The Lancet has become a laughing stock, plus more about the Israeli government hurting their own Jewish citizens

Governments around the world have sold their souls to the World Economic Forum and are acting against the best interests of their populations. 😰

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Part 1: I came across this piece of breaking news which has gone viral and (deservedly) makes the formerly respected medical journal Lancet look particularly foolish. It fits right in with the other article I published yesterday that highlighted the untruthfulness of the New England Journal of Medicine.

The Lancet has become a laughing stock

By Norman Fenton and Martin Neil, January 14

In summary:

• On 6 May 2021 The Lancet published a blatantly flawed study of the effectiveness of the Pfizer covid vaccine on the population of Israel, claiming it was 95% effective.

• On 17 May 2021 we submitted a rapid response 250 word letter explaining why the study was flawed.

• After an initial response saying they would ask the authors for a response to our letter we heard nothing until 20 months later.

• On 8 January 2023 we got an email out of the blue from The Lancet Senior Editor Josefine Gibson apologising for never having got back to us about the letter, saying that they had asked the lead author Dr Sharon Alroy-Preis (SA-P) to respond to our letter but, because she did not provide any formal response, they have decided not to publish our letter.

• We tweeted The Lancet's response and within 24 hours it got over one million impressions. We also published a substack articlehighlighting the fact we were now aware of additional problems with the paper relating to SA-P’s relationship with Pfizer.

• On 10 January 2023 we got an unsolicited email from Josefine Gibson (which we can only assume was a result of the reputation hit they got from our tweet) saying “Thank you for bringing your letter from May 2021 back to our attention. We are looking into next steps and will get back to you as soon as we can.”

• On 11 January 2023 (at 10:58) we sent an email to The Lancet's Editor-in-Chief Richard Horton directing him to our substack article (which highlighted these new problems relating to SA-P's relationship with Pfizer) stating that The Lancet was clearly taking a credibility hit surrounding the publication of the Israel-Pfizer study and its response to criticisms of it.

• On 11 January 2023 (at 11:21) we got an email from Josefine Gibson apologising for the ‘sub standard experience’ we had with The Lancet. She said that, after discussing it with Horton, they were now inviting us to publish the original letter or an update to it, suggesting the update ‘reflect more current experience with the vaccine’.

• On 12 January 2023 we submitted our updated letter (of an agreed 350 words).

• On 13 January 2023 we got a response from Josefine Gibson saying they had decided against publishing the letter.

Here is the full narrative and January 2023 correspondence in date order (personal details redacted):

1. The ‘out of the blue’ email from The Lancet on 8 Jan (20 months after we submitted our original letter which can be read in this substack article):

2. The tweet on 6 Jan after receiving the email:

3. Our substack article on 10 Jan highlighting the new issues relating to lead author Sharon Alroy-Preis (SA-P):

The curious case of Dr Sharon Alroy-Preis and the claims of safety and effectiveness of the Pfizer vaccine

4. The email from Josefine Gibson on 10 Jan (curious and ‘unsolicited’ because we had not responded to The Lancet's ‘rejection’ on 8 January):

4. The email sent to Richard Horton on 11 Jan at 10:58:

6. The response we got from Josefine Gibson on 11 Jan at 11:21:

7. Our response:

8. Lancet agreement to a 350-word new letter with limit of 5 references:

9. Our letter submitted on 12 Jan (349 words):

Misleading Claims in study of Pfizer vaccine effectiveness

Norman Fenton and Martin Neil, 12 Jan 2023

An article about Israel’s experience with the Pfizer covid-19 vaccine was published in The Lancet in May 2021, [1]. We wrote a response letter, [2], explaining why its claim of 95% effectiveness was exaggerated, pointing out that the study failed to adjust for a declining infection rate, and for the very different testing protocols applied to vaccinated versus unvaccinated people. The study also ignored all covid cases reported for people who had received either just a single or a second dose less than seven days previously; such people were not considered ‘fully vaccinated’, inevitably leading to an exaggeration of vaccine effectiveness [3].

These concerns expressed 20 months ago, have been borne out by data confirming how exaggerated the effectiveness claim was.

The Lancet sent our letter to the lead author of the study, Sharon Alroy-Preis (SA-P), for comment but she did not respond to the criticisms, so the Lancet did not publish it.

