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A physician questions the COVID vaccine data from Israel

Conditions
March 6, 2021

Bloodletting may be the best-known example of a once widely used, faulty medical treatment, but there are many more. Hormone replacement therapy for postmenopausal women, famously touted by experts, turned out to be complicated and sometimes harmful.

The list of medical reversals is long, and one cause is common. When observational studies compare people in the community who receive treatment with those who don’t, the treatment …

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A physician questions the COVID vaccine data from Israel

Enthusiasm over evidence? What the Israeli vaccination data actually show.

Physician
February 23, 2021

Coronavirus vaccines are crucial to taming the pandemic. Everyone should get one. Please, please, get vaccinated.

Now, that’s out of the way—I’m no anti-vaxxer. I am a huge supporter of vaccines and believe vaccination will help bring an early end to the worst global health disaster in modern history.

But there is something strange happening. Media and scientific articles on vaccine effectiveness are increasingly unhinged. Reports are drifting away from science on …

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Enthusiasm over evidence? What the Israeli vaccination data actually show.

How transparent were the COVID vaccine trials?

Conditions
January 10, 2021

On March 2nd, 2020, as New York State announced its first proven case of COVID-19, a federal court there handed down a stunning decision. For 10 years, according to the court, the United States government illegally failed to hold drug companies accountable when they did not report, or inaccurately reported, crucial data about their drugs’ safety and efficacy.

Between 2007 and 2017, the court held, the Food …

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How transparent were the COVID vaccine trials?

Are there reasons to doubt remdesivir?

Meds
May 23, 2020

On April 29th Anthony Fauci announced the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, an institute he runs, had completed a study of the antiviral remdesivir for COVID-19. The drug reduced time to recovery from 15 to 11 days, he said, a breakthrough proving “a drug can block this virus.” Now people are clamoring for $1,000-a-pill remdesivir.

While the results were preliminary, unpublished, and unconfirmed by …

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Are there reasons to doubt remdesivir?

In this pandemic, the reality is bigger than any headline

Conditions
May 20, 2020

In January, we learned of an emerging threat in China, a variant of the frightening SARS virus, but worse—more infectious. Since then, we learned China, the first to both see and successfully manage its outbreak, seriously under-detected the disease. According to a widely circulated computer model study, true cases were probably around seven times greater than the official count. Calculations published a …

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In this pandemic, the reality is bigger than any headline