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Oct 5 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
🚨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.
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@RetsefL
@MdBreathe
@Jikkyleaks
@newstart_2024
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.
Oct 1 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
🚨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.
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@RetsefL @RWMaloneMD @Jikkyleaks
@TheChiefNerd @DowdEdward @weldeiry
@SciGuardians @Kevin_McKernan @MdBreathe
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.
Sep 23 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
🚨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.
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@RetsefL @KUPERWASSERLAB @weldeiry @RWMaloneMD @Jikkyleaks @MdBreathe @RobSchneider @Honest_Medicine @DowdEdward
@HHS_Jim
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.
Sep 10 • 14 tweets • 7 min read
🧵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.
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@SecKennedy @RetsefL @RWMaloneMD @HHS_Jim
@TheChiefNerd @Jikkyleaks @Kevin_McKernan @jimmy_dore @RobSchneider
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. blog.maryannedemasi.com/p/breaking-aci…
Sep 4 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
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
@Jikkyleaks
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.
Aug 31 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
💥EXCLUSIVE: Retsef Levi hits back after attacks on his leadership from departing CDC officials
Several top CDC officials quit in protest, denouncing @RetsefL’s leadership of the Covid vaccine work group. Now, in an exclusive interview, Levi reveals what really happened behind closed doors.
@HHS_Jim @SecKennedy @RWMaloneMD
@TheChiefNerd
Dr Demetre Daskalakis, a top official who abruptly resigned from the CDC, posted his resignation letter on @X, now viewed more than 19 million times, declaring his position at the agency “untenable.”
He pointed to the new Terms of Reference for ACIP’s Covid vaccine work group, chaired by Levi, whom he attacked as a figure of “dubious intent and more dubious scientific rigor” who had “ignored all feedback from career staff at CDC.” blog.maryannedemasi.com/p/breaking-aci… @dr_demetre
Aug 29 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
💥New investigation reveals @CDCgov inflated Covid threat level in kids as resignations rock the agency
After withholding key safety data on RSV antibodies, the nation’s top health agency is once again under fire — this time for presenting Covid data in ways that inflate the risk for children.
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@regardthefrost @SecKennedy
@RWMaloneMD @RetsefL
@TheChiefNerd @Jikkyleaks
Among the recent CDC resignations, @dr_demetre, former head of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, accused the new HHS leadership of “unskilled manipulation of data to achieve a political end rather than the good of the American people.”
But the hypocrisy is striking.
Daskalakis was one of the very officials responsible for liaising with ACIP while his own agency was withholding critical safety data on seizures in babies given Sanofi’s RSV monoclonal antibody, clesrovimab.
Aug 21 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
💥BREAKING: ACIP launches sweeping Covid-19 vaccine review under Retsef Levi
Billions of Covid vaccine doses were rolled out on assurances they were safe and effective. Now, ACIP’s new Covid immunisation working group is asking the questions regulators never did. 👇👇
@RetsefL @FLSurgeonGen @TheChiefNerd @newstart_2024 @Jikkyleaks
MIT professor @RetsefL has been an outspoken voice on the @CDCgov's vaccine advisory committee (ACIP) since @SecKennedy's dramatic overhaul in June.
Levi has pressed CDC officials on uncomfortable questions, challenging the narrow surveillance windows used to track harms and insisting that delayed effects could not simply be ruled out.
He also raised concerns about the safety of RSV monoclonal antibodies after clinical trials showed a clear imbalance in infant deaths.
Aug 12 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
❌RETRACTED: How a peer-reviewed study was killed by a “fact check”
When a medical journal starts outsourcing its editorial judgement to media fact-checkers, the entire premise of peer review collapses.
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@newstart_2024 @Jikkyleaks @Kevin_McKernan
In April 2024, a peer-reviewed study by Japanese researchers was published in @CureusMedical.
The study, led by Dr Miki Gibo, a primary care physician at the Matsubara Clinic in Kochi, Japan, found that in 2022 there was a statistically significant rise in deaths from certain cancers coinciding with the rollout of Covid-19 mRNA injections.
