Prof. Peter C Gøtzsche
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Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine: “It is dystopian for the government to give Pfizer billions, mandate Americans to take its product, prohibit Americans from suing for harm, but yet refuse to let Americans see the data underlying its licensure.”
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Open letter from BMJ to Facebook about inappropriate censoring of serious data integrity issues in Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine trial and totally incompetent so-called fact check. This is very serious. Big Tech is destroying open debate and our democracies.
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“An anti-vaxxer is a person who opposes the use of some or all vaccines, regulations mandating vaccination, or usually both.” According to a US dictionary (Merriam-Webster), Denmark is a nation of antivaxxers. We stopped using the AZ covid vaccine. It was too harmful.
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Evidence does not justify mandatory vaccines - everyone should have the right to informed choice. BMJ rapid response:
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Sweden did the right thing by avoiding lockdowns and face masks. Excess mortality was among the lowest in the world (see my tweet from 24 March). This was confirmed in the best such study, just published two days ago:
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Djokovic affair: Australia’s deportation of world number one tennis player, on the day before the Australian Open, was unprecedented and unwarranted. It is a dangerous and shameful rise of authoritarianism and small-mindedness in Australia.
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mRNA vaccines produce foreign proteins that the body’s immune system reacts against (miscoding). We don’t know what the consequence of this is. This should have been studied before the vaccines were approved.
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Should I get chemotherapy for cancer? Probably not. Most patients accept chemotherapy, likely because they think that if it wasn’t worthwhile, it wouldn’t be offered. This is a mistake. In over 90% of cases, the effect is marginal, which the harms aren’t
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Children should not be vaccinated against COVID-19. Harms outweighed benefits in Pfizer trial of 12-15- year-olds, and ethically, one cannot defend to harm people through vaccination to benefit others. See Peter Doshi’s testimony at FDA hearing:
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FDA refuses to add serious harms of the mRNA COVID vaccines on the label, including sudden death after myocarditis, which is well documented, with a death rate of 1-2 per 200 cases . See article about FDA breaking their own rules
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Horrible YouTube censorship related to COVID-19. I was interviewed for an hour about organised crime in psychiatry and the drug industry and spoke about COVID-19 for 5 minutes. YouTube instantly eliminated the whole interview. See what they removed:
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100% immunity? Yes, but only for big pharma that brings corona vaccines to the market. Our foolish politicians have given them immunity so that they will not be held accountable for vaccine harms. Politicians commit the same errors again and again and ignore lessons from history.
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COVID-19. More evidence that Sweden, which did not have lockdowns like the rest of the western world, did surprisingly well We all need to learn from this.
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Serious harms of the COVID-19 vaccines, preprint of systematic review: . Severe harms common after boosters. Balance benefits/harms becomes negative in low-risk groups such as children and people who have already acquired natural immunity.
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Statins for primary prevention? No thanks. In trials of 3.5-6 years duration, statins only postponed death by a median of 3 days. And 25-50% stop within 6-12 months, mainly because of adverse effects. And statins cause diabetes
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COVID-19. "If you live life as if there are no respiratory viruses, you'll sometimes get sick, and you'll live your life. If you live your life to avoid all respiratory viruses, you'll sometimes get sick, and you'll have let your life pass unlived." Tweet from
@DrJBhattacharya
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The biggest scandal in healthcare: Prescription drugs are the leading cause of death. And psychiatric drugs are the third leading cause of death. Depression drugs are the major killer. See my article:
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“Trust me, I’m a doctor.” Or perhaps you shouldn’t, as prescription drugs are the third leading cause of death, after heart disease and cancer. Look up the evidence yourself and take as little drugs as possible. Very few drugs are indispensable.
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Face masks don’t work . Yet, many people claim they work. Perhaps they put them in the wrong place? There are none so blind as those who WILL NOT SEE. Forsker is Danish for researcher. Cartoon by Rasmus Sand Høyer.
