A bitter pill: Primodos
The forgotten Thalidomide

You are unlikely to be aware of Primodos, it was a hormone based pregnancy test.
A woman who was likely to be days or weeks pregnant would take a huge dose of hormones to test if she was pregnant. It is probably no surprise to you that it caused harm: serious birth defects & deaths of babies

@Malriel was kind enough to invite me to her @APPGHPTs event this week for the launch of their report as titled above.
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🧵There was a very important article by @HMcardleHT from @heraldscotland in October 2022
PUBLIC health experts ruled out any link between spikes in neonatal deaths and the Covid vaccine WITHOUT CHECKING whether any of the infants' mothers had received the jag during pregnancy.
👇 @HMcArdleHT @heraldscotland heraldscotland.com/news/23028843.…

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Are the British government captured by the pharmaceutical industry?
2 years ago Sir Robert Francis presented the Government with advice on compensation for infected blood, the victims were happy with the proposal.
@Factor8Campaign @Factor8Campaign Yesterday the government announced that Bayer Council Member, Sir Jonathan Montgomery will advise them on compensation. Bayer SUPPLIED INFECTED BLOOD PRODUCTS.

The government want us to pick a side on each topic that divides us & form opposing groups constantly in conflict.
We must stop this from happening.
I can never align with a single group as for me it's simple: EVERYONE's Human Rights must be respected & protected. I know at least 230k people agree with me as you signed this
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6077…

The pharmaceutical industry are constantly fined for miss-selling (misinformation).
Their products are known kill.
Why is it when people challenge their most lucrative products (medicines healthy people receive every few months) these people are labelled with misinformation? Pfizer's CEO @AlbertBourla was found to have lied (misinformation) about these products by @ABPI_UK in 2022 (he was miss-selling them to children), exactly 1 year after labelling people who spread misinformation ‘criminals’.

telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/11/2…
independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…

🧵 Most people are aware of Thalidomide, many are aware of Valproate, but there are several other drugs that have caused birth defects in children that are less well known including Debendox, Carbimazole and Primodos. Primodos families achieved a main house parliamentary debate on 7th September led by @YasminQureshiMP. Whilst the House was not well attended, every single MP in the Chamber was on the side of the families and little effort was made to defend Government and regulator action.

Brilliant speech during the Primodos debate @EstherMcVey1
Sadly, Primodos is not an isolated case, and we have seen many examples over the years of our regulatory bodies failing to keep patients safe from new medicines and medical devices. In 2013, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency listed 27 medicines that had been withdrawn on safety grounds. The average time they were on the market was 11 years. I wonder how many times we will allow history to repeat itself.

To @MHRAgovuk please could you explain why you have blocked @PerseusGroup_ & covid vaccine victims, along with those who have been harmed by other medicines?
You claim you are "Putting patients 1st", but you avoid engaging with those harmed by the medicines that you regulate.

https://twitter.com/hicksyalex/status/1687446673688023040?t=_ssvuMEWetCApL4wdljteQ&s=19

"@PeterHotez discusses how an antivaccine movement became a dangerous political campaign promoted by elected officials and amplified by news media, causing thousands of American deaths"
Personally I remember the elected officials & media promoting the vaccines through propaganda! https://t.co/KJPP968dLL

https://twitter.com/PeterHotez/status/1673286547536330753

There may be mixed opinions on the mRNA vaccines, but the government & media pushed the @AstraZeneca vaccine in the UK despite most of Europe suspending them.
Whose action killed people?
Surely if anything is "anti-science" it is ignoring risk, which resulted in deaths?

The Public Health Act 1984 allows the government to behave in a totalitarian manner & could enable supercharged Lockdowns.
Thank you for confirming @justinmadders

The public health act must be reformed, please sign here: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6345… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… For those of you know don't know how this works:
A single minister can implement emergency legislation if they personally believe it is urgent, with zero scrutiny.
It is supposed to be reviewed by parliament within 28 days, but this requirement was ignored for covid.

