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MSU Professor Mark Skidmore was exonerated by MSU; his landmark paper showing over 250,000 killed by the COVID vaccine is now back in the peer-reviewed literature
substack.com ^ | Oct 21, 2023 | Steve Kirsch

Posted on 10/25/2023 10:16:51 AM PDT by ransomnote

After a 7 month review by his university, Mark Skidmore, was exonerated of all charges and his new, improved paper was published in a more credible peer-reviewed journal.

 
Michigan State University Professor Mark Skidmore was exonerated of all ethics charges after a 7-month investigation. His paper was revised and was reinstated in the peer-reviewed literature. It revealed that over 250,000 people were killed by the COVID vaccine. Others have found similar numbers.

Executive summary

Mark Skidmore wrote a paper that showed that 217,000 Americans were killed in 2021 by the COVID vaccine.

The journal retracted the article and Mark’s university commenced a 7-month investigation into unethical behavior by Professor Skidmore.

Today, I’m pleased to announce that Professor Skidmore has been exonerated on all charges and his paper, with some helpful additions suggested by Dr. Susan Oliver (and her dog, Cindy), has now been published in another peer-reviewed journal.

The news on the investigation and the paper

See this press release that Mark sent me.

The press release was drafted by the Liberty Counsel who was instrumental in defending Mark in the investigation by Michigan State University. If you want to support their work, please donate here.

Bottom line: After a 7-month ethics investigation, Michigan State University found that Mark did nothing wrong!

Note: What this really means is that they tried for 7 months to find something they could nail him on, and they failed.

The new paper is now published in a peer-reviewed journal

COVID-19 Illness and Vaccination Experiences in Social Circles Affect COVID-19 Vaccination Decisions.

Here is an excerpt:

With these survey data, the total number of fatalities due to COVID-19 inoculation may be as high as 289,789 (95% CI: 229,319 – 344,319). The large difference in the possible number of fatalities due to COVID-19 vaccination that emerges from this survey and the available governmental data should be further investigated.

Let me translate that for you. Here’s the “plain English” version (my embellished interpretation):

“Our survey showed that there’s a good chance that 290,000 Americans (and maybe as many as 344,000) may have lost their lives due to taking the COVID vaccine and that’s in 2021 alone! That’s a lot of people and it’s a lot more than the US government claims. And for the record, this isn’t the only survey that found this. For example, the Rasmussen survey found a similar number of people were killed by the vaccine and the virus. So did other firms. So how come there isn’t an investigation to determine conclusively who is telling people the truth here? What’s wrong with you people? Instead of trying to censor the data, maybe it is high time we started talking about it so we can finally determine who is telling the truth and who is lying to you.”

Background

Here are the previous articles that I’ve written about Mark Skidmore’s paper.

If you have time to read only two articles, here are the top two I’d recommend:

  1. New peer-reviewed study: >217,000 Americans killed by the COVID vaccines in just the first year alone!

  2. It's time we hold these people accountable; let the lawsuits begin

The article, “What the "Defenders of Science" Miss About the Purpose of Scientific Peer-Review and the Open Dialogue: When You Censor or Support the Censorship of Dissident Voices, You Are In the Wrong” is an excellent summary also of how papers such as Mark’s, are retracted unethically.

Here’s an article recapping the whole thing by James Lyons-Weiler: Dr. Mark Skidmore Exonerated

 

Acknowledgment

Mark would like to thank Dr. Susan Oliver (and her dog Cindy) for all their helpful suggestions. Susan was nice enough to make a helpful video for Mark to ensure that even the most nit-picky peer-reviewer wouldn’t be able to find any errors.

Mark incorporated her suggestions into his revised paper to make it even stronger.

LA Times opinion

Why anti-vaxxers are pretending a flawed study on vacccine deaths has been vindicated

MICHAEL HILTZIK, business columnist for the LA Times, basically repurposed David Gorski’s new hit piece. It’s the same old arguments as they used before that the survey didn’t verify the deaths were caused by the vaccine. That’s right. The survey didn’t do that and never claimed to have done that.

What the survey did is say, “Whoa! We could have a MAJOR problem here; how do you explain all the carnage?”

Any objective scientist looking at that data would have to agree: this is smoke. Mark pointed out it was smoke.

