Ibeg all of you who were or will be offered an influenza vaccination to consider the content of this post when deciding whether to accept.
We have published posts presenting evidence that the influenza threat has been inflated.
The US authorities knew that fraud was essentially taking place, and they bent over backward to defend each other and cover up the scam.
Here’s the first part of the story of why I have suspected and then known about this for at least 25 years.
In the mid-1990s, as the Cochrane Collaboration was starting, some of us in its Acute Respiratory Infection Group started writing protocols for Cochrane reviews on the topics that interested us (Cochrane being then a volunteer bottom-up organisation).
In my case, it was influenza and other respiratory agents. So, we wrote protocols and published reviews on the effects (effectiveness and harms) of influenza vaccines (all types of inactivated and live attenuated) on children, adults, asthmatics, the elderly, and those who care for the elderly.
We initially looked only at randomised controlled trials and then bowed to pressure to include observational data. The latter were quickly ditched to preserve our sanity. That’s because observational data, in this case, told you everything and its opposite—not a new story.
Hellbound and Down 