🧵A lot of people say "the science changed".
No it didn't.
There was very limited testing & data, so the government & regulators assumed the 💉 were safe, given the lack of evidence of harm.
The risks were obvious from day 1, as were the exaggerated benefits:
👇 The 💉 were approved to stop infection, not to reduce severity (this is the standard reason that vaccines are approved).
When it was clear that the vaccines did not stop infection, the tack changed to "reduction in hospitalizations" THIS IS NOT WHT THE VACCINES WERE APPROVED FOR!

Newspapers are finally talking about vaccine injury.
Why did it happen?
Why didn't they stop @AstraZeneca
earlier?
The regulator @MHRAgovuk failed to keep people safe
Petition: Launch a Public Inquiry into the approval process for covid-19 vaccines petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6281… Why don't you hear about it on TV?
@Ofcom restrict the media from criticising the government.
Petition: Public Inquiry into Ofcom's guidance on broadcast standards during the pandemic petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6330…

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On 26th March 2020 @MattHancock signed the The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) Regulations 2020, this placed the country into lockdown which restricted our freedoms & infringed on our Human Rights. He used the Urgency Procedure (Section 45R) of The Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 to implement the legislation without scrutiny, there was no impact assessment & MPs had no opportunity to review the legislation prior to implementation.

@MattHancock abused the Public Health Act to introduce the regulations to implement lockdown, don't let it happen again.
Petition: Require impact assessments and approval of MPs for all emergency legislation petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6345…
Write to your MP too
docs.google.com/document/d/1Eb… Petition: Public Inquiry into Ofcom's guidance on broadcast standards during the pandemic petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6330…
MP letter
docs.google.com/document/d/1IH…

If you had committed a large fraud, what would be the most effective way to silence whistle blowers?
Discredit them?
Label them?
Associate them with the far right & racism?
Remove their platform?
👇 Imagine if your industry had a track record of fraud?
Imagine if you had unprecedented resources due to excessive profits?
Imagine if corrupt governments were complicit?
Imagine if the media could be bought?
Imagine if social media could be controlled?
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3 pieces of unrelated news
-22nd June 2022: Moderna announced investment in UK manufacturing for vaccines
-24th June 2022: Moderna released trial report showing bivalent vaccines are worse than the original
-15th August 2022: @MHRAgovuk approved Moderna bivalent vaccines
👇 gov.uk/government/new…
medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
gov.uk/government/new…
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Currently a @HoCpetitions petition results in:
-A written response from the government at 10k signatures
-A debate to be CONSIDERED at 100k signatures
We need action!
Petition: Reform e-petitions - votes at 500k, no word limits, immediate publication petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6327… Petition: Launch a Public Inquiry into the approval process for covid-19 vaccines petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6281…

What is the key objective of a pharmaceutical company? Why do people trust them implicitly?

How was @pfizer covid vaccine approval converted from Conditional Marketing Approval, to full Marketing Approval?
Simply wait 2 years, absolutely nothing else.
"The change from CMA to MA was done following the second annual renewal of Comirnaty,
👇 where no new data emerged that would alter the benefit/risk for these products. The CHMP concluded that the clinical safety profile, as well as the efficacy of this product, may now be considered comprehensively characterised,
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The Petitions system is broken, a handful of MPs debate in a side chamber & no change happens.
Can we change that?
Petition: Reform e-petitions - votes at 500k, no word limits, immediate publication petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6327… Implement a new parliamentary petitions process that:
- requires a vote in the House of Commons on the request of petitions with over 500k signatures
- removes limits on the length of petitions
- publishes petitions immediately.

Unfortunately the government Petitions process is flawed because it only requires words, not action by the government, this seeks to address it:
Petition: Reform e-petitions - votes at 500k, no word limits, immediate publication petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6327… Note it asks for an MPs vote rather than a referendum, as I got feedback from both sides of the political spectrum that neither like referendums.