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With Kennedy on Board, This is What a Trump Win Will Mean for Democrats

Popular Rationalism • 1367 implied HN points • 01 Nov 24
🇺🇸 U.S. Politics Vaccine Safety
  1. A Trump win could force the Democratic Party to rethink its ties with the pharmaceutical industry. This may lead to more transparency and accountability in health policies.
  2. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is seen as a potential leader who could push for a health agenda focused on questioning the status quo and prioritizing public health over profit.
  3. The public is becoming more aware of vaccine safety issues, and this awareness may change how health policies are formed and implemented in the future.

Why do public health bureaucrats keep pushing flu shots on kids?

Unreported Truths • 34 implied HN points • 26 Mar 26
🏥 Health Politics Vaccine Safety
  1. Flu shots for young children give only partial, short-lived protection against lab-confirmed influenza and usually don't reduce overall respiratory illness, so benefits are limited and require yearly repeats.
  2. Trials have reported rare but serious adverse events and many studies lack true placebo controls, leaving the true short- and long-term risks of repeated annual vaccination starting in infancy unclear.
  3. Given the modest benefits and uncertain risks, strong public-health pressure to vaccinate all healthy kids against flu is questionable and should be re-evaluated to rebuild parental trust.

Excess deaths in Australia cannot be explained by any other mechanism other than the COVID shots

Steve Kirsch's newsletter • 4 implied HN points • 13 Mar 26
🏥 Health Politics Vaccine Safety
  1. A statistical analysis of several Australian regions found excess deaths began right after COVID vaccine rollouts, and the timing and age patterns are said to not match the official explanations.
  2. Analyses of other national records claim there was no clear mortality or hospitalization benefit from the vaccines, and frailty-matched comparisons reportedly show similar death rates for vaccinated and unvaccinated groups.
  3. Public health authorities and official reports largely avoided treating vaccines as a possible cause or quantifying lives saved or lost, while only a few officials publicly raised these concerns.

New Study Shows Negative COVID Vaccine Efficacy For Kids, Elevated Risk Of Myocarditis

Unmasked • 37 implied HN points • 21 Mar 26
🏥 Health Politics Vaccine Safety
  1. Public health officials and media pushed strong messaging that encouraged parents to vaccinate children by emphasizing COVID risks and downplaying natural immunity.
  2. A new study is said to show negative COVID vaccine efficacy for kids and an increased risk of myocarditis, suggesting the shots may have underperformed in that age group.
  3. Officials largely maintained the same pandemic policies even after vaccines underperformed in adults, which likely led to unnecessary child vaccinations and potential harms.

The final humiliation for everyone who pushed Covid jabs on kids

Unreported Truths • 80 implied HN points • 18 Mar 26
🏥 Health Politics Vaccine Safety
  1. A British study found Pfizer mRNA shots were only marginally effective at reducing COVID in 12–15 year olds and showed no reduction in hospital visits for 5–11 year olds over the months studied.
  2. Vaccinated teens and children had cases of myocarditis and pericarditis and some non-COVID deaths that were not seen in unvaccinated peers, and younger vaccinated kids had about 5% more ER visits and 10% more hospitalizations overall.
  3. These results have deepened parental distrust of public health officials who promoted the shots, making it harder for authorities to maintain confidence in other vaccine programs.
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Is Omitting Data from a COVID-19 Study Conclusion a Lie?

Who is Robert Malone • 15 implied HN points • 19 Mar 26
🏥 Health Politics Vaccine Safety
  1. Severe COVID outcomes in children were already very rare, and vaccination provided only modest, short‑lived protection; with widespread prior infection and milder variants today, the marginal benefit is likely smaller.
  2. Cardiac inflammation (myocarditis/pericarditis) appeared only in vaccinated children in the data; these events are rare but measurable, and follow‑up imaging shows persistent abnormalities in a notable fraction.
  3. Study framing and conclusions can emphasize small benefits while softening harms, so important safety signals may be buried in tables rather than highlighted; risk–benefit assessments should be re‑evaluated transparently as baseline risk changes.

