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May 5, 2023 8 tweets 6 min read Read on X
🧵 Thread on my statin research 👇🏼

Our analysis in @JAMAInternalMed
21 statin trials, 143,532 participants

The benefits of #statins were minimal & most trial participants who took statins, derived no clinical benefit.

Reducing LDL-C with statins showed an inconsistent/weak… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Image
We respond to a critique by @PeterAttiaMD of our systematic review and meta analysis of #statin trials

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Proposed guidelines in the UK recommend #statins to all adults if “the person is happy to take a statin”.

Here’s why it’s a bad idea 👇🏼
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Do statins cause muscle aches?
~ 50% of patients stop their statins within 1yr of commencing therapy, mostly because of muscle problems.

But a major study published in @TheLancet concluded that statins are rarely to blame.

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Experts proposed that #statins should be available over the counter.

Cardiologist Robert DuBroff and I disagree. 👇🏼

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Here is a documentary I produced about cholesterol, statins and heart disease, which led to powerful vested interests calling for its censorship. Featuring @RFRedberg @DrJohnAbramson & more

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Scientific Censorship - read what led to the unravelling of scientific journalism at ABC TV and the prolonged, orchestrated attacks on those challenging orthodoxy.

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STATIN WARS: have we been misled by the evidence? Published in 2018 by BMJ’s BJSM. @BJSM_BMJ

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Oct 28
🚨 TGA hides from questions about sudden infant deaths after vaccination.

The @TGAgovau refuses to confirm if it has investigated the sudden infant deaths reported following Infanrix-Hexa® vaccination.


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Infanrix-Hexa® is a vaccine that lies at the heart of the Australian National immunisation program - administered to infants at 2, 4 & 6 months of age.

There are 43 reports of sudden infant deaths post-vaccination. @TGAgovau tries to kill the story by ignoring media enquiries.
Analysis of European docs found a "cluster" of sudden infant deaths after vaccination with Infanrix-Hexa®

Report concluded, “The clustering of deaths soon after immunisation suggests that the deaths were caused by the vaccine.”

Published 2018 in @IndJMedEthics

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Read 4 tweets
Oct 23
🔥EXCLUSIVE: Stanley Plotkin on the lack of vaccine-safety science

At 92, Plotkin is still considered a giant in the vaccine industry, often referred to as the "godfather" of vaccines.

Plotkin responds to questions about his provocative editorial in @NEJM about the lack of vaccine safety studies.
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@TheChiefNerd @MdBreathe @BGatesIsaPyschoImage
A table in the editorial shows the ‘biological mechanism’ for most vaccine injuries is not understood, despite decades of use.

Understanding the biological mechanism of vaccine injuries not only enables the development of safer vaccines, but it also informs which injuries meet the requirements for compensation on the US Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP).Image
Plotkin says funding for more vaccine-safety research should come from the same pot of money that has been earmarked for compensating people with vaccine injuries, i.e. the VICP fund.

As of April 2023, the remaining balance was $4.3 billion, but should this money be taken from the VICP fund to conduct vaccine safety studies that should have already been done?
Read 4 tweets
Oct 16
🚨FDA ignored residual DNA fragments in the Gardasil HPV vaccine
“I was shocked to find DNA fragments in the HPV vaccine because DNA is not supposed to be there,” recalls Sin Hang Lee, an internationally renowned genomics expert.

Link 👇
@Kevin_McKernan @Jikkyleaks @TheChiefNerd @zerohedgeImage
In 2006, when Gardasil was first approved, Merck assured @US_FDA there was no HPV DNA in the vaccine. But this was challenged in 2011 when Sin Hang Lee found HPV DNA in a young, sexually naive girl who had never been exposed to the virus, but had received Gardasil. Image
The @US_FDA admitted there was residual DNA in the vaccine, but said that it was "expected" to be in products that are manufactured using recombinant technology and also that Gardasil posed "no risk to vaccine recipients."

RESPONSE: “The FDA claimed that the presence of DNA fragments was not a problem without showing any studies to prove it had been investigated or that it was safe,” said Dr Lee.Image
Read 6 tweets
Sep 29
🧵Thousands injured by covid-19 shots abandoned by government
Today, the Australian government’s Vaccine Claims Scheme stops accepting new compensation claims, despite thousands of people continuing to suffer with covid-19 vaccine injuries.

@SaiKate108 @jikkyleaks @drmelissamccann @CoVerseAUblog.maryannedemasi.com/p/thousands-in…Image
One of the primary criticisms of the scheme has been the overly stringent criteria for eligibility.

Many injuries following covid-19 vaccination are not officially recognised - even if a doctor has confirmed the injury was "caused by" the vaccine.
Rado Faletič, PhD, took his first Pfizer dose in Oct 2021. He felt numbing across his body & pain in lymph nodes, but his doctor assured him that it was safe to take another dose. Within hours of his 2nd dose, his symptoms rapidly escalated requiring several trips to the emergency centre. He remains unable to return to work.Image
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Jul 28
🧵Does the new study on face masks show they prevent respiratory illnesses?
Here's an analysis on the new randomised trial, which some claim is proof that surgical masks prevent respiratory illnesses.


@DineshDSouza @VPrasadMDMPH @davidemccune @doc_gero @andrewbostom @jikkyleaksblog.maryannedemasi.com/p/does-the-new…Image
Wearing a face mask to prevent respiratory illnesses has been one of the most divisive debates of the pandemic.

Tom Jefferson, lead author of the Cochrane review, told me “There is just no evidence that they make any difference. Full stop.”  The interview was picked up by media such as the New York Times and CNN, sparking an international furore. blog.maryannedemasi.com/p/exclusive-le…
New York Times columnist, @zeynep Tufekci pushed back in her own column arguing that despite no high-quality data, we could still conclude from less rigorous observational studies, that masks do, in fact, work.

@NaomiOreskes agreed with Tufekci, claiming the public had been “misled” by the Cochrane review because it prioritised high-quality studies and excluded less rigorous ones. blog.maryannedemasi.com/p/did-cochrane…
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Jul 9
🧵The unravelling of AstraZeneca's covid-19 vaccine.
It went from being hailed as a lifesaver to getting pulled from the market. I take a look back at what happened.


@jikkyleaks @BrianneDressen @P_McCulloughMD @drmelissamccann @ianmcdermottLSO @SaiKate108 @newstart_2024 @rustyrockets @TonyNikolic10 @james_freeman__ @JamesMelville @RefugeOfSinner5 @ClownWorld_ @KimDotcom @jeffreyatucker @ClareCraigPath @robinmonotti @EricClapton @tonynickolic @React19orgblog.maryannedemasi.com/p/the-unravell…Image
Science by press release: AstraZeneca boasted in a press release that early results of its phase III clinical trial found the vaccine could provide 100% protection against severe disease, hospitalisation and death.
From tabloid newspapers to medical journals, everyone was keen to report this extraordinary finding from the drug company’s press release.Image
But @AstraZeneca “cherry picked” data which may have giving the impression the vaccine was more effective than it was.

“Decisions like this are what erode public trust in the scientific process,” said the independent Data Safety Monitoring Board overseeing the trial.
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