Hiltzik should be writing about how nobody seems to want to investigate this signal.

So I decided to run my own survey. Nearly all my followers are anti-vaxxers; for most of their households, NOBODY in the household took the vaccine. So my respondents are biased; we’d expect there to be way fewer deaths in their households from the COVID vaccine because of so few vaccinations. Yet, we found around 1.5X more COVID vaccine deaths than COVID virus deaths in their households. That’s insane. We have a VERY deadly vaccine here. So how does Hiltzik explain that?

Summary 

So it’s now back in the scientific peer-reviewed literature that over 250,000 people were killed by the COVID vaccine in 2021 alone.

Other independent surveys (like Rasmussen and the outside surveys I’ve done) all are consistent with those numbers that the vaccine killed a comparable number to the virus. So that’s very validating of Mark’s numbers.

Remember that Rasmussen surveyed the general public. Over half the general public thinks the vaccines have killed nobody. So they are not reliably assessing vaccine caused deaths because they’ve been gaslit by the mainstream press and their doctors. So you should be VERY concerned that the Rasmussen survey found comparable numbers because it means that the reality is more likely than not that the the vaccine has killed more people than COVID.

So how are they going to explain the results which are verifiable and which can be replicated?

Answer: They will not. They will ignore it. Because they cannot explain it. Gaslighting people on this is too hard. That’s why they had to get the paper unethically retracted when it came out. Now that it’s out, they will ignore it. No fact checks, nothing. Silence.

Please help share the good news about Mark Skidmore with others. It’s important we let the world know that their governments have been lying to them.



TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Miscellaneous; Science
KEYWORDS: clotshot; covid; deathjab; markskidmore; michigan; michiganstate; vaccinedeaths; vaccines
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To: JSM_Liberty

If you can’t find that in the article your own self, you’re acting in bad faith and not worth my time.


21 posted on 10/25/2023 11:06:12 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: ransomnote
This paper has not, in fact, been reinstated in the peer-reviewed medical literature. It has been picked up by a fake journal that exists to give antivax/antiscience articles a similar appearance to real articles published in bona fide medical/scientific publications.

The "exoneration" of the author was that he was investigated for ethical violations related to human subject research. He argued that he used anonymous surveys and did not personally see any of the survey respondents and was able to convince the university that he did not violate ethical standards of human subject research. The university did not validate his paper or the questionable findings therein.

As for the highly surprising claim that he found "Estimated fatalities are 289,789 (95% CI: 229,319 – 344,319)", this is based on utterly NO medical or death certificate data.

He asked people whether they knew someone who was injured or died from Covid or someone who was injured or died from the vaccine. The responses to these questions were not validated with any objective data. During the pandemic, people are likely to say that any death that they know of is caused by Covid or vaccine because that is what is on their minds. But this is not equivalent to independent objective analysis of cause of death. He took the number of deaths that survey respondents reported as vaccine related and extrapolated them to the entire population. This is not scientifically valid methodology. The only way to determine cause of death is through medical record review, laboratory testing, and autopsy if indicated or the family requests.

The numbers of Covid deaths that were verified through laboratory testing, medical records, and/or autopsy were 350,831 in 2020, 416,893 in 2021, and 244,986 in 2022. The big drop between 2021 and 2022 is because of the vaccine.

Skidmore's article remains in retracted status. The LA times article linked in the OP explains this.

Death statistics for 2020-2022:

Mortality in the United States, 2020.

Mortality in the United States, 2021.

Provisional Mortality Data — United States, 2022.

For all three years, Covid is the third leading cause of death. Vaccines, on the other hand, cause so few deaths that it is difficult to find even one validated report of a vaccine death. Yet antivax rhetoric creators would have us believe that vaccines are so deadly that we should be witnessing people dropping dead constantly now. As of May, 2023, a total of 676,728,782 doses of vaccine had been administered to 81.4% of the US population (just slightly over 4 out of 5 people). COVID Data Tracker. With more than 81.4% of us vaccinated (the number has not been updated since May), if the vaccines are as dangerous as antivax professionals claim, why haven't more of us dropped dead?

22 posted on 10/25/2023 11:09:15 AM PDT by exDemMom (Dr. exDemMom, infectious disease and vaccines research specialist.)
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To: exDemMom
why haven't more of us dropped dead?