They made no claim of causation — only correlations — and outlined several possible explanations, including Covid-19 vaccination, lockdowns, and reduced cancer care.
New court filings reveal a clinical trial investigator tried to warn Merck of autoimmune injuries from Gardasil—but says the company shut him down.
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@MdBreathe @newstart_2024 @TheChiefNerd
Dr Jesper Mehlsen, a Danish physician and former Merck trial investigator, alerted the company to signs of autonomic dysfunction following vaccination.
According to Mehlsen, those warnings were “discarded.”
Jul 24 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
🧵Is the war on saturated fat finally going to end?
They called us fringe. Dangerous. Irresponsible. But we were right about saturated fat. Is the medical establishment finally ready to admit it?
@SecKennedy @DrMakaryFDA @SecRollins
In 2013, I produced a two-part investigative series for @ABCTV Catalyst, examining the demonisation of saturated fat (part 1) and the widespread use of cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins (part 2).
The first episode traced the origins of the diet-heart hypothesis and the work of Ancel Keys, whose Seven Countries Study laid the foundation for decades of dietary advice warning against saturated fat.
The medical dogma was firmly entrenched: saturated fat raised cholesterol, and cholesterol caused heart disease.
But the science behind it was shaky—built on cherry-picked data and upheld more by consensus than by critical evaluation.
The series featured experts like Dr Michael Eades, an early advocate for low-carb, high-fat diets; cardiologist Dr Stephen Sinatra; nutritionist Dr Jonny Bowden; science journalist Gary Taubes; and cardiologist Dr Ernest Curtis.
Jul 14 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
🔥Exposing the rot: Journal ignores missing data on Covid vaccine safety in pregnancy
The study authors quietly excluded 22 vaccinated women from their final analysis, and the outcomes of those pregnancies were never disclosed. If included, the data could have dramatically altered the study’s conclusions.
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@RetsefL @Jikkyleaks
The 2022 study was widely used to reassure the public about the safety of Covid-19 vaccination during pregnancy.
It reported no increased risk of stillbirth or preterm birth among women who received Covid-19 mRNA vaccines during pregnancy compared to those who remained unvaccinated--BUT IT EXCLUDED 22 WOMEN WHO'D BEEN VACCINATED. …pregnancychildbirth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…
Jul 2 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
🚨The 'plot' to take down RFK Jr looks familiar
A leaked memo published at @brownstoneinst reveals how powerful pharmaceutical interests are plotting to remove RFK Jr. from office. I’ve seen this playbook before—because a decade ago, they used it on me.
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@jeffreyatucker @lifebiomedguru @Jikkyleaks @newstart_2024
@TheChiefNerd @maryhollandnyc @ProfTimNoakes
The document, reportedly from the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO)—the largest pharmaceutical lobby group in the US—outlines a US$2mil campaign to “neutralise” Kennedy before September. brownstone.org/articles/the-p…
Jun 24 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
🛑The Cutter Incident - did we learn anything from the Covid vaccine rollout?
The Cutter Incident exposed a critical vulnerability in vaccine production- protocols that are safe & effective in the lab don’t always hold up under the pressures of large-scale manufacturing. 👇👇
@Jikkyleaks @RetsefL @Kevin_McKernan
Salk’s inactivated POLIO vaccine was seen as a breakthrough - the US gov rushed to roll it out in 1955.
But in the haste to scale up production, oversight of the manufacturing process slipped.
One manufacturer, Cutter Laboratories, failed to properly inactivate the virus in some of its vaccine batches. The consequences were devastating.
Around 200,000 children received doses that inadvertently contained live poliovirus. More than 200 were paralysed. At least 10 died.
May 7 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
🚨Merck rigged Gardasil trials to conceal harms, court documents reveal
A forensic analysis by @PGtzsche1 - now part of the official court record—lays bare a chilling narrative of clinical trial rigging, regulatory failure, and global deception.
From the outset, @PGtzsche1 argues that Merck engineered its clinical trials not to detect harms, but to mask them.
