UK Statistics Regulator agrees with our recommendation to ignore any claims of vaccine safety based on ONS deaths by vaccination status data
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UK Statistics Regulator agrees with our recommendation to ignore any claims of vaccine safety based on ONS deaths by vaccination status data
They also agree that the ONS underestimates the true population proportion unvaccinated
On 11 November 2022 we wrote a formal letter of complaint to the Statistics Regulator about the Office for National Statistics (ONS) data on vaccine mortality. We said it was not fit for purpose:
Note that we concluded by saying:
The fact that these data are being used as continued justification for the efficacy and safety of the covid vaccines is therefore now a matter of national concern and scandal … In the meantime, we call for
1. the public withdrawal of the ONS dataset and
2. the retraction of any claims made by others that are based upon it.
We have now received the formal response and it is on the Regulator’s website.
See full response pdf.
While there are aspects of the reponse that we are unhappy with, the crucial point is that they have completely accepted our main recommendation because they say:
Many researchers and news organisations have made claims of vaccine efficacy and safety based on the ONS reports. We therefore now call on all those who have made such claims to publicly retract them.
It is also important to note that the Regulator agreed with our conclusions that the ONS population sample was biased - with those excluded much more likely to be unvaccinated.
We therefore call on all of those - including especially the BBC - who have used the ludicrously low estimates from the ONS to publicly withdraw all material based on these estimates, as they have been deliberately used to represent the unvaccinated as a tiny fringe minority.
The not-so-good news is that, as expected the Regulator has gone to extreme lengths to defend the integrity of the ONS. In particular, they are putting forward the ‘healthy vaccinee effect’ which we have previously dealt with and which we will be further dismantling in the next few weeks.
Our analysis of the most recent ONS report on deaths by vaccination status is here. That report was published in July 2022 with the most recent data up to May 2022. Despite promises to do so, the ONS had not provided any updates to it since.
UK Statistics Regulator agrees with our recommendation to ignore any claims of vaccine safety based on ONS deaths by vaccination status data
Hi Gary
Thanks. It is encouraging. They are hiding behind the healthy vaccine effect whilst providing zero evidence to support this assumption. And in tandem admitting that given their data is utter crap. So why did they bother with such a waste of taxpayer money?
We dont recieve any help from students or other academics I'm afraid. As Bret Weistein said 'academia selects for cowardice'. And on the current climate no one listens never mind step forward.
Martin
I recommend you read v2 of our paper and look at the appendix on the healthy vaxx effect. We argue that jab rates amongst the moribund were likely to be very high. An unhealthy vaccine effect if you will.
Next read the section dealing with ethnic participation rates. They were high, much higher the some assume. Also pakistani heritage etc have a better life expectancy than we've been actually been told.
We use evidence to support our assertions but are happy to be contradicted by better explanations supported by good evidence. We await the ONS doing this. They have the resources. We knock our stuff out on a part time basis with zero funding.
David vs Goliath. David won.
Martin