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Pfizer fooled the world again. Seriously misleading marketing of Paxlovid against COVID-19 earned the company billions while FDA showed how totally corrupt they are. The drug should virtually never be used, see:
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Governments invested heavily in developing and buying COVID-19 vaccines but if you want to analyse the manipulated data for Pfizer’s trial, you will have to wait until May 2025 before you can even request them from Pfizer . Is this the world we want?
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”Trust me, I’m a doctor.” Perhaps not, as prescription drugs are the third leading cause of death, and doctors get their information from the drug industry. Trust yourself, and look up the evidence yourself. And exercise.
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Critics say Cochrane researchers ignored real world data when they did not find an effect of face masks. They did the right thing. Real world data is a euphemism for unreliable observational data. To mandate mask use was a public health failure.
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Systematic review of serious harms of the COVID-19 vaccines just published on our website, as medical journals were not interested, which we fail to understand. Free access: Improved since our preprint on MedRiv.
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UK COVID-19 policies: Sweden was coping well with the pandemic despite keeping schools, pubs and restaurants open. Hancock was enraged by what he called the 'f*****g Sweden argument' and told his aides to produce three or four points of why Sweden is wrong
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Covid-19 vaccines: Science by press release, on the basis of interim or ad hoc analyses, no access to the data. Remember the Tamiflu and remdesivir scandals. Request to see the data, also on harms, before you decide about a covid-19 vaccination.
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Harvard’s Latest Act of Shame (and YouTube’s, too). See our 2-page account of the firing of
@martinkulldorff
who did everything right, and YouTube’s censorship of my vaccine interview with
@StabellBenn
, which was scientifically entirely correct.
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Can you imagine a cardiologist saying, “There is something wrong with your heart, so you need to take a drug for life,” when there is no evidence that it is so? Most psychiatrists tell their depressed patients they have a serotonin deficiency. This is medical fraud.
#psychiatry
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The Coronavirus mass panic is not justified. USA not only got the virus from China but has also imported Chinese style censorship. We need open debate. There is no evidence for our draconian measures, which cause a lot of harm, incl. increasing suicides.
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In New York State, a bill is under way prohibiting children to go to school unless vaccinated against HPV. But HPV does not spread in the classroom. There seems to be no limit to the insanity in public health. Or, do we just see the result of corruption?
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When psychiatrists don’t lie about a chemical imbalance causing depression, they often say the cause is unknown. Wrong. People get depressed because they have depressing lives. Job loss, relationship breakdown and physical illness are strong predictors
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WHO 2023 guidelines: “a strong recommendation for mask use in community settings in higher risk situations” It is sad that the WHO does not respect the randomised trial evidence that suggests that masks have no effect. See my previous tweet from today.
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Corona: please stop the vitriolic attacks on those scientists who do not share the majority view. Shaming, bullying and censorship is detrimental to scientific progress. See and . True progress usually comes from a tiny minority.
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Doctors have affected one generation with barbiturates, another with benzos, a third with depression pills and now we see an epidemic of amphetamines for the bogus diagnosis, ADHD. And psychiatrists talk about psychedelics again. Madness. Why don’t we learn from history?
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"I think that the non-specific effect of Sars-Cov2 is the lockdown of brains." Eugenio Florean, Italy, wrote this to me today. Fear and other emotions, and the kick politicians get by dominating others, make some people forget they have more than 1 kg of brain. Please use it!
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One definition of madness is doing the same thing again and again expecting a different result. Psychiatrists increase the dose, change to other drugs or use more than one drug of the same type. When drugs don’t work, they should be stopped. And psychiatrists should be stopped.
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COVID-19: No additional effect of major lockdowns compared to minor ones; a comparison of regions in 10 countries. It seems we are destroying our societies and economies for no good reason.
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Deplorable censorhip at The Lancet . Lancet rejected a highly relevant paper that shows earlier papers denying the possibility of a lab leak for COVID-19 to be wrong and using nonsense arguments, too.
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COVID-19 vaccine passports are not evidence-based and violate people’s freedom of choice, write Dr Maryanne Demasi & Prof Peter Gøtzsche.
