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Who Are These COVID-19 Vaccine Skeptics and What Do They Believe?
Epoch Times ^ | 10/21/2021 | Patricia Adams and Lawrence Solomon

Posted on 10/21/2021 9:12:07 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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Vaccine skeptics, vaccine refusers, vaccine deniers—these anti-vaxxers are scourges whose ignorance and misinformation are responsible for countless COVID-19 deaths, our public health authorities attest. Stamping their message out is so important that those with the biggest megaphones are being outed, threatened, and fired from their academic and medical posts, and wherever else they might be found.

So, who are these health heretics whose dangerous rhetoric is questioning prestigious public bodies such as the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, blue-chip pharma companies such as Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson, and the great majority of governments?

Dr. Peter McCullough, the author of more than 1,000 publications with over 500 citations in the National Library of Medicine, is one of the most outspoken critics of government COVID policies. He testified to the Texas Senate HHS Committee that his treatment protocol, including hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin, led to an 85 percent reduction in mortality. He also has been critical of mass COVID-19 vaccination, in part given safety concerns about the vaccines.

“Today, we have 800 cases of young people developing myocarditis, or inflammation of the heart,” McCullough, a cardiologist and internal medicine physician, said in a webinar in June. “I’m going to opine that because there is no clinical benefit whatsoever in young people to get the vaccine that even one case is too many.”

McCullough’s past positions include membership on President Bill Clinton’s advisory panel to health care and chair of more than 24 data safety monitoring boards for the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration. Following his criticisms of COVID policies, McCullough lost his positions (pdf) as vice chief of internal medicine at Baylor University Medical Center and chief of cardiovascular research at the Baylor Heart and Vascular Institute. He has been removed from his editorship of Cardiorenal Medicine, and he expects to be stripped of all eight of his professional accreditations.

Dr. Byram W. Bridle, an award-winning associate professor of viral immunology at the University of Guelph’s Department of Pathobiology, headed an advanced lab whose vaccine platform was funded by the Ontario government to develop a COVID-19 vaccine.

An expert in vaccinology, he states (pdf), “There is a plethora of scientific literature demonstrating that naturally acquired immunity against SARS-CoV-2 is likely superior to that conferred by vaccination only.”

He adds that “research from three independent groups has now demonstrated that those with naturally acquired immunity experience more severe side-effects from COVID-19 vaccines than those who were immunologically naïve prior to vaccination. In other words, for those with natural immunity, vaccination is not only unnecessary, but it would put them at enhanced risk of harm. Knowing this, nobody should ever mandate COVID-19 vaccination.”

Bridle, who has natural immunity but is now banned from the university campus for not complying with the university’s vaccine mandate (pdf), believes that his workplace became “a poisoned environment where the bullying, harassment, and hatred against me have been incessant,” and states his life has been “destroyed.”

Dr. Robert Malone, the inventor of mRNA vaccines while at the Salk Institute in 1988, is also an inventor of DNA vaccines. He has some 100 peer-reviewed publications and published abstracts and 11,477 citations of his peer-reviewed publications. Malone believes that for “high-risk populations, the risk/benefit ratio for the USA vaccines seem to make sense,” but that it’s “demonstrably false” to claim that “these genetic vaccines are the only path available to herd immunity” or are “perfectly safe.”

Malone, who is now allegedly subject to death threats, has become one of the most vilified scientists on earth, his accomplishments denigrated in magazines such as The Atlantic and throughout the mainstream and social media.

Others who have been vilified in the mainstream and social media include Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, professor at Stanford University Medical School, who stated that COVID-19 vaccination should be a matter of personal health and that “there’s no public health reason for a mandate“; Dr. Sunetra Gupta, infectious disease epidemiologist and professor of theoretical epidemiology at the University of Oxford, who stated that “it is really not logical to use vaccines to protect other people. … The bottom line is that these vaccines do not prevent transmission”; and Dr. Martin Kulldorff, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, who stated that “thinking that everyone must be vaccinated is as scientifically flawed as thinking nobody should. COVID vaccines are important for older high-risk people, and their care-takers. Those with prior natural infection do not need it. Nor children.”

