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Paul D. Thacker

Jul 12 • 13 tweets • 7 min read

Vaccines Are Magic disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/vaccines-are…
Current social conventions allow disparagement of drugs and devices, but critique a vaccine … good night, and good luck. /1

"In a free country, we punish men for the crimes they commit, but never for the opinions they have," President Harry S. Truman, in veto against the anti-communist “Internal Security Act of 1950.” /2

I'm attending an award ceremony in London this Thursday as a finalist absw.org.uk/pages/absw-awa… for an investigation I wrote for The BMJ on data integrity issues in Pfizer's #COVID19 clinical trial. bmj.com/content/375/bm… /3

@mtaibbi

Believe it or not, Facebook labeled this investigation "misinformation" because it investigated Pfizer's #COVID19 clinical trial. See @mtaibbi interview w/ me on this: The British Medical Journal Story That Exposed Politicized "Fact-Checking" taibbi.substack.com/p/the-british-… /4

We are living in the Great Vaccine Scare—hysteria about any vaccine criticism, which has reached a fever pitch during the pandemic. You can't critique vaccines, because VACCINES ARE MAGIC!
Of course, I'm not the only person who has been targeted. disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/vaccines-are… /5

Please subscribe to The Disinformation Chronicle: disinformationchronicle.substack.com /6

@DrAseemMalhotra

Still trying to understand what happened w/ @DrAseemMalhotra who has been criticised for giving a non-BMA talk and receiving a non-BMA award. But hysteria seems at play.
“There’s a lot of money and many careers behind these vaccines,” Malhotra told me. disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/vaccines-are… /7

@AlexBerenson

.@AlexBerenson was canceled by @Twitter for writing COVID vaccines do not prevent infection or transmission of the virus—information that is scientifically accurate. After he was reinstated, he tweeted the same thing again /8

https://twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1544704266249674754?s=20&t=_rt66BSKnTlJj_8QkCT4SQ

@Twitter

.@Twitter canceled Dr. Meryl Nass for tweeting the conclusions from an Israeli preprint which then ended up in a letter to the @NEJM nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…
Her tweet about the paper's scientific conclusions apparently desecrated vaccine magic. /9

The FDA blacklisted their two top vaccine experts: Dr. Marion Gruber, the director of the FDA’s vaccines office, & Dr. Philip Krause, after they said no to boosters. disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/vaccines-are… And President Biden promised to "follow the science"? /10

@MartinKulldorff

The CDC blacklisted @MartinKulldorff for being "pro-vaccine" then Twitter censored him for being "anti-vaccine." All things are possible in the Great Vaccine Scare. /11 disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/vaccines-are…

Where are these amazeballs science writers? Have they done an Edward R. Murrow and spoken out in alarm and dismay about this state of fear and paranoia? Of course, they're too busy doing #scicomm and cozying up to Anthony Fauci disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/vaccines-are… /12

Tom Jefferson, Senior Associate Tutor University of Oxford who led many of the Cochrane Reviews on the flu vaccine: "“Unfortunately, vaccines have become a type of religion.” disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/vaccines-are… /END

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