“But there was a problem. Skidmore based his estimate of vaccine-related deaths on the opinions of people who had no way of knowing that the illness or death their acquaintances suffered after vaccination had anything to do with the shot. “
Skidmore never claimed that he identified the cause/effect of shot and death. He documented inexplicable levels of death and said it should be investigated. The paper was pulled and they tried for months to debunk it, and finally released it because what he said and what he showed were accurate. Said another way, Skidmore was saying, “Where there’s smoke, we should look for fire” and the paper’s critics yelled “FALSE! YOU NEVER PROVED THE CAUSE OF THE FIRE!”
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.
That is a straw man.
He didn’t attempt to prove COD. He showed a serious, and deeply curious, anomaly exists.