Rather than using an inert placebo—such as saline solution, the gold standard in clinical research—Merck used an aluminium-based adjuvant as the control in all but two small trials.
And those two trials—marked with a red box below—showed a significantly greater incidence of harm compared to trials that used an aluminium adjuvant or a comparator vaccine as the "placebo."
Apr 23 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
💥Slovakia launches Covid-19 vaccine probe after DNA contamination findings
A scientific analysis has sparked calls for transparency, independent testing, and a freeze on future vaccine deliveries to Slovakia.
@Jikkyleaks @Kevin_McKernan @MdBreatheblog.maryannedemasi.com/p/slovakia-lau…
The move, announced by Slovakia’s Prime Minister @RobertFicoSVK, follows an independent scientific analysis commissioned abroad by Czech researcher Dr Soňa Peková,
The report found that vaccine samples used in Slovakia, contained "extremely high levels of DNA" that the “manufacturer did not disclose” in the relevant regulatory documents. blog.maryannedemasi.com/p/new-evidence…
Apr 15 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
📢The silencing of scientific curiosity
Medical journals have became enforcers of orthodoxy—retracting genuine hypotheses while protecting proven fraud.
Why is a 'hypothesis' a threat to science?
@SabinehazanMD @Jikkyleaks @Kevin_McKernan @MdBreathe @newstart_2024blog.maryannedemasi.com/p/the-silencin…
As a scientific writer and researcher, I’ve witnessed the decline of medical journals firsthand. I interviews Rita Redberg, ex-EIC of @JAMAInternalMed, Richard Smith ex EIC of @bmj_latest and John Ioannidis, the most cited scientist in the world blog.maryannedemasi.com/p/are-medical-…
Apr 7 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
💉Should you take a flu shot?
Despite evidence of poor efficacy, advocates say "it's better than nothing".
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@Jikkyleaks @MdBreathe @Liz_Wheeler @RobertKennedyJr @CartlandDavidblog.maryannedemasi.com/p/should-you-t…
In 2013, Dr Peter Doshi wrote an editorial in @JAMAInternalMed, titled "Influenza Vaccines
Time for a Rethink." He argued that flu vaccines do not reliably reduce outcomes that matter to patients—such as hospitalisation or death.
🚨Surge in brain tumours among nurses at Boston hospital triggers urgent inquiry
*More cases are coming forward*
Renowned cancer researcher @weldeiry calls for a full-scale inquiry—including potential Covid-19 vaccine-related risks @TheChiefNerd @btysonmd @Jikkyleaksblog.maryannedemasi.com/p/surge-in-bra…
.@CBSNews first reported at least 10 nurses had been diagnosed with brain tumours—some malignant, others benign—with three requiring surgery.
But the hospital disputed these figures, stating there are only 5 confirmed cases.
I contacted a nurse who worked at Newton-Wellesley for nearly a decade and was recently diagnosed with a brain tumour revealed that at least 17 individuals had come forward and were undergoing assessment.
Nurse's union @MassNurses said, “We are speaking with many, many more nurses and gathering their medical records."
Mar 29 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
💥FDA’s top vaccine chief Peter Marks is out the door amid vaccine safety disputes and looming legal challenges💥
Read about his troubled legacy at the FDA 👇
@Jikkyleaks @MdBreathe @nicksortor @RobSchneider @MikeBenzCyber blog.maryannedemasi.com/p/fdas-top-vac…
Peter Marks blamed the newly minted Health Secretary @RobertKennedyJr for his exit.
“It has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the Secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies,” Marks wrote.
Mar 17 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
🚨New evidence of DNA contamination in mRNA vaccines – too big to ignore
Data from a lab in the Czech Republic showed - in some cases - the DNA contamination exceeded the amount of mRNA itself
@Jikkyleaks @Kevin_McKernan @MdBreathe @RobertKennedyJrblog.maryannedemasi.com/p/new-evidence…
Dr Soňa Peková, clinical biochemist and molecular geneticist with 71 published papers, detected excessive amounts of residual DNA in both Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. 10letters.org/CzechResearch.…