Intercept, then quit when his own organization censored his reporting on Biden family scandals.
experts say the federal database contains only a small fraction of the actual adverse events a medicine may cause: most doctors fail to properly report. Therefore, scientists say, each single adverse event that does get reported represents 1,000 to 100,000 times more that go unreported. This also explains why a mere handful of deaths that are officially connected to a drug are enough to sound alarm bells. Because 12 known serious injuries imply there could really be 12,000 to 1,200,000.