@bmj_latest
See full article:
COVID-19 vaccine passports are not evidence-based and violate people’s freedom of choice
www.bmj.com
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Someone retweeted: "I tried to follow the science, but it was simply not there. I then followed the money, that’s where I found the science." This is a pretty accurate description of psychiatric drug trials, and a lot else financed by industry.
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Prof Ioannidis, Stanford: COVID-19 destroyed science, free speech and society; influencers spread wrong messages. Prof Kulldorff, Harvard: fired for warning against lockdowns and for saying correctly that the use of vaccines was sometimes misguided.
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“Don’t believe anything, not one thing, put out by a pharmaceutical company. Just don’t believe it.
You start from there,” said Catherine DeAngelis, editor-in-chief, Journal of the American Medical
Association (JAMA), on US National Public Radio
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Why did the whole world panic when COVID-19 killed far fewer people than our prescription drugs kill, year in and year out? And yet, we do absolutely nothing to stop this, which is much easier than to prevent COVID deaths, as drugs are much overused.
Professor Gøtzsche: Prescription drugs are the third leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer. We should not take so many drugs.
@CebmOxford
@EMA_News
@Public_Citizen
@US_FDA
@VPrasadMDMPH
@WHO
@RobertKennedyJr
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It is amazing and shameful that the FDA still allows people paid by the drug company whose product is being evaluated to be members of its advisory committees. Does FDA mean Filled with Drug Ads?
FDA voting members, many of whom have ties to Pfizer, recommended all kids 5-11yrs have Pfizer's C-19 vaccine & conceded lack of safety data.
"We’re never going to learn about how safe the vaccine is unless we start giving it. That’s just the way it goes"
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Sweden did exceptionally well during the COVID-19 pandemic avoiding lockdowns and face masks. Excess mortality was among the lowest in the world The great pandemic should be abbreviated to the great panic
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Lab leak in Wuhan of a bat virus made more dangerous on purpose is likely the cause of 3 mio. deaths. This 45-min. article by a science writer who have worked on the staff of Nature, Science New York Times is very convincing
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The coronavirus has created a nanny state where old people are not allowed to be visited by their loved ones. This is unsolicited and unacceptable paternalism. The violation of basic human rights brings us on a dangerous course away from democracy
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Vaccine hesitancy: With rare exceptions - the vaccine deniers who reject all vaccines totally irrationally - the public should not be blamed. People are sceptical because they know our public health institutions have been corrupted by Big Pharma money.
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LinkedIn censored Kulldorff when he reposted a post of a colleague from Iceland on vaccines, for stating that vaccine mandates were dangerous, and for posting that natural immunity is stronger than vaccine immunity (which is correct!)
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For every death, many more who are wounded. Prescription drugs are not only the leading cause of death . They lead to permanent physical and psychiatric disturbances, or permanent disability, in many, many more people. Use drugs as little as you can
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The biggest scandal in healthcare: Prescription drugs are the leading cause of death. And psychiatric drugs are the third leading cause of death. Depression drugs are the major killer.
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Psychiatry in a nutshell, a typical story: A man with existential problems ends up on two depression drugs, one neuroleptic, lithium, four different sleeping pills, and electroshocks. Some psychiatrists should be in jail, and the specialty should be demolished, as it is harmful.
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Death caused by a facemask: 11-month-old baby boy dies after being forced to wear mask at Taiwan daycare. The baby’s mask had become soaked with his tears and mucus from crying, inhibiting his ability to breathe. . Will the mask folly never stop?
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FDA and CDC added COVID-19 vaccines to the childhood schedule without having adequate data. It is highly likely that boosting young men and vaccinating young kids is harmful. What happened to the precautionary principle? Why has the world run amok?
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Ever heard of anyone who used face masks correctly? I haven’t. People used the same mask for weeks till it disintegrated. Politicians love them because they are a visible sign that politicians do something. Washing hands is not visible to others but it works.
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Over the past 10 years, cholesterol levels have been falling while the number of Americans dying of heart disease has increased by 15%, after a 15% fall during the decade before. Is lowering cholesterol really the best way to prevent heart deaths?
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Pfizer extorts European governments to buy COVID-19 vaccines doses they don’t need, and the European Commission refuses transparency about its deals with Pfizer. It is utterly disgusting. Boycott Pfizer, please.