Forensic analysis of 38 subject deaths shared by Corinne Michels Writer Science Rules by Corinne Michels, found evidence of an over 3.7-fold increase in number of deaths due to cardiovascular events

Alexander News Network -Dr. Paul Elias Alexander's substack • 1572 implied HN points • 25 Jan 24
🏥 Health Politics Vaccine Safety
  1. Forensic analysis found a 3.7-fold increase in deaths due to cardiovascular events in Pfizer vaccinated individuals compared to placebo.
  2. The adverse event signal was not reported by Pfizer/BioNTech.
  3. Inconsistencies were found in subject data reported in the study and publications by Pfizer/BioNTech trial site administrators.

Israel FOIA data shows over a 500X increase in rate of heart attacks in teens on the day of their COVID shot. So they deleted the records. No one in government calls for an investigation.

Steve Kirsch's newsletter • 9 implied HN points • 26 Feb 26
🏥 Health Politics Vaccine Safety
  1. FOIA records from Israel reportedly show a large, concentrated increase in acute myocardial infarction (heart attack) codes among teenagers that occurred on the same day as their COVID vaccination, with the author citing a conservative 500Ă— rise.
  2. The HMO that supplied the data now says those adverse-event records no longer exist, suggesting deletions or technical loss, and no Israeli officials have publicly demanded a full investigation or accountability for the missing records.
  3. Major mainstream media and medical authorities have not widely covered or investigated these claims, and critics argue the data should be independently audited and Clalit’s records treated as unreliable until a public explanation is provided.

CDC Now Refusing New COVID Vaccine Adverse Event Reports in Its V-Safe Program

COVID Reason • 2002 implied HN points • 24 Aug 23
🏥 Health & Wellness Vaccine Safety
  1. CDC has stopped collecting adverse event reports for COVID vaccines on its V-safe website, directing users to the FDA's VAERS website instead.
  2. CDC not accepting new safety reports on potentially risky mRNA Covid-19 injections, raising concerns about monitoring safety of a new technology.
  3. Contrastingly, NHTSA continues to accept safety reports for a 30-year-old vehicle, highlighting the importance of ongoing safety data collection.

2.7 million Spanish children and teenagers. ZERO Covid deaths.

Unreported Truths • 93 implied HN points • 03 Jan 26
🏥 Health Politics Vaccine Safety
  1. A large Spanish study of 2.7 million children and teenagers reported zero Covid deaths from mid-2021 through the end of 2022.
  2. The study found little difference in hospitalizations for unvaccinated under‑12s and estimated about 38,000 adolescent mRNA shots were needed to prevent one Covid hospitalization, leading to the claim that mRNA vaccines for kids are unnecessary and potentially risky.
  3. The article argues US child Covid death totals are likely overstated because they don’t always distinguish deaths "with" versus "from" Covid, and it criticizes public health agencies for continuing to promote mRNA shots for children.

ACIP at a Historic Turning Point

Injecting Freedom • 72 implied HN points • 11 Dec 25
🏥 Health Politics Vaccine Safety
  1. Clinical trials used to license childhood vaccines matter a lot because ACIP often recommends those vaccines soon after licensure.
  2. There is a lack of post-licensure safety data and current safety monitoring isn't adequate, so more thorough follow-up is needed after vaccines are approved.
  3. ACIP has a historic opportunity to recommit to vaccine safety and to more carefully weigh efficacy issues when making its vaccine schedule recommendations.

The Atlantic admits Covid shots killed kids - five years too late

Unreported Truths • 75 implied HN points • 11 Dec 25
🏥 Health Politics Vaccine Safety
  1. Some mainstream outlets and officials have finally acknowledged that mRNA COVID vaccines may have caused deaths among children, years after the shots were rolled out.
  2. Vaccine makers and some journals reportedly withheld or downplayed negative trial results and side effects, delaying proper scrutiny of mRNA vaccine risks.
  3. That handling has eroded public trust in medicine and prompted calls for accountability and stricter vaccine approval standards.

Prescription for Corruption: How the AAP’s Vaccine Empire Faces a Legal Reckoning

Who is Robert Malone • 21 implied HN points • 27 Jan 26
🏥 Health Politics Vaccine Safety
  1. Lawsuits allege that the AAP, CDC, and related actors ran a coordinated scheme to mislead the public about vaccine safety, claiming data suppression and conflicts of interest under RICO-style accusations.
  2. Critics argue the childhood vaccine schedule lacks comprehensive cumulative safety studies and say ingredients like adjuvants or multiple simultaneous shots could contribute to immune or long-term health problems, with adverse events underinvestigated.
  3. The legal fights and demands for transparency risk eroding public trust in pediatric institutions and could drive major policy, legal, and disclosure changes around vaccine recommendations and conflicts of interest.

