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🧵 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.

See why I disagree tinyurl.com/2n69678u Image
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 15
🔥Inside the Henry Ford vaccine controversy
The Henry Ford Health study comparing vaccinated and unvaccinated children was never published—until Congress forced it into the open.
Here’s what it found, and why it matters.
LINK below 👇👇

@AaronSiriSG @HenryFordHealth
@MdBreathe @Jikkyleaks @DowdEdward @newstart_2024Image
The lead investigator, Dr Marcus Zervos, is a veteran infectious-disease specialist. During the Covid-19 pandemic, he was a regular on local news programs, promoting vaccination and defending public-health mandates.
His involvement gave the project an establishment credibility rarely seen in vaccine-safety research.Image
Completed in 2020, the study was unpublished until it was introduced into the congressional record on 9 September 2025 during a Senate hearing.
The Henry Ford team found vaccinated children had far higher rates of chronic disease than their unvaccinated peers.
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Read 8 tweets
Oct 5
🚨The HPV vaccine
A Scottish study was billed as ‘proof’ the HPV vaccine can wipe out cervical cancer. But a new analysis of the raw data shows it was nothing more than a statistical illusion.

LINK 👇👇
@RetsefL
@MdBreathe
@Jikkyleaks
@newstart_2024Image
In January 2024, headlines erupted worldwide.
“No cervical cancer cases in HPV-vaccinated women,” declared @BBCNews, hailing a landmark breakthrough from Scotland.
A study in the @JNCI_Now claimed that girls who received the HPV vaccine at age 12 or 13 had not developed a single case of cervical cancer.Image
Two Australian researchers have reanalysed the raw data used in the Scottish study. Most women in the “zero cases” group were still under 25 when the study on HPV vaccine ended.

But cervical cancer is rarely seen in women under 25 (average age of diagnosis is ~50) - it takes decades to develop after infection. So of course there were no cancer cases in that cohort. These women were simply too young. Vaccine or no vaccine, the outcome was entirely predictable. @DrSuzanneH7
Read 5 tweets
Oct 1
🚨The Nature of hypocrisy: pharma-funded journals smearing independent voices
@Nature alleges that I endanger public health, but it is the journal — steeped in pharma money — that ought to be looking inward.

LINK 👇👇

@RetsefL @RWMaloneMD @Jikkyleaks
@TheChiefNerd @DowdEdward @weldeiry
@SciGuardians @Kevin_McKernan @MdBreatheImage
According to the email, I was being lumped into an “anti-vaccine movement,” accused of “endangering public health,” and “profiting from disseminating misinformation.”

No evidence was provided. No articles were cited. No definition of “anti-vaccine” was offered. No complainants were named. Just blanket accusations intended as a character assassination.Image
Conflict of interest at the heart of @Nature
This journal that publishes vaccine research while pocketing revenue from pharmaceutical advertising and sponsored content from vaccine manufacturers.

To then assign an editor to target independent journalists who scrutinise that very industry is a glaring conflict of interest.

On its own website, Nature boasts of partnerships with @JanssenUS, @Merck , @AstraZeneca and others, dressing them up as “pioneering collaborations” to “support science.” It even publishes paid advertising features.Image
Read 8 tweets
Sep 23
🚨Moderna misled ACIP on key safety studies
Biodistribution studies were never done on the Covid mRNA vaccine that people actually received — and when confronted with questions, Moderna lied to CDC’s vaccine advisers.
LINK BELOW 👇👇
@RetsefL @KUPERWASSERLAB @weldeiry @RWMaloneMD @Jikkyleaks @MdBreathe @RobSchneider @Honest_Medicine @DowdEdward
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Last week, two members of ACIP’s Covid vaccine work group, Prof Charlotte Kuperwasser & Prof Wafik El-Deiry, presented evidence @moderna_tx did not use its commercial vaccine for key biodistribution studies. Image
ACIP member, Dr Evelyn Griffin asked @moderna_tx if it used the commercial vaccine for biodistribution testing it submitted to the FDA.

“Is it the exact same mRNA that was used in the vaccination product — that I received, for example?”

“Yes, yes it is,” replied Moderna rep, Dr Darin EdwardsImage
Read 6 tweets
Sep 10
🧵ACIP to probe DNA contamination in Covid-19 vaccines
DNA contamination in Covid vaccines is back in the spotlight, with a peer-reviewed study now before CDC advisers just days ahead of their pivotal vote.
LINK BELOW 👇👇

@SecKennedy @RetsefL @RWMaloneMD @HHS_Jim
@TheChiefNerd @Jikkyleaks @Kevin_McKernan @jimmy_dore @RobSchneiderImage
The Advisory Committee on Immunisation Practices (ACIP) has formed a new Covid vaccine work group, chaired by MIT professor @RetsefL. Its Terms of Reference, published last month, explicitly list “DNA contamination” as an issue to be addressed.
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The development follows the publication of a peer-reviewed study in Autoimmunity by @DJSpeicher, @Kevin_McKernan & @JesslovesMJK, which analysed 32 vials of the more recent XBB.1.5 Moderna and Pfizer vaccines.
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Sep 4
While America panics, Europe quietly recalibrates Covid-19 vaccine policy
ATT: @SecKennedy @HHS_Jim @RandPaul @SenBillCassidy
From Sweden to the UK to Australia, countries are narrowing Covid-19 vaccine policies without controversy. So why the panic in the US?

@laralogan
@newstart_2024
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The medical establishment has ramped up the rhetoric against @SecKennedy over narrowing Covid-19 vaccine policy. In @nytimes, 9 former @CDCgov directors warned that his decisions mean “children risk losing access to lifesaving vaccines.”

But US policy is only bringing American practice closer to what Europe has already done.Image
As of Sept 1, Sweden 🇸🇪no longer recommends Covid-19 vaccination for children unless an individual medical assessment finds they are at increased risk of severe disease.
Even then, it is only available with a doctor’s prescription.Image
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