Why don't you go get a couple of boosters while we ponder that?

23 posted on 10/25/2023 11:17:17 AM PDT by BlackbirdSST (Trump or Bust! Long live the Republic.)
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To: ransomnote

Great. Now what about the football coach?


24 posted on 10/25/2023 11:53:43 AM PDT by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: exDemMom

You want MORE to drop dead?
So you seem to admit what we have been saying for a long time.
Let me put the question to exDemMom this way: What would you accept as clear and compelling evidence that the Covid “vaccinations” cause death?
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25 posted on 10/25/2023 11:53:44 AM PDT by Honest Nigerian
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To: jimwatx
I know 2 woman neither with cardiovascular issues who both died 6 months after being vaxxed of pulmonary embolisms. Neither of which were ever reported to VAERS or counted as a vaxx fatality.

Because it has to happen within 5-6 weeks from what I have been told but an event can cause death months and years later but not vaccines because they are special.

26 posted on 10/25/2023 12:06:27 PM PDT by frogjerk (More people have died trusting the government than not trusting the government.)
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To: piytar
but that’s anecdotal.

But you observed it so why doesn't it count?

27 posted on 10/25/2023 12:07:53 PM PDT by frogjerk (More people have died trusting the government than not trusting the government.)
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To: exDemMom
The numbers of Covid deaths that were verified through laboratory testing, medical records, and/or autopsy were 350,831 in 2020, 416,893 in 2021, and 244,986 in 2022. The big drop between 2021 and 2022 is because of the vaccine.

This has not been proven so you should not make this claim. This is what you believe to be true because of confirmation bias.

28 posted on 10/25/2023 12:09:28 PM PDT by frogjerk (More people have died trusting the government than not trusting the government.)
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To: exDemMom

“He asked people whether they knew someone who was injured or died from Covid or someone who was injured or died from the vaccine.”

His entire case is based on an opinion poll of people who think that someone they know was killed by the vaccine.


29 posted on 10/25/2023 12:19:01 PM PDT by JSM_Liberty
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To: JSM_Liberty


30 posted on 10/25/2023 12:22:25 PM PDT by Dick Bachert
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To: frogjerk
But you observed it so why doesn't it count?

It counts but is not statistically significant. Yeah, I know people can lie with statistics. After all, at least three things you can count on as being lies: anything a Democrat politician says, anything a politically funded "scientist" says using "statistics," and anything a lawyer says. (OK, the last one is a poke at some lawyer friends who lurk here. The truth is a good lawyer never lies. He/she does not have to -- they win without lying.)

But again it counts which is why I noted it. Also, they all (at least for now) recovered so not relevant to the "jab" kills point many make.

31 posted on 10/25/2023 12:29:05 PM PDT by piytar (Do NOT forget Ashli Babbit!)
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To: ransomnote

At least 250,000 people murdered and they are still trying to murder more. Those that took the vaccines and boosters are hoping they got a good batch and not one of those test batches that will clog up their arteries or lead to other deadly results.


32 posted on 10/25/2023 12:52:34 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: exDemMom
if the vaccines are as dangerous as antivax professionals claim, why haven't more of us dropped dead?

The number of unexplained deaths of people and stories seems unusually high lately as well as the number of times cause of death is never revealed.

33 posted on 10/25/2023 1:07:09 PM PDT by frogjerk (More people have died trusting the government than not trusting the government.)
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To: exDemMom

You have a good pharma shill technique. You download tons of fake information that would take me a day and a half to refute. I’m going to have to get pro-active about getting the truth out there because nobody, and I do mean NOBODY has time to wade through the INDUSTRY APPROVED FAUCI LEVEL propaganda you post. It’s the ‘narrative’ reposted on Free Republic because we were out here in the wild, choosing our own sources the government has not blessed. We now have ‘state doctors’ who tell us what the ‘TRUTH’ is and any non-state doctor who says different will be fired, threatened, stripped of certification or license to practice. Yes - that’s your group, turning America into the CCP one state-approved post at a time.
The legitimate process of peer-review has been purchased by FAUCI over his 40 plus years buying compliance, so that if frowns, the Lancet will pull an article and lie about it for years. So normal scientists can’t get ‘non-state approved’ opinions published. They finally put together their own peer review sources because they don’t want to be Faucists, they want to be doctors. And for this you sneer that they set the bar low for themselves; how DARE they escape state level censorship. Don’t they know who now owns medicine?! Don’t they know every American now has the same doctor, and he’s a FED?