We have further concerns about the integrity of the article. SA-P was not among the 8 of 15 authors who declared holding share and stock options in Pfizer; she also declared no conflict of interest. Yet, she is Head of Public Health Services at the Israeli Ministry of Health (IMOH) during the period when Israel became the ‘laboratory for Pfizer’ [4]. The relationship between Pfizer and the IMOH (starting 6 Jan 2021, four months before the Lancet article was published) is laid out in their collaboration agreement [5] which makes clear results cannot be made public without both parties’ approval, and names SA-P as the IMOH appointee responsible for managing this relationship with Pfizer.

The Lancet article provided no information about the vaccine’s adverse reactions which we now know are substantial. In her presentation to the FDA expert committee about the booster, SA-P claimed Israel monitors safety closely, whereas we now know they did not have a functioning system until the end of 2021 [4].

Hence, we feel that the paper’s findings – which led many to believe the Pfizer vaccine was extremely safe and effective - are severely compromised and that the article should be retracted.

References

[1] Haas et al: “Impact and effectiveness of mRNA BNT162b2 vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 infections and COVID-19 cases, hospitalisations, and deaths following a nationwide vaccination campaign in Israel: an observational study using national surveillance data” https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)00947-8

[2] Fenton NE and Neil M “Is the Pfizer vaccine as effective as claimed?”, 17 May 2021. https://wherearethenumbers.substack.com/important-caveats-to-pfizer-vaccine

[3] Neil M, Fenton N, Smalley J., Craig C., Guetzkow J., McLachlan S., Rose, J. Latest statistics on England mortality data suggest systematic mis-categorisation of vaccine status and uncertain effectiveness of Covid-19 vaccination, December 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.14176.20483

[4] Fenton NE and Neil M, “The curious case of Dr Sharon Alroy-Preis and the claims of safety and effectiveness of the Pfizer vaccine”.

The curious case of Dr Sharon Alroy-Preis and the claims of safety and effectiveness of the Pfizer vaccine

[5] Real-world epidemiological evidence collaboration agreement between the Israeli Ministry of Health, acting on behalf of the State of Israel and Pfizer Inc, 6 Jan 2021. https://govextra.gov.il/media/30806/11221-moh-pfizer-collaboration-agreement-redacted.pdf

10. The Lancet's rejection of the letter, they invited, on 13 January:

So, there you have it. We are dubbed misinformation spreaders because The Lancet have unique access to the truth, and furthermore the integrity of the Israeli trial data is placed beyond question even though the Israeli public health apparatchik, SA-P, who is supposed to be independent of corporate interests, is legally bound to publish results approved by Pfizer.

Of course, our experience is just one of many cases of corruption by The Lancet.

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Link to original article:

The Lancet has become a laughing stock

Part 2:

Israel Health Ministry concealed, manipulated vaccine injury data, say leaked documents | Frontline News

'No one has been monitoring the side effects'

Posted by Yudi Sherman, January 9

Israel’s Health Ministry last year suppressed and manipulated vital vaccine injury data ahead of its decision to vaccinate 5–11-year-old children, according to a June 2022 letter released Sunday by risk communication researcher and University of Haifa and Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya in Israel teaching fellow Dr. Yaffa Shir-Raz. 

The letter, addressed to the Health Ministry by Shamir Hospital’s Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology Head Professor Mati Berkowitz, summarized a meeting that took place just days earlier between himself and senior Health Ministry officials. 

Prof. Berkowitz had been hired by the ministry to study adverse events from the COVID shots reported in the government’s newly functional system. The pediatric specialist hired a specialized team for the project, which began in January 2022. 

The team identified 22 categories of adverse events, including safety signals not listed by Pfizer such as neurological side effects, tinnitus and others. 

The researchers also found that there were many long-term adverse reactions; in 50% of the reports in which duration was mentioned at all, the side effect lasted longer than six months. 

Then there were several findings of rechallenges, which is when the side effect resolves itself but returns after another dose. Prof. Berkowitz told Health Ministry officials that a rechallenge makes the causality between the vaccine and the adverse event “definitive”. 

Prof. Berkowitz makes clear in his letter that he is plagued with concern about his findings. One of his concerns was the fact that 150 cases of emergency visits and/or hospitalizations following the COVID injections were not reported to the expert committee tasked with recommending the shots for children. In other words, the committee that met in late June and pushed for 5–11-year-old children to be injected with the Pfizer shots had not seen crucial data about vaccine injuries. 

