Dr Naomi Wolf is following in Nicki Minaj's footsteps and claiming that vaccines cause swollen testicles. Nice try, but I debunked it over a year ago:https://t.co/7sbidEAY7Apic.twitter.com/Q0hBg2jYhX
The World Council for Health (WCH) is in no way what it sounds like, which is of course exactly the point. The organization’s website is set up to look like a public health nonprofit: a clean layout, a cheery little logo—a graphic of a hand inside an apple, a heart inlay inside the hand—and a bland mission statement, which proclaims that the group is “a worldwide coalition of health-focused organizations and civil society groups that seek to broaden public health knowledge and sense-making through science and shared wisdom.” There’s also a sprinkling of stock photos, prominently featuring Black women and children.
In reality, the WCH is an umbrella group for purveyors of COVID misinformation. Its dozens of large and small “coalition partners,” among which are groups that are regularly in the headlines and ones working behind the scenes, are based all over the world. They share one thing: a devotion to casting doubt on COVID vaccines and promoting discredited treatments for the disease. In the past few months, the WCH has declared that COVID vaccines are “dangerous and ineffective,” released a nonsense guide to “spike protein detox” after vaccination (premised on the completely false idea that the vaccine somehow looses dangerous spike proteins in the body), misleadingly claimed that COVID vaccination is leading to increased heart issues in both adults and children, and called on its followers to be “the hands and feet of this global coalition” and deliver a petition against the vaccines to their local elected officials.
The most important announcement of my life and career so far. Please watch, listen and share with family and friends. I reached these sobering conclusions reluctantly. To read the free full open access peer reviewed medical journal articles visit https://t.co/9IMbUlAAQ9pic.twitter.com/sYxJJjeh9S
Aseem Malhotra yesterday held a press conference calling for a halt to covid vaccinations, hosted by the "World Council for Health" – a group of quacks, 5G conspiracy theorists and anti-vaxxers. 🤦♂️
He also confirmed that anti-vax disinformation group HART helped him write his paper, saying he asked Clare [Craig] and HART to estimate how many people they think would need to be vaccinated to prevent one covid death.
He also confirmed that anti-vax disinformation group HART helped him write his paper, saying he asked Clare [Craig] and HART to estimate how many people they think would need to be vaccinated to prevent one covid death.
Later on Malhotra cited HART again, saying "the HART group are very good". Er .. no.
"They've looked at ambulance data, and after the vaccine rollout we found there were an extra 14,000 out of hospital cardiac arrests that are unexplained."
HART aren't the only anti-vax group Malhotra name dropped. He said "I spoke to [RFK Jr] for the very first time yesterday. He called me and was congratulating me on the paper."
RFK Jr is founder of Children's Health Defense, which campaigns against routine childhood vaccines. pic.twitter.com/41T2r3XUKI
After Malhotra finished, Ryan Cole made even wilder claims about covid vaccines, and Tess Lawrie wrapped up by claiming "there's no longer any doubt among independent experts who have no conflicts of interest that what are called covid-19 vaccines are neither safe nor effective". pic.twitter.com/tAK3t47HAd
Things got really wild in the Q&A session though. Responding to a question from unemployed actor John Bowe, Ryan Cole suggested the only reason vaccinated people aren't all dying is because most of us got "duds" due to "poor manufacturing".
Responding to a question from former Brexit Party MEP James Wells, who seems to have setup the press conference, Malhotra also said he thinks "big pharma" is funding studies linking excess cardiac deaths to covid to divert attention away from their vaccines. 🤨 pic.twitter.com/7yE3ZInFnm
I missed Aseem Malhotra’s big reveal yesterday. I know you still follow me Aseem so I hope you see this. Please know, what you’re saying isn’t just whipping up your base and putting you on TV, it is having real, awful effects on real people
You mentioned a PM that showed two severely narrowed coronary arteries. You are a cardiologist. You know better than anyone that a man in his 70s can very commonly have severe asymptomatic coronary disease. There is no evidence the vaccine causes coronary atherosclerosis
People who have lost loved ones, like my mother in law, sadly like humans have done forever, take a long time to come to terms with grief. You introducing the idea that they were killed by a vaccine without any proof is so unbelievably disappointing.
You talked about the terrible delay in an ambulance for your dad, I was 100% behind you. Likewise your involvement in movements concerning conservative medicine or sugar reduction. But for a cardiologist to spread this lie is inexcusable. Please think about grieving relatives.
3/n At the outset, the paper is a fascinating case study in scientific publication. The journal that this COVID-19 vaccine paper is published in is called the Journal of Insulin Resistance, and has since 2016 published a total of 32 things (31 if you don't include a correction)
5/n All of this aside , the paper itself is a very strange piece of writing. The author describes it as a "narrative review", but as a single-author article that has no methodology that I could find, it is more accurately described as an opinion piece
7/n This is then followed by a complete misrepresentation of absolute vs relative risks for vaccines. I've explained why this is inappropriate before https://t.co/9rv55Eahehpic.twitter.com/nlCaqRmrOm
9/n In the UK, people who were most at risk were vaccinated first, meaning that "vaccinated" is a good proxy for extremely high-risk individuals. You have to correct for this difference in observational analyses, but the author does not
I would argue that the calls for retraction and/or major corrections of this study have nothing to do with censorship and everything to do with glaring flaws
13/n While the US did give many vaccines prior to COVID-19, it is well-established that media coverage impacts these reporting systems, in particular VAERS. There's no question that COVID-19 vaccines have been discussed FAR more than any previous ones! https://t.co/8KPlGrnADq
15/n I could go on, but at this point we're just rehashing the same arguments anyway. The author has been very public about how he feels on the subject of COVID-19 vaccines for some time – that is, of course, his right pic.twitter.com/AKgxvvtk3O
17/n If this was a robust, well-done systematic review, with careful consideration of the totality of evidence, it might be helpful, but as an opinion piece citing the author's favourite studies and anonymous online blogs it doesn't really tell us much
And to think, it took me three years of undergraduate stats, a 2-year masters and years of working professionally in statistics to become fluent in this sort of thing! Must've been a very productive couple of days