34 posted on 10/25/2023 2:09:37 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: JSM_Liberty
His entire case is based on an opinion poll of people who think that someone they know was killed by the vaccine.

Exactly. If he would have stuck with his original hypothesis--that people's opinions about Covid and vaccines affect their decisions on whether to get vaccinated--it would have been an informative paper. But he went way beyond that into pure speculation. And that is why the paper was retracted.

35 posted on 10/25/2023 6:33:11 PM PDT by exDemMom (Dr. exDemMom, infectious disease and vaccines research specialist.)
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To: ransomnote
You download tons of fake information that would take me a day and a half to refute.

You are going to have to try harder than that. I get my information from the scientific/medical literature, the literature that scientists all over the world consult in order to inform and guide their own research.

How, may I ask, do you go about refuting a published research report?

Why don't you start with this paper, Genome sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 omicron variants in Delhi reveals alterations in immunogenic regions in spike glycoprotein? Explain to me how you are going to refute their experimental methods and analysis. Explain how the bioanalytic algorithms they used are faulty. Tell me how their analysis is wrong and why their protein diagrams (figures 3, 4, and 5) are flawed.

And then, after you successfully refute this paper (which I chose at random), go ahead and try to refute any of the references that I have previously provided.

I don't think you can do it.

The thing about science is that research papers are written so that other scientists can replicate the research. Unless you read the paper and do the experiments yourself, you can't even begin to refute it. And even if you had your own personal research laboratory and did the experiment yourself and got a different result, that would still not be a refutation. You would have to demonstrate (with experimental evidence and theoretical explanation) that the experiment they describe cannot have the result they reported. Can you do that?

36 posted on 10/25/2023 7:21:34 PM PDT by exDemMom (Dr. exDemMom, infectious disease and vaccines research specialist.)
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To: exDemMom
 
In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled MSU Professor Mark Skidmore was exonerated by MSU; his landmark paper showing over 250,000 killed by the COVID vaccine is now back in the peer-reviewed literature, exDemMom wrote:
This paper has not, in fact, been reinstated in the peer-reviewed medical literature. It has been picked up by a fake journal that exists to give antivax/antiscience articles a similar appearance to real articles published in bona fide medical/scientific publications.

The "exoneration" of the author was that he was investigated for ethical violations related to human subject research. He argued that he used anonymous surveys and did not personally see any of the survey respondents and was able to convince the university that he did not violate ethical standards of human subject research. The university did not validate his paper or the questionable findings therein.

As for the highly surprising claim that he found "Estimated fatalities are 289,789 (95% CI: 229,319 – 344,319)", this is based on utterly NO medical or death certificate data.

He asked people whether they knew someone who was injured or died from Covid or someone who was injured or died from the vaccine. The responses to these questions were not validated with any objective data. During the pandemic, people are likely to say that any death that they know of is caused by Covid or vaccine because that is what is on their minds. But this is not equivalent to independent objective analysis of cause of death. He took the number of deaths that survey respondents reported as vaccine related and extrapolated them to the entire population. This is not scientifically valid methodology. The only way to determine cause of death is through medical record review, laboratory testing, and autopsy if indicated or the family requests.

The numbers of Covid deaths that were verified through laboratory testing, medical records, and/or autopsy were 350,831 in 2020, 416,893 in 2021, and 244,986 in 2022. The big drop between 2021 and 2022 is because of the vaccine.

Skidmore's article remains in retracted status. The LA times article linked in the OP explains this.

Death statistics for 2020-2022:

Mortality in the United States, 2020.

Mortality in the United States, 2021.

Provisional Mortality Data — United States, 2022.

For all three years, Covid is the third leading cause of death. Vaccines, on the other hand, cause so few deaths that it is difficult to find even one validated report of a vaccine death. Yet antivax rhetoric creators would have us believe that vaccines are so deadly that we should be witnessing people dropping dead constantly now. As of May, 2023, a total of 676,728,782 doses of vaccine had been administered to 81.4% of the US population (just slightly over 4 out of 5 people). COVID Data Tracker. With more than 81.4% of us vaccinated (the number has not been updated since May), if the vaccines are as dangerous as antivax professionals claim, why haven't more of us dropped dead?