“They now know about people — real people — who were seriously injured from the vaccine, and people who suffered rechallenges and they are not following them up, treating them or compensating them,” Dr. Shir-Raz told Frontline News. “We know that from this letter there are over 150 reports on hospitalizations in adults, but no one has analyzed those cases.” 

Another of Prof. Berkowitz’s concerns was that he hadn’t been paid. Despite having hired a dedicated unit for the research, the ministry neither signed a contract with him nor paid him for his work over the last six months. For that reason, Prof. Berkowitz concluded in bold lettering, he was pausing the project pending receipt of payment from the Health Ministry. 

“That means that since June actually — again, no one has been monitoring the side effects,” Dr. Shir-Raz added. “They might have the reports, but no one is analyzing them or doing anything with them, so they are, again, buried with the Ministry of Health.” 

A leaked Zoom recording of the June 5th meeting between the researchers and Health Ministry officials referenced in the letter revealed that some types of side effects reported to the ministry’s system did not find their way into the ministry’s public report or the published literature on the vaccine’s adverse events or the vaccine’s package insert. 

Furthermore, the researchers were given extremely limited data. The smallest of Israel’s five HMOs, Meuhedet, was the only one to provide Prof. Berkowitz’s team with data on adverse events. The other four refused. The Health Ministry compared those adverse events to all doses administered throughout the pandemic, even though only about 10% of all doses were administered during the period of the study. 

The ministry did not disclose in its report to the public that the adverse event reports came from only one HMO. 

(BW: Do you see what they did? They artificially inflated the denominator. They painted the events given to Professor Berkowitz to study as the adverse results of all the shots given to whole country over the entire vaccination period.

But in actuality the period of time he studied - even with all the terrible results he found - was only a slice of time in which 10 percent of the country’s shots were received. And he was only given a small part of the population to study.

They give a denominator of all the shots received in the country to make it appear that adverse events are much rarer then they are.

To illustrate - and these are made-up numbers I’m guesstimating purely for the sake of example, because I don’t have access to the data - by faking a larger denominator, they could have made a 1 in 100 chance of dying very soon after the covid shot appear to be only a 1 in 8,000 chance.)

Furthermore, the ministry compared adverse events affecting only women, like menstrual side effects, to the number of doses given to both women and men, further diluting the number of vaccine injuries. 

The Health Ministry’s report also omitted rechallenge data. 

These and other alarming data manipulations led Prof. Berkowitz to suggest that the ministry begin thinking about legal consequences. 

“Here we will need to think about this medico-legally,” Prof. Berkowitz told ministry officials. “Why? Because, for not a few side effects, we said ‘OK, it exists and there’s a report, but please get vaccinated [anyway].’ So we need to think about how to write it and present it in the correct way, so they won’t come afterwards with lawsuits: ‘Wait a second, you said it would go away and it’s OK to get vaccinated, now look what happened to me.’” 

The research team begged Health Ministry officials to publish the reports and share them with the Health Ministry's head of public health services Dr. Sharon Alroy-Preis, who brokered Israel's vaccine agreement with Pfizer, and Health Ministry Director-General Nachman Ash. 

The Health Ministry officials present at the meeting, including Epidemiology Division Director Dr. Emilia Anis, expressed their appreciation for Prof. Berkowitz’s work and appeared eager to relay the report’s findings to Dr. Alroy-Preis and Director-General Ash. 

But that appears to be the last time the Health Ministry engaged with Prof. Berkowitz or used his services. 

During a presentation of the Health Ministry’s Zoom meeting recording, MIT Operations Management Professor and Leaders for Global Operations Program Director Retsef Levi said he believes the Health Ministry officials did indeed pass on Prof. Berkowitz’s report to the ministry’s decision makers along with Prof. Berkowitz’s suggestions, but the data were inconvenient for the ministry. If the ministry were to take seriously the damning reports of vaccine-induced side effects, it could jeopardize its agreement with Pfizer.

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There are two embedded rumble videos in the original article which didn’t copy here. Please see this link to the original article to view them:

https://www.frontline.news/post/israel-health-ministry-concealed-manipulated-vaccine-injury-data-say-leaked-documents

Perhaps when your friends and family who think the shots are safe will read this article, it’ll make them rethink “vaccinating” their kids. I hope!