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In episode #179 ‘Science Strong and Fragile’ Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying discuss in depth our substack article on ‘the illusion of vaccine efficacy’ (starting at 31:30).
The episode is available on your favourite podcast platforms, including Rumble, Spotify and Apple podcasts.
On Rumble:
On Spotify:
On Apple:
The podcast also covers other aspects of vaccine safety & efficacy and the absence of genuine placebos in many, if not all, vaccine trials (not just covid vaccines).
Our original substack article can be found here:
The Dark Horse Podcast reports on 'the illusion of vaccine efficacy '
On the childhood vaccine topic, are you familiar with the book "Turtles All The Way Down"? It covers all the official literature, and shows among other things how none of the vaccines on the schedule were tested against a true saline placebo.
The chapter on polio is particularly fascinating / damming
https://www.amazon.com/Turtles-All-Way-Down-Vaccine/dp/9655981045
Oddly, a new vaccine for RSV for the 60+ years does use saline as a placebo in the control group - https://www.fda.gov/media/167805/download
I wonder how rare this is, and in this case is it to provide a 'see we do use saline when appropriate'. Two years ago I wrote to friends about how I saw what was going on with covid and did note that the two week shift would mess up the data for the statistics but did not note the crucial artefact that you work out. I have worked with PDEs, very little statistics. I cannot believe that the statisticians who did the efficacy analysis did not know this effect so have to assume it was deliberate. If any say they did not realise this, they should be out of a job immediately.