Do the recent 80k pages of Pfizer documents released really show vaccine efficacy was only 12%?
This week Pfizer released a new stack of documents related to the Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 vaccine, with >80,000 pages of material released. ...
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Does McCullough's paper really "establish a mechanistic framework" for mRNA vaccine harm?
Peter McCullough & colleagues have just published a paper in Food and Chemical Toxicology that posits biological mechanisms underlying...
New CDC report on myocarditis after infection or vaccination from health systems covering 20% of USA
Myocarditis has been validated as a minority harm risk of mRNA vaccination. This risk was discovered early in 2021, and was added to the...
Masks: Paper shows 2020 mandates reduced spread, but that doesn't mean they are the right policy now
I have collaborated with a research team at PolicyLab at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) along with University of Pennsylvania...
Why it was infeasible for the phase 3 vaccine trials to use "all cause deaths" as the endpoint
I have seen numerous people claim that the placebo-controlled, phase 3 vaccine trials that used symptomatic infections as the primary...
UK death data artifacts: "Stragglers" who delay vaccine doses a select group with higher death risk
The UK Office of National Statistics (ONS) has released all-cause death data for England split out by age and vaccination groups. Its...
Paper demonstrating Omicron's immune escape vs. vaccination and previous infection
Biological researchers in Switzerland released a preprint in late December providing very useful information about the immune escape...
Vaccine insights from English population-wide COVID/non-COVID deaths split by vaccination status/age
Summary of Key points: The UK ONS posted data on all COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 deaths in England from Jan1 through Oct31, 2021, split out...
Correcting Berenson's optimally wrong take on vaccination and hospitalization risk from JAMA study
Alex Berenson is again misinterpreting/misrepresenting scientific data, this time saying this JAMA study shows vaccines “don’t stop Covid...
Response to Steve Kirsch's ad hominem attack, and clarifying the key sleight of hand in his argument
Here I am pulling out an Appendix to a recent blog post that responds to Steve Kirsch's substack post he wrote in response to that blog...
Renz "Whisteblower" data from CMS falsely claims death rate higher for SARS-CoV-2 vaccine than flu
Back in October, I write a blog post responding to the lawyer Renz's "whistleblower report" claiming that The USA government's Center for...
Texas A&M talk: Quantitative issues causing confusion for both skeptics and leaders in the pandemic
Last Friday gave a covid webinar at Texas A&M discussing various issues in the pandemic in which quantitative nuances have confused...
UK data: Impact of vaccines on deaths. Part 4: Partially vaccinated (>21 days after 1st dose)
This is part 4 in a 4 part blog post series exploring what the data posted by the UK's Office of National Statistics (ONS) on November...
UK data: Impact of vaccines on deaths. Part 3: Recently vaccinated (within 21 days of 1st dose)
I evaluate UK 2021 all cause deaths to compare recently vaccinated (w/in 21 days of 1st dose) and show no evidence of vaccine-caused deaths
Is watching the 1984 Ghostbusters movie killing people? A Statistician's Perspective
Is watching the 1984 Ghostbusters movie killing people? English adults under 60 who have watched the 1984 Ghostbusters movie are dying at...
UK Data: Impact of vaccines on deaths. Part 2: Fully vaccinated (both doses)
This is part 2 in a 4 part blog post series exploring what the data posted by the UK's Office of National Statistics (ONS) on November...
What do UK data tell us about effect of vaccination on deaths? Part 1: Comparing COVID-19 deaths
To what extent is societal vaccination saving lives? Are the vaccines really safe? Some active vaccine skeptics will present bits of...
Podcast interview on “Th Vax”: Real World Vaccine Safety
Surani's second podcast in the series is now up -- this one talks about safety. I was one of the interviewees on this podcast. The...
Interview on Surani Fernando's "Vax Files" Apple podcast, "Real World Effectiveness of the Vaccine"
I was interviewed by investigative journalist Surani Fernando for her podcast here in the episode on "Real World Vaccine Effectiveness"...
Evaluating claim in "peer reviewed" Toxicology Reports article vaccines kill 5 for every 1 save
There a paper published in Toxicology Reports that included an analysis purporting to estimate causal vaccine deaths in the US claiming...