Many more eminent COVID-19 vaccine skeptics have remained silent, for fear of being punished. In the United States, the Federation of State Medical Boards warned that “physicians who generate and spread COVID-19 vaccine misinformation or disinformation are risking disciplinary action by state medical boards, including the suspension or revocation of their medical license,” a warning repeated in Canada by provincial licensing bodies such as the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario.

The ranks of the so-called vaccine skeptics include a Who’s Who of the world’s leading scientists. Few in the public know of them because they’ve been silenced, censored, and sidelined. Public health authorities may brand them as unscientific COVID kooks, but McCullough, Bridle, Malone, et al. haven’t been the ones acting as snake oil salesmen, offering instant cures to anyone in the crowd willing to chance their medicine.

The hard sell and sweeping claims have been coming from the public health officials, most of whom have far fewer scientific accomplishments, and are far less knowledgeable, than the vaccine skeptics they cavalierly dismiss.

Views expressed in this article are the opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.


ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Patricia Adams

Patricia Adams is an economist and the President of the Energy Probe Research Foundation and Probe International, an independent think tank in Canada and around the world. She is the publisher of internet news services Three Gorges Probe and Odious Debts Online and the author or editor of numerous books. Her books and articles have been translated into Chinese, Spanish, Bengali, Japanese, and Bahasa Indonesia. She can be reached at patriciaadams@probeinternational.org.

Lawrence Solomon

Lawrence Solomon is an Epoch Times columnist, author, and executive director of the Toronto-based Consumer Policy Institute.


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: anthonyfauci; branchcovidians; covid; covidstooges; lawrencesolomon; obamacare; patriciaadams; skeptics; va666ine; vaccine; vaccinemandates; vaxholes
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To: Little Ray

Pretty good summation!

This mess is like following villains in a movie as their time is running out. They double down before everything they planned falls apart. This is how I see the Passport people. I love the thought that the whole thing will peter out and leave them mad and sad.

Unfortunately, though, only for now. Each time they get a chance at the globalist dream they move us a little closer to it.


41 posted on 10/21/2021 11:16:18 AM PDT by avenir
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To: SeekAndFind
I believe anything the government is trying to force you to do is never good.

Change my mind.

42 posted on 10/21/2021 11:22:00 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (add a dab of lavender in milk, leave town with an orange and pretend you're laughing with it)
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To: avenir

That’s the point of the whole COVID show.
It never stops.
COVID is, essentially, a cold virus. It will never stop mutating and dodging the notavaxes.
Also, if the conspiracy theorists are right, the notavax is destroying its victims’ immune systems.
The crisis will be perpetual.


43 posted on 10/21/2021 11:25:46 AM PDT by Little Ray (Civilization runs on a narrow margin. What sustains it is not magic, but hard work. )
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To: cgbg
The pro-vaxxers have this fear removed by the vaxxes.

Not to keep flogging this horse, but you're helping me think through some of the things I'm seeing with some of our more difficult employees, and even customers. The vaccinations have not removed their fear. They still want to enforce mask and vaccine mandates because they're a) clinging to their hysteria and b) getting some sort of validation of "moral superiority" (or something) by being on the "right side" of this issue.

But you've raised a good point, there could be something as insanely irrational as thinking that the vax confers immortality. I just don't get it, especially coming from people who are at essentially zero risk of any serious illness from this bug.

44 posted on 10/21/2021 12:02:00 PM PDT by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
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To: Rennes Templar

Holy crap! That was by far the best video I’ve seen. Thank you for finding it. This is unreal!