It is unethical to mandate kids to get the COVID shot. It's easy to show with math.

Steve Kirsch's newsletter • 6 implied HN points • 12 Feb 26
🏥 Health Politics Vaccine Safety
  1. Because COVID deaths in people under 20 are extremely rare, proving a vaccine is safer than the disease would require an enormous randomized trial—about 7.5 million children followed for a year—which was never done.
  2. Without that level of evidence, recommending or mandating the vaccines for healthy children lacked the necessary statistical and ethical justification and represents a failure of regulatory oversight.
  3. Some countries quietly scaled back or restricted pediatric vaccine recommendations, but authorities largely avoided openly admitting or taking accountability for the earlier decisions.

Did the Pfizer Trial Show the Vaccine Increases Heart Disease Deaths?

Harnessing the Power of Nutrients • 2256 implied HN points • 19 Feb 22
🏥 Health Politics Vaccine Safety
  1. The Pfizer trial did not show a statistically significant increase in all-cause mortality or cardiac mortality among vaccinated individuals
  2. The trial would have needed to be longer for significant differences to show, suggesting the need for longer trials in vaccine studies
  3. It's important to consider all possible risks found in trials seriously, even when statistically insignificant, and to approach vaccine research with caution

Never Forget What They Told Us About COVID Vaccines

Unmasked • 48 implied HN points • 13 Dec 25
🏥 Health Politics Vaccine Safety
  1. A recent memo says researchers found a link between COVID vaccines and the deaths of at least ten children and alleges earlier officials either hid or didn’t look for that link.
  2. Early experts and officials strongly claimed vaccines would stop transmission or even eliminate the virus, but those promises didn’t hold up and the public messaging shifted over time.
  3. Given these changing claims and possible concealment, people should do their own due diligence, ask questions, and demand transparency when making vaccine decisions.

Universal Repeated mRNA Boosting Was (and is) Bad Policy

Who is Robert Malone • 12 implied HN points • 03 Feb 26
🏥 Health Politics Vaccine Safety
  1. Repeated, frequent mRNA boosters push the immune system toward a tolerance-style response (higher IL-10 and IgG4), so antibodies still bind the virus but trigger less inflammation and cell-killing—this helps prevent severe illness but does not reliably stop infection or spread.
  2. A one-size-fits-all policy of universal, frequent boosting was adopted without solid prospective evidence or proper timing studies, producing predictable immune 'signal stacking'; booster strategies should be risk-stratified, experimentally timed, and driven by shared decision-making.
  3. The tolerance-leaning immune shift from repeated boosting could affect responses to other vaccines and infections and might impair anti-tumor immune surveillance in some contexts, so booster spacing and long-term consequences warrant careful study.

Breaking: Children’s Health Defense Hits AAP With RICO Suit Over Fraudulent Vaccine Safety Claims

Who is Robert Malone • 17 implied HN points • 22 Jan 26
🏥 Health Politics Vaccine Safety
  1. Children’s Health Defense filed a federal RICO lawsuit accusing the American Academy of Pediatrics of running a decades‑long scheme to promote the childhood vaccine schedule, alleging undisclosed financial ties to vaccine makers and incentives for pediatricians to hit high vaccination rates.
  2. The plaintiffs include parents who say their children were injured or died after routine vaccinations and doctors who say they were professionally punished for questioning AAP guidance; the complaint alleges suppression of contrary research and reliance on a theoretical 2002 paper to justify the schedule.
  3. The lawsuit seeks monetary damages and court orders forcing the AAP to disclose gaps in safety testing and stop making unqualified vaccine‑safety claims, and it compares the AAP’s conduct to Big Tobacco while highlighting ongoing legal battles over recent vaccine policy changes.