After I pointed out you post mountains of fake data and it would take me forever to get through it all and refute it, you challenged me to refute an entirely unrelated article from those links in your original posts.

Why?

Because all your links in your original posts are CDC. The world according to the filthy, lying, treasonous, CDC. You know, the CDC that determined a person 'with Covid' could be declared to have died 'OF Covid.' That CDC.

The CDC that used an invalid PCR test to inaccurately diagnose 'COVID'. Based on their malevolence, we don't know what  mix of illnesses and medical malpractice (COvid Protocol) the patients died of.

The CDC and its shill now declare they and they alone determine what a 'real' journal is. For the rest of us, they are referring to 'controlled media.' But, scientists were reviewing each others work before the CDC launched its most recent bid to become the CDC, and so real scientists all across the world are doing peer reviews on research that exposes the CDC's lies.

Your absolute reliance on the CDC's medical regime is what I mean when I pointed to your mountains of fake data. For your arguments to work, they must take everything the CDC said as law and fact and disregard all other sources, even after the CDC has been caught lying time and time again.

37 posted on 10/25/2023 7:33:19 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: ransomnote
After I pointed out you post mountains of fake data and it would take me forever to get through it all and refute it, you challenged me to refute an entirely unrelated article from those links in your original posts.

The reason that I posted a single article and invited you to refute it was to demonstrate that refuting bona fide scientific data is beyond your ability. You can't even begin to refute that article, can you?

Because all your links in your original posts are CDC. The world according to the filthy, lying, treasonous, CDC. You know, the CDC that determined a person 'with Covid' could be declared to have died 'OF Covid.' That CDC.

Oh, I get it. If the information comes from the scientific community, you automatically reject it as fake. You cannot provide any actual evidence that ANY article or webpage I linked is false, can you?

The CDC is more of a clearinghouse for scientific information than anything else. The job of the CDC is to collect medical/scientific information from all over the country, analyze it, and publish it so that the public can access it. It is silly to expect the CDC to change its practices because some charlatans used word play to try to convince their marks that people who died of Covid really just spontaneously died and Covid was blamed.

I'll take this opportunity to mention that CDC collects cause of death data on every single person who dies in the US. If there is a death certificate, the CDC has that information.

The CDC that used an invalid PCR test to inaccurately diagnose 'COVID'.

Oh, my, do you have even a clue of how PCR works? Nucleic acid sequences are extremely specific not just to the species but even to the individual. If I want to design a PCR test to detect, for example, the XBB.1.9.1 variant of SARS-CoV-2 that is currently in circulation, I can use Primer-BLAST to design a primer set that will ONLY detect that variant and no other. On the other hand, if I want to detect SARS-CoV-2 and not other coronaviruses, I can design a PCR primer set to do that. I can also design a primer set to detect coronaviruses in general. PCR is a very good and specific tool. It cannot show a positive result if the virus genome is not present, because there is nothing for the primers to attach to.

I'm not sure you can perceive the humor in trying to convince a molecular biologist, someone who has years of experience designing PCR assays, that it is possible for a PCR test to be bogus. But I *am* amused.

The CDC and its shill now declare they and they alone determine what a 'real' journal is.

Um, no. The legitimacy and quality of medical and scientific journals is determined by the worldwide scientific and medical communities, not the CDC. The CDC gets information and guidance from us, not the other way around. If you actually look at and try to read any of the references that I have linked, you will see that they are written by scientists from all over the world who work in a variety of public and private sector organizations. While CDC scientists are encouraged to publish their work, their contributions to the scientific literature are swamped by input from the worldwide scientific community. When I link to a CDC source, unless it is an article written by CDC scientists, none of the information at the source originates from the CDC.

What you have basically told me is that if the information I provide comes from the scientific community, you reject it out of hand. You have no evidence to refute anything. You don't have the scientific background to even know how one would refute anything. And to refute even a single scientific paper, you need to provide both the theoretical background and empiric evidence of why and how the paper is wrong. I can do that with antivax rhetoric, but can you do that with real science?