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Didier Raoult has sued a leading expert in scientific misconduct and harassed her seriously in other ways. Her fault? She correctly pointed out that Raoult’s “study” on hydroxycholoroquine for COVID-19 is seriously flawed and totally worthless
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Expelled Cochrane director to set up new institute for “integrity in science” See the programme for the inauguration 9 March in Copenhagen:
#cochranecollab
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Anthony Fauci and Francis Collins, director of the NIH, have both stated that NIH did not fund gain-of-function research in Wuhan . This is demonstrably false . And the truth cannot be suppressed much longer
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Origin of COVID-19: The biggest cover up in medical history. Read my article:
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FDA hid the problems and are still hiding them: After more than a year they have still not followed up a potential increase in serious adverse events (blood clots) in elderly people receiving Pfizer’s covid-19 vaccine BMJ free access
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Cochrane’s leadership failed the world again. Threw their researchers under the bus even though their review was of the highest quality. The problem? Face masks apparently don’t work, which, politically, is an unpalatable message. Shame on you, Cochrane!
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I am not speaking at this event. Vaccines, e.g. against measles, polio, yellow fever, smallpox, have saved millions of lives. It is unethical, unscientific and dangerous for patients to be against vaccines as a matter of “principle”.
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Scientists must stand up to governments who act against the evidence. The COVID-19 pandemic not only killed millions of people but also scientific freedom, freedom of speech, and our ethical norms. (I also tweeted about this article 8 days ago)
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Frankenstein’s virus monster. Boston researchers combined genes from the Wuhan virus with those from the omicron virus, and mortality in humanised mice went up from zero to 80%. Gain-of-function research must be immediately outlawed.
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Boycott drugs from Johnson & Johnson. They have sued four doctors who published studies citing links between talc-based personal care products and cancer . Science should be debated, and courts should not be used to silence, intimidate and ruin scientists
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Coronavirus: Are we the victims of mass panic? Case-fatality rate is similar to influenza but far fewer deaths so far, and it is mostly elderly with comorbidity that die, as for other virus infections.
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COVID-19 infection fatality rate: Is it worse than for influenza? It does not seem so. There are other reasons why so many have died in some areas. When will we get a life that is less abnormal than now?
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Has the article been peer reviewed? This is immaterial. Judge science by its merits, not by anything else. The peer review system is often abused to prevent uncomfortable findings from being published in “major” journals, protecting guild and financial interests.
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The doctor charlatan: “My financial conflicts of interest related to the drug industry do not influence my judgment, as I work for so many companies.” So, prostitution is okay, as long as you have many customers, right?
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When FDA approved Vioxx in 1999 despite disconcerting evidence, it stated it lacked ‘complete certainty’ that the drug increased cardiovascular risk. We knew this from its mode of action. Vioxx killed over 100,000 patients before Merck pulled it
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Norway’s world famous medication free psychiatric hospitals have cured psychotic patients mainstream psychiatry had given up upon after first destroying them with psychiatric drugs for 10-15 years. Mainstream psychiatry tries to get the hospitals closed
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Made in China: the coronavirus that killed millions of people was likely fabricated on purpose to make it dangerous to humans as part of the gain-of-function research and escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology because of sloppy safety procedures.
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Новак Ђоковић (Novak Đoković) is not against vaccines but values personal freedom and refuses forced vaccination with a COVID-19 vaccine to be allowed to play tennis in Australia and USA. I have the deepest respect for this. Mandatory vaccination is not OK (see my vaccine book)
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The depression pill epidemic. A two-page summary of the most important issues by me. The pills do not cure, lead to much harm, and should be avoided.
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) : “Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media.”
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Lies about a chemical imbalance as the cause of depression on three-quarters of 39 websites we examined in 10 countries: Our paper is now open access, thanks to the Nordic Cochrane Centre: 22 websites stated falsely that depression pills are not addictive.