Sunday Strip: Not all Fats are the Same

Who is Robert Malone • 37 implied HN points • 14 Dec 25
🏥 Health Politics Vaccine Safety
  1. Not all fats are the same, so different kinds should be recognized and treated differently when thinking about diet and health.
  2. There is concern that aluminum salts used as vaccine adjuvants can be toxic in a dose-dependent way, and that multiple childhood vaccines might create cumulative exposure that needs reevaluation.
  3. Private medical claims about individuals should not be assumed true or shared without public confirmation, and such information deserves cautious handling.

Kennedy Unchained

Who is Robert Malone • 35 implied HN points • 07 Dec 25
🏥 Health Politics Vaccine Safety
  1. A presidential directive and HHS authority now open the door to reviewing and aligning U.S. childhood vaccine recommendations with international best practices, meaning federal vaccine policy could be changed.
  2. The ACIP voted to make Hepatitis B birth-dose decisions for infants of HepB-negative mothers an individualized parent–provider choice and to encourage post-vaccination antibody testing to guide whether boosters are needed, with insurers covering the tests.
  3. These actions threaten established vaccine-industry and academic-government practices, shift power and revenue away from manufacturers, and have triggered strong controversy and backlash.

Revised HHS Childhood Vax Schedule Announced

Who is Robert Malone • 17 implied HN points • 05 Jan 26
🏥 Health Politics Vaccine Safety
  1. The CDC narrowed universal childhood vaccine recommendations to a core set of consensus vaccines (about ten plus chickenpox) and reclassified others—like flu, rotavirus, RSV, hepatitis A, and some meningococcal vaccines—for high‑risk groups or shared clinical decision‑making to align more with peer nations.
  2. All vaccines will remain available and fully covered by ACA and federal programs so families won’t pay out of pocket, and the new schedule emphasizes flexibility and informed choice over broad mandates.
  3. The shift aims to rebuild public trust and strengthen safety evidence by reducing early‑life vaccine load where possible, promoting individualized decisions, and funding more rigorous trials and long‑term safety studies.

Pathogenic Priming and Influenza Vaccination

Who is Robert Malone • 13 implied HN points • 02 Jan 26
🏥 Health Politics Vaccine Safety
  1. The immune system’s first flu exposure creates a lasting memory that biases future responses, so it often reactivates old antibodies instead of making new ones against changed strains.
  2. That imprinting can help protect against related viruses but also locks in an “epitope hierarchy” where memory B cells outcompete naïve cells, reducing adaptability and sometimes lowering vaccine effectiveness or increasing illness with drifted strains.
  3. Relying on yearly strain-specific shots can reinforce this bias, so vaccine strategies that target conserved viral parts, use alternative prime‑boost approaches or adjuvants, or reduce frequent boosting are needed to restore broader, more flexible immunity.

Stanford led study: at least 20,000 global deaths from COVID jabs

Who is Robert Malone • 16 implied HN points • 23 Dec 25
🏥 Health Politics Vaccine Safety
  1. COVID-19 vaccination likely prevented many deaths worldwide (central estimate ~2.5 million), but that figure is model-based and very sensitive to key assumptions.
  2. Estimates put vaccine-associated deaths on the order of tens of thousands globally (roughly ~20,000; range ~16,000–48,000), so harms are probably much smaller than benefits overall but remain highly uncertain.
  3. The mortality benefit was overwhelmingly concentrated in people aged 60 and older, with children and young adults receiving minimal benefit, suggesting vaccination strategies should account for age-specific risks and benefits.

KCOR results on the Japan record level data shows the same harm pattern as the Czech data

Steve Kirsch's newsletter • 6 implied HN points • 15 Jan 26
🏥 Health Politics Vaccine Safety
  1. KCOR analysis of Japan and Czech record-level data shows a consistent pattern where recently vaccinated cohorts have higher all-cause mortality than unvaccinated cohorts.
  2. The pattern appears dose-dependent, with second doses linked to higher mortality than first, and KCOR claims to avoid healthy‑vaccinee bias by using fixed enrollment cohorts and adjusting in mortality space rather than 1:1 matching.
  3. The stated conclusion is that COVID vaccines increased the net risk of death, mainstream proponents are described as unwilling to engage with the data, and an open public debate is demanded to resolve the disagreement.