45 posted on 10/21/2021 12:13:25 PM PDT by The MAGA-Deplorian (Democrats are lawless because Republicans are ball-less!)
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To: absalom01
This is a really interesting new web page that is getting me to rethink some things:

https://fitzinfo.net/2021/10/18/the-basic-laws-of-human-stupidity/

I think laws 2,3 and 4 are what we are dealing with here:

The five laws of stupidity:

"1.Always and inevitably, everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.

2.The probability that a certain person (will) be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.

3. A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.

4. Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular, non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places, and under any circumstances, to deal and/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake.

5.A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person."
46 posted on 10/21/2021 12:23:42 PM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: Robert DeLong

>>> I don’t even like calling those who refuse to take these shots anti-vaxxers, because they are not really vaccines in my eyes.

You are right of course... they are NOT vaccines.

That’s why they had to change the definition.

Now we don’t even know what a vaccine is.

As long as it can claim to “protect you”, it’s a vaccine now.


47 posted on 10/21/2021 12:39:47 PM PDT by Safrguns
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To: SeekAndFind
We are those who have watched a corrupt FDA for decades.

We are capable of understanding data, and reading studies to understand when the conclusions are warranted and when they are not.

We have watched as conclusions are driven by politics and NOT the data.

We have learned how to source information that is avoided or suppressed by the MSM.

48 posted on 10/21/2021 12:47:55 PM PDT by G Larry (I speak to be precise and refusing to change doesn't mean you can assign imprecise labels.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I am not a medical expert but I am and have been skeptical from the beginning. First off, my family were Downwinders from the Nevada nuclear tests so we don’t trust the “benevolent” government. Second, following vaccinations, my cousin’s 36-year-old healthy son developed a sudden autoimmune disease and passed away after more than six weeks in the ICU, my daughter suddenly developed a seriously low homoglobin condition for which the doctors can’t find a cause, my brother and sister-in-law got Covid months after their shots, and yesterday my sister, age 71, had minor surgery on an eye and passed away after her heart stopped on the operating table and they couldn’t revive her. These may all be coincidences but I don’t feel like taking more chances with our genetic heritage.


49 posted on 10/21/2021 12:48:08 PM PDT by caseinpoint (Don't get thickly involved in thin things.)
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To: T.B. Yoits
The jab jihad of the demon rats who serve the new world order ghouls know these are not vqaccines. And now even the DOD has come to some very contradictory conclusions, prompting the vax jehadis to ignore the data:

Finally, newly reported research is worth noting: High viral load was found in “158 of 232 unvaccinated (68%…) and 156 of 225 fully vaccinated (69%…) symptomatic individuals.” This means there is no difference between the symptomatic vaccinated and unvaccinated in terms of who was carrying, and therefore spreading, the virus. It also found high viral loads in “7 of 24 unvaccinated (29%…) and 9 of 11 fully vaccinated asymptomatic individuals (82%…).” Meaning, among asymptomatic individuals, the

vaccinated had a higher percentage with a high viral load. A valid conclusion is that the unvaccinated that catch the virus are more likely to be at home in bed with symptoms, while the vaccinated that catch the virus (breakthrough infection) may often have no symptoms and hence continue their daily routine unknowingly spreading the virus. This is why many medical experts refer to the vaccinated as super spreaders. Indeed, the eminent Dr. Robert Malone, inventor of mRNA vaccines, has emphasized that vaccinated people in their normal activities are “going to be spreading the virus like crazy.”

The vaccinated are the superspreaders, spreading virus to vaccinated sheeple, an alarming number of whom will have breakthrough infections on a severe scale..

50 posted on 10/21/2021 12:56:01 PM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: Pearls Before Swine
It is odd... to vaccinate afterwards, where natural immunity should be in play. I wonder what his thought process was.

https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2021/09/14/researchers-superhuman-immunity-covid-19/

51 posted on 10/21/2021 2:26:32 PM PDT by xone ( )
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To: The MAGA-Deplorian

And it’s all covered up. If the masses knew this, it would all stop.


52 posted on 10/21/2021 4:20:15 PM PDT by Rennes Templar (Come back, President Trump.)
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