New story on #IllusionofConsensus Substack:

A rare sighting of medical humility.

I spoke to Philadelphia cardiologist @anish_koka about his regrets of vaccinating young, healthy people at his clinic without clear evidence of benefit and a concerning risk of myocarditis.

1/ 🧵 Anointed scientific experts repeatedly got the most consequential issues fatally wrong during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Rather than admitting to their errors, they have doubled down and propagated more misinformation.

But not doctors like @anish_koka.

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The most bizarre, grimly ironic story I've written:

An editor at a top newspaper which rejected my vaccine myocarditis reporting bc of its "pro-vaccine" stance suffered an adverse cardiac event after his 2nd Pfizer shot.

Cardiologist @anish_koka gives medical insight.

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"Last week, I published a bombshell story in which I shared my private communications with editors at top publications who roundly rejected my writing critical of Covid mandates:

I'm going to pass. As I've said many times before, we are a pro-vaccination newspaper, and… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

I was hesitant to release this for months, but my new project with @DrJBhattacharya prompted me to share.

How multiple outlets rejected my critical coverage of Covid mandates and myocarditis in young men:

"We’re not going to run any anti-vaccine pieces."illusionconsensus.com/p/how-covid-wa… "Even editors who I deemed as allies — publishing polarizing pieces such as the 'fallacies of white privilege' — were averse to my work questioning scientifically dubious vaccine mandate policies on the grounds of bodily autonomy and medical freedom."

illusionconsensus.com/p/how-covid-wa…

After much rumination, I finally decided to publish this new piece on how major media outlets I was writing for roundly rejected my work critical of Covid mandates.

Their justification? One example: "We're a pro-vaccine publication."

Journalism in 2023:

illusionconsensus.com/p/how-covid-wa… "One of the reasons I unexpectedly found myself in journalism was the real possibility of speaking truth to power, presenting radically novel perspectives, and challenging institutional orthodoxy.

Covid warped this aspiration.

Read and subscribe:

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My new essay with @DrJBhattacharya:

"If there is a consensus, science challenges it with new hypotheses, experiments, and critical thinking. Ironically, science advances bc it believes it has never arrived; consensus is the hallmark of dead science."

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"One of us is a college student with an unpremeditated career in alternative indie journalism. The other is a professor of health policy at Stanford University School of Medicine with an MD, a Ph.D. in economics, and decades of experience writing on infectious disease epidemiology. Despite the wealth of differences in our backgrounds and experiences, we converge on foundational scientific and ethical principles that public health authorities abandoned during the Covid pandemic. Principles like evidence-based medicine, informed consent, and the necessity of scientific debate serve as the bedrock on which the public can have confidence that science and public health work for the benefit of the people rather than regardless of it.

The illusion of scientific consensus throughout the COVID-19 pandemic led to disastrous policies, with lockdowns the primary example. It was clear even on the eve of the lockdowns in 2020 that the economic dislocation caused by them would throw tens of millions worldwide into food insecurity and deep poverty, which has indeed come to pass. It was clear that school closures – in some places lasting two years or longer – would devastate children's life opportunities and future health and well-being wherever they were implemented. The emerging picture of catastrophic learning loss, especially among poor and minority children (with fewer resources available to replace lost schooling), means that lockdowns will fuel generational poverty and inequality in the coming decades. And the empirical evidence from places like Sweden, which did not impose draconian lockdowns or close schools and which have among the lowest rate of all-cause excess death in Europe, suggests that lockdowns failed even narrowly to protect population health during the pandemic."

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MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT:

@DrJBhattacharya and I are launching our new podcast and newsletter dedicated to dismantling "The Illusion of Consensus" that the pandemic has strikingly revealed.

Every week we will be exposing media-driven "consensus" that obscures the truth.

[Thread] 1/ twitter.com/i/web/status/1… This "Illusion of Consensus" has been increasingly weaponized throughout the pandemic to justify scientifically disputable policy measures such as prolonged lockdowns, vaccine mandates, and school closures.

Journalist meets epidemiologist - subscribe:

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The Covid fatality risk by age in the Stanford doc’s new analysis:

Ages 0-19: 0.0003%
Ages 20-29: 0.003%
Ages 30-39: 0.011%
Ages 40-49: 0.035%

This was the grave risk which justified government coercion of experimental vaccines. My analysis of the paper: ravarora.substack.com/p/covid-was-ne…

https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/1608925993267339266

In my article on the infection fatality rate, I corresponded with both @DrJBhattacharya and @NAChristakis.

Christakis: Covid fatality rate is at least 0.5% - likely up to 1%

Bhattacharya: "Wow, that's really off...that's just wrong."

Who's right?

ravarora.substack.com/p/covid-was-ne…

A taboo question I investigated using data from Germany, Israel, and the U.S:

Why did cardiac injuries rise in young people in mid-2021 (not 2020)?

According to MIT researchers, rollout of mRNA vaccines and acute cardiac events are strongly correlated.

ravarora.substack.com/p/why-are-card… In the U.S, fatal heart attacks among adults 25-44 rose 30%. Older groups had far lower increases. This rise was far higher than the first year of the pandemic.

Researchers:

“The relative rise was most significant for the youngest group, ages 25 to 44.”

ravarora.substack.com/p/why-are-card…

"Experts" have dangerously misinformed the public about mRNA vaccines.

The risk of vaccine myocarditis is 61 times higher than Covid hospitalization in young men.

I spoke to a mother whose son was victimized by the reckless "safe and effective" campaign:ravarora.substack.com/p/the-truth-ab… With an assist from data analyst @ifihadastick, here are the comparative risks of vaccine myocarditis and Covid hospitalization in young men.

For men ages 18-24, even one mRNA vaccine dose carries higher risk than Covid does.

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The latest peer-reviewed research shows the risk of vaccine myocarditis far outweighs Covid risks for young men.

Is this an acceptable fact?

Age, risk, gender, and comorbidities all matter. Enough with the "everyone must get vaccinated" religious dogma.

ravarora.substack.com/p/the-truth-ab… New large-scale Nordic study finds even the 1st Pfizer dose to have a higher rate of myocarditis in young men 16 - 24.

Epidemiological community: will you recognize this and adjust your recommendations accordingly?

@TracyBethHoeg, @DrJBhattacharya have.

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