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The lie about low serotonin causing depression - the chemical imbalance myth - that most patients have been told is effectively debunked in this systematic review:
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Statin meta-analysis: small effect of statins and no consistent relationship between lowering LDL-Cholesterol and death. A critic said the article “hasn’t shaken my faith in statins.” The authors “put faith aside and focused on the data.”
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“Death of a whistleblower and Cochrane's moral collapse.” My book, just released, reveals secret recordings that show how the Cochrane leadership betrayed the charity’s mission and values and misled millions of people.
#cochranecollab
#sundpol
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Cochrane's leadership refuses the face the fact, which is that the randomised trials do not suggest that face masks work. There is none so blind as she or he WHO WILL NOT SEE!
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Everyone: Help us change psychiatry’s misleading narrative: Say depression pills, not antidepressants, as they do not have specific effects for depression; say major tranquillizers, which is what antipsychotics do - they have no specific effects for psychosis.
#psychiatry
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Big pharma denied that benzodiazepines and depression pills can cause dependence. It took 20-30 years before it was officially acknowledged that withdrawal symptoms can be severe and last months or years, for both types of drugs
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Censorship in action. Maryanne Demasi produced two brilliant TV programs challenging the cholesterol hypothesis and the overprescription of statins. The result? Big pharma and others with vested interests went to war and the entire team was axed.
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YouTube’s horrible censorship: Important 2019 lecture by top vaccine researcher Peter Aaby on total mortality after vaccination with live and non-live vaccines was just removed. I have uploaded the lecture on my website:
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Evidence-based medicine, guidelines, and systematic reviews of drugs are mainly a garbage in garbage out exercises because we do not have access to the trial data and rely on manipulated reports drug companies publish in medical journals beholden to them
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Medicamentos que matan y crimen organizado. La traducción al español de mi libro “Deady medicines and organised crime” ya está disponible gratuitamente.
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I am currently involved with an attempt at stopping the request of mandatory flu shots in universities in California as a condition for attending classes or working there. Horrible, and goes against the science and against basic human rights.
@PGtzsche1
I hope you didn’t conclude vaccines should be mandatory given the state of affairs and the lowering of standards
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A meeting poster announced psychiatry professor Charles Nemeroff as "one of the world's leading experts on the neurobiology of depression". Since no neurobiology of depression has been discovered, this is like being "one of the world's leading experts on the Loch Ness monster"
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Something is rotten in the state of Sweden. Children are treated with depression pills four times as often as in Norway and Denmark, at 17 per 1000. This is cruel and insane. The pills don’t work for children and double their risk of suicide.
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New Californian law seeks to ‘gag’ doctors contradicting consensus on covid-19 But there is no consensus on the issues; authorities disagree wildly. We are back to the Middle Ages. Doctors can lose their licence for disagreeing with the “church"
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Depression pills increase suicides also in adults. Analysis of FDA trial data, including follow-up: . These pills should not be used. A pill against heart attacks that increases heart attacks would immediately be taken off the market.
#psychiatry
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Psychiatric drugs worsen outcomes and increase mortality. Read Robert Whitaker’s convincing account of the science just published Psychiatric leaders deceive the world when speaking about “progress.” Psychiatry is a totally failed medical specialty.
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“Every major media outlet in the United States shares at least one board member with at least one pharmaceutical company … they can’t be mean to big pharma because big pharma pays their bills” (advertising, $5 billion a year with these media outlets)
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Serious harms of the COVID-19 vaccines: a systematic review. See 10 salient points from our review: . The benefit to harm balance is negative in low-risk groups such as children and people who have recovered from COVID-19. Authorities ignore this.
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Pfizer sued for false COVID-19 vaccine claims. Coerced social media to censor truthful information and intimidated vaccine skeptics, which CEO Albert Bourla called “criminals” who have “cost millions of lives.” . Boycott Pfizer. They are the criminals.
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The COVID-19 chaos, with its violations of basic human rights clearly continues. Read the article. It is very good! Members of the EU Parliament are now protesting.
Covid-19 passports are "illogical" and "must be abandoned"
Now that vaccine passports are being rolled out in major Aussie cities, a look at the science reveals they're underpinned by baseless scientific claims.
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