38 posted on 10/26/2023 7:55:20 AM PDT by exDemMom (Dr. exDemMom, infectious disease and vaccines research specialist.)
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To: exDemMom; SecAmndmt; datura; Fractal Trader; grey_whiskers; metmom; Jane Long; tatown; ...
In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled MSU Professor Mark Skidmore was exonerated by MSU; his landmark paper showing over 250,000 killed by the COVID vaccine is now back in the peer-reviewed literature, exDemMom wrote:
After I pointed out you post mountains of fake data and it would take me forever to get through it all and refute it, you challenged me to refute an entirely unrelated article from those links in your original posts.

The reason that I posted a single article and invited you to refute it was to demonstrate that refuting bona fide scientific data is beyond your ability. You can't even begin to refute that article, can you?

Who would help you deflect from the truth of the article featured in this thread? It's about whether a scientific paper about the Covid vaccine was reinstated or not (peer reviewed literature). Instead, you posted an unrelated medical study for which all the sources/funding and management were Indian, while your original post was 100% dependent on the unverified word of the CDC. (Just reading something from the CDC and assuming it's true doesn't make it 'science'). You act like you are a CDC mouthpiece.

Because all your links in your original posts are CDC. The world according to the filthy, lying, treasonous, CDC. You know, the CDC that determined a person 'with Covid' could be declared to have died 'OF Covid.' That CDC.

Oh, I get it. If the information comes from the scientific community, you automatically reject it as fake.

Obviously not. I post information from the scientific community often throughout the week. What I don't do is protect the CDC/NIH/FDA from liability for their medical crimes by refusing 'legitimacy' to any and all research they didn't 'bless, condone or fund.' Science used to be 'open' but now the medical regime has captured it and distributes the medical equivalent to the old Soviet 'PRAVDA'.

You cannot provide any actual evidence that ANY article or webpage I linked is false, can you?

As I said, I am not going to help you change the subject to something you are less defensive about. The problem is medical censorship, shills like you, and the dismissal of all content that the CDC/NIH/FDA deems 'vebotten' for people to know.

The CDC is more of a clearinghouse for scientific information than anything else.

False. Look a the last pandemic the CDC directed. They never acted like a clearinghouse.There were treatments for Covid in use by several doctors, and there still are because they work, but the CDC never told a soul. Researchers outside the CDC/NIH/FDA fold demonstrated supplements that work, cut risk of illness and death etc. and the CDC kept that information to itself and instead created a Covid Protocol completely lacking in that essentional information. The CDC should have been on TV/Radio telling people about supplements that help. The CDC is a regime, not a 'clearinghouse'.

The job of the CDC is to collect medical/scientific information from all over the country, analyze it, and publish it so that the public can access it.

So why were they driving the pandemic like a management team and denying the existence of all treatments/drugs that we successfully saving lives, when doctors outside the fold were successfully treating patients and saving lives with protocols they designed themselves?

It is silly to expect the CDC to change its practices because some charlatans used word play to try to convince their marks that people who died of Covid really just spontaneously died and Covid was blamed.

Where were you during the pandemic? There were press conferences about this. If a person died x number of days after having a positive Covid test, regardless of the circumstances of their death, if they died it was automatically 'Covid'. A reporter asked, 'what about a motorcycle accident' and the CDC rep said it would be counted as Covid, but to recall the number of instances like the motorcycle accident would be small. There have been many complaints from doctors and coroners about CDC 'rules' unique for the handling of deaths during the pandemic. The CDC incentivized Covid death reporting in hospitals. How can you have such hubris and know so little?

I'll take this opportunity to mention that CDC collects cause of death data on every single person who dies in the US. If there is a death certificate, the CDC has that information.

Yes. That is why they were resistant to admitting that many of the cases of 'died of Covid' were not actual Covid deaths. They have had to admit since then that their numbers were too large.

Do you recall that the CDC failed to manage basic data collection (from hospitals) so Trump removed the collation of incoming data from hospitals to a 3rd party?

