Thread by @ClaudeSteve6

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The @berlinerzeitung is spreading antivax misinformation via his journalist @franzbecchi and I'll show you why.
The full article is available here for free, you can translate it in your own langage : archive.is/i6TF1

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Why this thread?
This topic is very important:

a) It fuels vaccine scepticism that can harm people and children. This kind of article is very dangerous imo.

b) according to @Wikipedia_fr, the @berlinerzeitung is the most read newspaper in Berlin.
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berliner_…

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(Oh wait...)

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Back to the article:
Here's the original german. "Zugeben" or "aufraumen" means to admit, to confess sth.

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Did the UE Commission admit the covid vaccines were approved without complete safety data, as it is written in @berlinerzeitung here?

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❌ Wrong for 2 reasons

1. Here's the full answer to the far-right EU parliament member Gerald Hauser that confirms there was enough data demonstrating the benefit outweighed the risks.
europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document…

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2. The EU Commission didn't admit anything in 2025, as the CMA (conditional marketing approval) was known from the beginning and explained publicly in... December 2020.
ec.europa.eu/commission/pre…

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For every new drug/vaccine on the market (even for normal approval), there's a phase IV that adds more data. No scoop here.
sfpt-fr.org/faq-grand-publ…

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In the first version of the @berlinerzeitung article, the link was heading to another (rhetorical) question about of the EU response, again and again from the MAP Gerald Hauser ⤵️

https://x.com/ClaudeSteve6/status/1969087372802359641

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Thanks to @franzbecchi to have corrected his article. Now it's to him to correct the titles, and everything else I'll show further in this thread.

https://x.com/franzbecchi/status/1969098250968772862

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Let's go further. The journalist try to convince these are "key" questions. If we look at data and facts questions 1 and 3 aren't "key" questions (no opinion on question 2).

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Q1: "Will the EU revoke vaccines?"
a) Vaccines used in 2021 aren't the same as in 2022, 2023, 2024... Which one he wants to revoke, the first ones that are no longer used? lol
b) They are now under standard marketing authorisation. lolilol
ema.europa.eu/en/human-regul…

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Q3: "What does the Commission say about the continued lack of essential data on the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines, as the FDA has now officially confirmed?"

Answer : I find your lack of data disturbing. lol
➡️scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=fr&…

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Let's go further in the @berlinerzeitung article.
"Meanwhile, in the USA"... they nominated the ex-president of the most powerful and rich antivax association, Children Health Defense as US Secretary of Health.
So what's your analysis, @franzbecchi? 🙃

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Please replace "more critical" by "skeptic ignorants".

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Who are those new ACIP members?
As a journalist you didn't check, @franzbecchi?

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Part 2.
Thanks Thibault L'alligator for the pictures.

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Please replace "will now thoroughly evaluate" by "give their opinion based on cherry-picking and cognitive bias".

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The end of the @berlinerzeitung article...
Evidence of what? Evidence there are reports of death after a vaccine in the VAERS? This is misleading, and seems an antivax narrative.

@berlinerzeitung 20/20
Just an advertisement for another @berlinerzeitung from @franzbecchi to debunk...

https://x.com/ClaudeSteve6/status/1969331971219165242

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