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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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1 posted on 10/21/2021 9:12:07 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

The guy who discovered the stuff say it doesn’t work!

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02483-w

In late 1987, Robert Malone performed a landmark experiment. He mixed strands of messenger RNA with droplets of fat, to create a kind of molecular stew. Human cells bathed in this genetic gumbo absorbed the mRNA, and began producing proteins from it1.


2 posted on 10/21/2021 9:15:46 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (They would have abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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C’mon man…the current crop of vaccines are NOT effective or safe…look at the data that slips out…


3 posted on 10/21/2021 9:18:46 AM PDT by TnTnTn
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To: SeekAndFind
The "vaccine skeptics" aren't skeptical of vaccines; they know that the CDC changed their definition of a vaccine to fit these things that don't confer immunity at all.

They're not "vaccine skeptics"; they're rightly "Jim Jones Jab skeptics".

They also know that the Mr. Fauxi lied through his teeth about illegally funding banned gain-of-function experiments, that the same Pfascist korporations pushing the Jim Jones Jab were in on Mr. Fauxi's crime, and that the same government that says you need the Jim Jones Jab has broken the law to abet infected illegal aliens entering this country and dispersing around the country during a supposed pandemic.

4 posted on 10/21/2021 9:19:49 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: SeekAndFind

Kind of surprises me coming from Epoch Times.


5 posted on 10/21/2021 9:20:41 AM PDT by Safrguns
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To: Safrguns

RE: Kind of surprises me coming from Epoch Times.

Why? What did you expect from Epoch Times?


6 posted on 10/21/2021 9:21:45 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: Safrguns

Trouble grasping sarcasm?


7 posted on 10/21/2021 9:25:00 AM PDT by hopespringseternal
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To: SeekAndFind

Here’s a few of these skeptics:

https://www.bitchute.com/video/j63mVCaDnu5s/


8 posted on 10/21/2021 9:25:43 AM PDT by Rennes Templar (Come back, President Trump.)
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To: TnTnTn

Ironic that Malone got long covid syndrome from covid. Then, to try to get well, he got both moderna vaccines.


9 posted on 10/21/2021 9:25:50 AM PDT by MarMema
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Who Are These COVID-19 Vaccine Skeptics and What Do They Believe?

We're American citizens who love our country and the freedom it affords. Our resistance to this medical fascism is a small effort compared to the millions of brave men & women who have sacrificed much, much more. Each of us will go as long as we can given life's circumstances, but to those of us who have carried the torch to this point I say thank you and well done!

10 posted on 10/21/2021 9:27:09 AM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: SeekAndFind

I can’t tell you how many times I listen to people say, Everyone should get the vaccine because it makes others safe. And I say, what about young people and people who have already got the vaccine. And they say, immunity does not last forever. And I say, don’t you understand that the vaccine works by giving your body small amounts of the virus (or reasonable facsimile of the virus) and so if the immunity that you get from the virus does not work, then the vaccine will not work. And they say, But we don’t know how long the immunity lasts.

It’s madding. They can’t see the logical error in their argument. They are so susceptible to propaganda that logic is lost to them. And they never get an opposing view. If someone talks to them with a view that MSNBC or CNN are not pushing they get very angry. They won’t hear it. Its quite an odd phenomenon.


11 posted on 10/21/2021 9:29:28 AM PDT by poinq
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To: SeekAndFind

The data state clearly that the vaccine does not work.

If it worked as advertised it would be all but eradicated in Israel. It is not.

The same is true in the US. States with the highest vaccination rates are no better off than states with the lowest.

You don’t have to be a “scientist” to see this. Just look at the data and numbers.

We cannot and will not vaccinate our way out of this “pandemic”. There will be a day of reckoning for the liars who have promoted this plan over therapeutics.

Ask yourself when a modern society with a top-tier medical system has promoted a “stay home and come to the hospital when you are wrecked” treatment plan for any disease.....

It is unprecedented. Even simple things that they do not dispute like Vitamin D levels are not pushed as part of early treatment.

This is criminal when you consider how much we are paying as taxpayers for this failed government response.


12 posted on 10/21/2021 9:30:20 AM PDT by volunbeer (Find the truth and accept it - anything else is delusional)
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To: SeekAndFind

You have the right to take or not take legal drugs.

No explanation for either choice is needed.


13 posted on 10/21/2021 9:30:20 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Let's Go Brandon!!!)
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To: MarMema
Ironic that Malone got long covid syndrome from covid. Then, to try to get well, he got both moderna vaccines.

Is that so?

It is odd... to vaccinate afterwards, where natural immunity should be in play. I wonder what his thought process was. Perhaps that a mild jolt would rejigger his system? Seems like a shot in the dark.

14 posted on 10/21/2021 9:32:12 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine (FJB/LGB (Let's Go, Brandon!))
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To: SeekAndFind

If you ever doubted that all major media are controlled this proves it. Not just news stations, but most magazines and journals as well bow to the evil totalitarians.


15 posted on 10/21/2021 9:34:24 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: SeekAndFind

Someone who against abortions.

https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2021/10/20/infanticide-in-creation-of-fetal-cell-line-used-for-covid-vaccine-testing/

What exactly happened in 1972 or 1973, in the Netherlands, where an infant girl was aborted, and her kidneys used to make a cell line that would be used, going forward, in the testing of vaccines?

That cell line is called HEK 293 (HEK stands for human embryonic kidney), and it has been used to test COVID vaccines.

I have already presented evidence for concluding the abortion involved removing the living infant from her mother’s womb, and taking her kidneys, which of course killed her.

This evidence rests on the realization that, in order to extract viable and useful kidney tissue, the baby had to have a functioning blood supply, which meant she was alive.


16 posted on 10/21/2021 9:35:31 AM PDT by roving
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To: Safrguns

Here’s the rule: If your friends are saying something you disagree with, make sure to keep reading... (Or listening, in the famous case when Rush endorsed Bill Clinton.)


17 posted on 10/21/2021 9:38:22 AM PDT by HeadOn (Love God. Lead your family. Be a man.)
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To: SeekAndFind
I can't tell you about them ... just me.

A vaccine is a dead or weakened cell of the target virus.

Your fearfully and wonderfully made (by God) immuno system sees the attack and actually CREATES an anti body to protect your also fearfully and wonderfully made (by God), body.


What is being touted as a vaccine is an INNOCULATION of I think so and I hope so.

And the many reports of vaxxed deaths prove it.

18 posted on 10/21/2021 9:39:10 AM PDT by knarf
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To: SeekAndFind

The Wife and I were Vaxxed Months ago (Moderna).

I apparently picked up the Kung Flu a couple of weeks ago and gave it to her. Thought I had a bad lingering head cold.


19 posted on 10/21/2021 9:48:23 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: SeekAndFind

>>> Why? What did you expect from Epoch Times?

Not sure... from the little bit that I could read from the article, sounds like it’s a hit piece on anti-vaxers.

the opening statement blames deaths on them.

I understand that ET is not necessarily agreeing with the author, but then why even give such an impression?

If sarcasm is involved, I must have missed it.

ET wont let me read unless I subscribe.

So whatever misconceptions I have about their stance remains.

It’s that simple.


20 posted on 10/21/2021 9:52:33 AM PDT by Safrguns
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