The hospitals traditionally report proportion of all tests which were positive. When a few hospitals in FL started reporting 'number of positive tests' directly (no proportion) it made it look like 100% of all persons tested were positive (as if the virus was becoming more virulent). This boosted overall stats - hey look, the Plandemic is getting worse. A reporter skimmed the report and noted some numbers didn't look right because they seemed to reporting that 100% of all tests administered by the hospital that week were positive for Covid. When contacted, the hospital said that test results were a mix of positive/negative so the data can't be 100% positive results. The CDC hadn't even performed the most basic review of incoming data - they just blindly assimilated it and reported the result. When the CDC's latest lack of scientific competency was exposed, Trump moved data collation to a 3rd party that could be expected to at least skim incoming data for validity. The left went wild, yelling that Trump was 'politicizing' the pandemic.

The CDC that used an invalid PCR test to inaccurately diagnose 'COVID'.

Oh, my, do you have even a clue of how PCR works?

Yes. Based on your lame lecture which follows, I understand it better than you do and you haven't done the basic research needed to know why your 'lecture' is false and misleading. And once again, you don't know of CDC admissions that rule the PCR they used through the pandemic as worthless.

Nucleic acid sequences are extremely specific not just to the species but even to the individual. If I want to design a PCR test to detect, for example, the XBB.1.9.1 variant of SARS-CoV-2 that is currently in circulation, I can use Primer-BLAST to design a primer set that will ONLY detect that variant and no other. On the other hand, if I want to detect SARS-CoV-2 and not other coronaviruses, I can design a PCR primer set to do that. I can also design a primer set to detect coronaviruses in general.

There are major problems in your thoroughly uneducated post.

The PCR was designed as a diagnostic tool to detect materials present in samples in quantities so small that they would ordinarily be missed. According to the inventor, Kary Mullis, it amplifies tiny amounts of material so you can study it. Mullis also dismissed outright the idea that the PCR could ever diagnose any illness, because detecting tiny amounts of anything in a sample doesn't mean the person actually is ill with disease. It may be the person was exposed and the immune system fought off the illness so they never became ill with it. It could be they were ill a month ago and tiny amounts of that material are still in their samples. So Mullis said it was not capable of diagnosis as 'detecting' tiny amounts of anything could not indicate presence of disease. The PCR was an assay, and its name when invented includes 'assay' in the title, but the CDC knew all this and claimed it was a medical diagnostic test.

You make a big deal about how specific the PCR assay is, but you fail to mention that the CDC said it didn't base the PCR on the isolated Covid virus because it was 'unavailable' at the time, but instead used a 'related Corona Virus'. So much for how 'specific' the PCR is.

Pause to consider, the CDC said the whole reason we had to have lockdowns was because Covid was 'novel' and our immune systems had never seen it before, so they make a test out of an assay using a 'related corona virus'. How do we know if the PCR detected that related corona virus, and therefore the person was diagnosed as Covid and denied all treatments? How do we know how many other related corona viruses were 'detected' by the assay, declared Covid, and counted as a raging pandemic? What proportion, if any, were ever Corona Virus?

You also seem ignorant of the fact that the PCR assay loses validity when it's run at excessively high cycle rates because the nucleic acid chains break and become fragments too small for use (not unique). Fauci is on video saying dismissively, "Well at 40 cycles all you have left are just nucleic acid 'building blocks.'" Do  you want to guess the cycle rate often in use during the pandemic? 40 cycles. Then when the vaccine came out, samples from the vaccinated versus unvaccinated were to be run at different cycle rates.

PCR is a very good and specific tool. It cannot show a positive result if the virus genome is not present, because there is nothing for the primers to attach to.

The PCR assay is a laboratory tool, not a medically valid diagnostic test. Whether or not it shows a positive result is meaningless in terms of whether a person actually has the disease. The WHO had several versions of the PCR and one of them used part of the human genome as their primer set.

I posted  a video of the President of Tanzania revealing that when his nation was given PCR tests to use in the pandemic, he instructed his medical people to test it on a variety of materials. His staff found fruit that tested positive, motor oil that tested 'inconclusive' and other similar data. He exposed the use of the PCR as invalid. School children were able to get orange juice to test positive, elsewhere Spanish water tested positive. You may say these materials had strands of the 'related corona-virus' (NOT COVID) but you cant diagnose fruit or orange juice as actually having Covid.

I just watched a video of an at-home test demonstrating how to use chemicals to force a positive Covid test so you can stay home from work.

