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Peter Doshi: Pfizer and Moderna’s “95% effective” vaccines—let’s be cautious and first see the full data

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Source Link: https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/11/26/peter-doshi-pfizer-and-modernas-95-effective-vaccines-lets-be-cautious-and-first-see-the-full-data/ Excerpt:  November 26, 2020 Only full transparency and rigorous scrutiny of the data will allow for informed decision making, argues Peter Doshi In the United States, all eyes are on Pfizer and Moderna. The topline efficacy results from their experimental covid-19 vaccine trials are astounding at first glance. Pfizer says it recorded ... Read more

These Coronavirus Trials Don’t Answer the One Question We Need to Know

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Source Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/22/opinion/covid-vaccine-coronavirus.html Excerpt:  We may not find out whether the vaccines prevent moderate or severe cases of Covid-19. Sept. 22, 2020 By Peter Doshi and Eric Topol Dr. Doshi is an associate professor at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. Dr. Topol is a professor of molecular medicine at Scripps Research. If you ... Read more

ABSOLUTE (effectiveness) vs RELATIVE (efficacy) RISK REDUCTION in Research Reporting Bias

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Doctors and the public are being told that these injections are “95% effective” but that is the intentional misrepresentation of 1) a STATISTICAL FINDING as if it were 2) REAL-WORLD PROTECTION Doctors and the general public are being told that these injections are “95% effective” but that is the intentional misrepresentation of 1) a statistical … Read more

Bottom Line: The Vaccine Trials Are Rigged – “Effective” Doesn’t Mean What We Think

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When we hear a vaccine is effective, what do we think? We think it’ll protect us from catching something, right? Or it’ll prevent us from getting really sick, right? Bottom Line: These trials were NEVER designed to determine that. That’s a BOMBSHELL, in our book. Clipped from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_zty-P-iV0 95% Effective! Woo-Hoo!!! But wait… effective at what??? … Read more

How Effective Is The COVID-19 Vaccine?

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“New details from the #Covid19 trials have revealed troubling details in the clinical trial design. This new revelation calls into question the real efficacy of the Covid vaccine.”  Credit to Del Bigtree and The Highwire: https://thehighwire.com/videos/how-effective-is-the-covid-19-vaccine/

“Effective”… You Keep Using That Word (For Covid Shots)…

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Yeah, a Princess Bride reference. We’re told “95% effective,” and of course we get excited. We’re meant to get excited. Spoiler: It’s misleading. We expect that “effective” means it’ll protect us from serious illness or death, or at least stop transmission (slow the spread). Nope, not so much. Peter Doshi finds, as those of us … Read more

Christine Grady: Calling the Shots on Human Experimentation

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  Medical Ethics should be front and center right now, with Big Pharma and NGOs like the Gates Foundation trying to rush an experimental RNA vaccine to market. In this video, Amazing Polly uncovers a disturbing conflict of interest in US government agencies. Who is Christine Grady? Head of Human Experimentation at NIH.  And… Anthony … Read more

Christine Grady, MSN, PhD Chief, Bioethics Head, Section on Human Subjects Research

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Christine Grady, MSN, PhD Chief, Bioethics Head, Section on Human Subjects ResearchBioethicsBS, Georgetown University MSN, Boston College PhD, Georgetown University Email: CGrady@cc.nih.gov Phone:301-496-2429 Dr. Christine Grady’s contributions are both conceptual and empirical and are primarily in the ethics of clinical research, including informed consent, vulnerability, study design, recruitment, and international research ethics, as well as … Read more