This is an important post. This may be one of the most important posts I’ve made so far.
It shows that the tide is turning our way: a former advocate of the vaccine trusted by millions of people has now realized he’s been deceived and he’s not happy about it at all.
Overview
This is a very important milestone: a prominent respected figure who has been supporting the vaccine has finally realized he’s been misled.
Dr. John Campbell has been a source of trusted medical information for millions of people throughout the pandemic.
Campbell has been doing YouTube videos since before the pandemic, but rose to fame during the pandemic for his thoughtful videos.
His videos have been viewed over 400 million times and he has over 2 million subscribers.
Historically, he’s been a reliable supporter of the safe and effective vaccine story.
In November of 2021, Campbell took a closer look at ivermectin and was impressed by the evidence. This led Wikipedia to label him a spreader of misinformation.
On March 9, Campbell published a video entitled “The Pfizer documents” where he goes through one of the released documents in detail: the ADVERSE EVENTS OF SPECIAL INTEREST (AESI) document (aka the “5.3.6 document”).
As of March 11, that video now has 1.4M views.
He is not happy with the lack of transparency. He is not happy with the safety signals disclosed in this document. Not happy at all. He concludes “This has just destroyed trust in authority” (watch @21:55).
Thus, in the minds of the mainstream media, Dr. Campbell has transitioned from a respected health expert to a misinformation spreader that should be ignored.
Paradoxically, YouTube didn’t remove the video or ban Dr. Campbell for life like they would normally do. I am mystified by this.
Fact checking organization Health Feedback called Campbell’s video misinformation saying that correlation isn’t causality. However, the same fact checkers could not explain why the reporting rates were elevated over normal. If it wasn’t the vaccine, what caused all these events? And why were they related to the dose number if there was no causality?
Campbell of course was right. The Pfizer report does destroy trust in the government authorities who are supposed to be protecting us and disclosing adverse events. But if he was really paying attention (which many people weren’t due to blind trust in the institutions), the safety signals associated with the COVID vaccines have been available since January 2021. In my case, I figured this out 10 months ago and people thought I was crazy at the time. It is nice that Dr. Campbell has finally realized we were right all along. This puts Dr. Campbell on the right side of history. A bit late to discover the truth, but it still puts him years ahead of most all his peers.
Hopefully, this will be a turning point and other critical thinkers will also realize they’ve been fooled and will follow his lead and speak out publicly just as Dr. Campbell has courageously done.
A short history of how I became an “anti-vaxxer”
Back in early May 2021, I realized that the anecdotal reports of adverse events from my friends weren’t consistent with the government claims of a “safe and effective vaccine.”
I dug into the VAERS system and confirmed my hypothesis. There was no doubt at that point in my mind. There was no other explanation that could have caused the enormous numbers of events in VAERS. I confirmed this with individual reports from physicians who also had never seen as many (and as varied) a list of adverse events from any previous vaccine.
And then, on May 26, I was on a CCCA call where Dr. Byram Bridle presented, for the very first time in a public forum, the Pfizer COVID vaccine biodistribution data he obtained from the Japanese government.
At the time, it was instantly clear to me that we now had the key missing piece: a plausible mechanism of action that could explain the huge number and variety of adverse event reports. A plausible mechanism of action is a key criteria to establish causality using the Bradford-Hill criteria.
Right after I got off the CCCA call, I warned some friends who were over at our house that the vaccines weren’t as safe as the government was saying and we shouldn’t trust their assurances. They are lying to us.
I later learned that when I left, all of them asked my wife, “Is Steve OK?” They were all certain that I had completely lost it mentally.
I incorporated the biodistribution data into the 285-page TrialSiteNews article I had published the day before entitled “Should you get vaccinated?”
Fast forward to the present
Yesterday, on March 9, Campbell published a video entitled “The Pfizer documents” where he goes through just one of the 150 released Pfizer documents in detail: the ADVERSE EVENTS OF SPECIAL INTEREST (AESI) document (aka the “5.3.6 document”).
One of the most disturbing findings was that the number of doses shipped was redacted from the safety document (the (b) (4) is a FOIA redaction code that means “Trade secrets and commercial or financial information obtained from a person and privileged or confidential.”). Wow. That’s a secret?!?! Even if we knew the number shipped, we still wouldn’t know the number of doses actually administered which we’d need to calculate the safety profile of the drug.
Dr. Campbell correctly points out that there is no way to assess safety if you don’t know what the denominator is.
He wonders out loud, why on earth would they redact that? It can’t be proprietary.
Indeed, the only reason you’d redact such a number is if you are trying to hide something.