From your post #22

"The numbers of Covid deaths that were verified through laboratory testing, medical records, and/or autopsy were 350,831 in 2020, 416,893 in 2021, and 244,986 in 2022. The big drop between 2021 and 2022 is because of the vaccine."

Those stats are worthless, we don't know what collection or 'related coronaviruses' patients had, the # of cycles at which the PCR'tests' were analyzed, or what proportion of patients would have been saved had people not been denied all treatment, told to go home until they needed hospitalization, given Remdesivir and put on ventillators. But most importantly, the 'laboratory testing' was the PCR assay, not a diagnostic tool.

I'm not sure you can perceive the humor in trying to convince a molecular biologist, someone who has years of experience designing PCR assays, that it is possible for a PCR test to be bogus. But I *am* amused.

I think this must mean you do not have the training you claim to have, or you are intentionally lying through your teeth. Perhaps its that you work with the PCR and refuse to read non CDC  content. Based on your condescension, I'd say you know you are running interference (you're lying).

The CDC and its shills now declare they and they alone determine what a 'real' journal is.

Um, no. The legitimacy and quality of medical and scientific journals is determined by the worldwide scientific and medical communities, not the CDC.

You keep forgetting the other elements of the troika. The NIH has distributed something like 40 Billion dollars (at least) to researches and has the power to continue or end funding for labs worldwide. Anthony Fauci was in charge of distributing such funds for 40+ years - there's a reason why he became the highest paid employee in the federal government. He and others in our medical regime spent decades gaining extreme levels of control and are able to force the Lancet to publish lies on command.

World-wide researchers were reporting treatments that worked and research of interest and the CDC denied them all and the medical regime instilled extreme levels of censorship so that the journals refuse to publish anything that would contradict the 'narrative'.

The CDC gets information and guidance from us, not the other way around.

Welp, that's not what happened in America during the pandemic. You must not have been here.

If you actually look at and try to read any of the references that I have linked, you will see that they are written by scientists from all over the world who work in a variety of public and private sector organizations. While CDC scientists are encouraged to publish their work, their contributions to the scientific literature are swamped by input from the worldwide scientific community. When I link to a CDC source, unless it is an article written by CDC scientists, none of the information at the source originates from the CDC.

You originally linked content from the CDC's own website. I hope they bother to read what they publish but there's no safe bet there. The CDC is a gate keeper - if the info doesn't support their bad decision making and manipulation, it won't be posted regardless of where it originated in the world. You then posted unrelated research from India and published in PubMed.

What you have basically told me is that if the information I provide comes from the scientific community, you reject it out of hand.

False. I've said that the CDC/FDA/NIH worked together as gatekeepers and censorship prevents research that detracts from the 'narrative' (for example, there are safe treatments that work = Ivermectin etc.), then it can't appear in the controlled peer review publishers. I've also said that the research paper which is the topic of this thread was legitimately re-instated.

You have no evidence to refute anything.

INteresting. You've changed the subject entirely by now. I said the paper re the Covid vax was reinstated in a legitimate peer reviewed journal, you said the journal was by no means legitmate. You provided me with unrelated (REALLY unrelated) research from India and dared me to refute it. WHY.WOULD.I.BOTHER? You've left the topic and thrown a variant research paper at me and commanded me to 'FETCH!'  As I am beginning to think you're not American, know that my 'fetch' example means you are throwing a stick for me to go chase as if I were a dog. Not interested.

You don't have the scientific background to even know how one would refute anything.

You don't know what my scientific background is, obviously, and you are wrong on critical scientific counts, but still the problem remains, why would I chase the stick you just threw and told me to fetch? This conversation isn't about Indian researchers  working to idenfity a Covid variant. You are trying to draw every ounce of attention from the article of this thread - the research re the Covid vax was good/correct.  I see no reason to let you waste my time.

And to refute even a single scientific paper, you need to provide both the theoretical background and empiric evidence of why and how the paper is wrong.

I'm still not going to chase the stupid stick!

I can do that with antivax rhetoric, but can you do that with real science?

You failed with what you call 'antivax rhetoric' and 'real science'. Of this you remain blissfully, and entirely, unaware.


39 posted on 10/26/2023 12:58:12 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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And after The Lancet nuked any credibility that peer reviewed papers had, we should trust peer review now?


40 posted on 10/26/2023 1:11:49 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.)
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