Bombshell Rasmussen Survey Released

Who is Robert Malone • 19 implied HN points • 21 Nov 25
🏥 Health Politics Vaccine Safety
  1. About 36% of people who got the COVID vaccine report side effects. This means many felt some impact after receiving it.
  2. Many Americans think the vaccine could have caused serious health problems and even deaths. This shows there's confusion and concern among the public.
  3. There's a big difference between what the public believes about vaccine side effects and what health organizations report. This disconnect needs to be addressed.

Dr. Arthur Caplan: Will you help us stop the disinformation crisis?

Steve Kirsch's newsletter • 6 implied HN points • 07 Jan 26
🏥 Health Politics Vaccine Safety
  1. Some record-level studies and analyses are claimed to show that childhood vaccinations do not reduce mortality and may be linked to higher infant deaths or SIDS, challenging mainstream claims that vaccines clearly save lives.
  2. Critics contend that many experts who warn about vaccine disinformation avoid open public debates with qualified dissenting voices, and a public challenge is being made to force that discussion.
  3. Open, transparent public debate is presented as the best way to stop disinformation and let people judge who is telling the truth.

Big Data, Small Payoff: Madrid Study Finds Pediatric mRNA Vaccine Benefits Thin—and Safety Questions Still Linger

Who is Robert Malone • 9 implied HN points • 31 Dec 25
🏥 Health Politics Vaccine Safety
  1. mRNA COVID-19 vaccines cut hospitalizations by only a few cases per 100,000 children, with almost no measurable benefit in 6–11-year-olds and a modest reduction in 12–17-year-olds.
  2. Serious outcomes like hospitalizations, MIS‑C, and myocarditis were rare overall, and while heart inflammation was uncommon, it was not clearly lower in vaccinated adolescents.
  3. Because absolute benefits are tiny and uncertainty is wide, the findings support shifting away from universal pediatric vaccination toward individualized, risk‑based recommendations.

The peer-review literature says science should not run from public challenges; here's a framework for fair discussions

Steve Kirsch's newsletter • 5 implied HN points • 01 Jan 26
🔬 Science Vaccine Safety
  1. Experts should engage in public, evidence-based debate instead of avoiding challenges. Refusing to debate undermines scientific norms and public trust.
  2. A fair public debate needs a narrow question, balanced credentialed panels with conflict disclosures, a strict evidence-first format, and an independent post-debate audit, with all data and the full record publicly archived. Neutral funding and platform transparency are also required.
  3. Relying only on closed peer review and avoiding open scrutiny weakens credibility. Reforming peer review and embracing transparent, verifiable debates would better hold researchers accountable and inform the public.

I just offered Paul Offit $1M to have a public debate on COVID vaccine safety for 1 hour

Steve Kirsch's newsletter • 8 implied HN points • 10 Dec 25
🏥 Health Politics Vaccine Safety
  1. A large cash offer was made to a prominent vaccine expert to do a public one-hour debate on COVID vaccine safety.
  2. That offer was declined, and another high-profile vaccine scientist also previously turned down a multimillion-dollar debate offer.
  3. Those refusals are presented as evidence that the experts either lack the data or are avoiding scrutiny, and this is used to suggest their claims about vaccine safety should be questioned.

Former CDC Director Robert Redfield has called for the mRNA shots to be pulled. He'll be on VSRF live tomorrow to talk about it.

Steve Kirsch's newsletter • 6 implied HN points • 10 Dec 25
🏥 Health Politics Vaccine Safety
  1. Former CDC Director Robert Redfield is publicly calling for COVID mRNA vaccines to be pulled.
  2. He claims the CDC knew about vaccine harms very early and has written a book outlining his concerns.
  3. He will discuss these claims and his book live on VSRF this Thursday at 7pm Eastern.

To Paul Offit: An invitation to a public, evidence-bounded discussion

Steve Kirsch's newsletter • 4 implied HN points • 19 Dec 25
🏥 Health Politics Vaccine Safety
  1. A focused public discussion is proposed to answer one narrow question: whether mRNA COVID-19 vaccines showed a clear net mortality benefit based on peer-reviewed studies.
  2. The discussion would be strictly evidence-bounded and structured: 60 minutes, only peer-reviewed papers (each side submits up to three in advance), materials shared 14 days before, equal talk time, and a method-focused review of assumptions and bias.
  3. To encourage participation and transparency, a charitable donation would be offered to the invited expert, the session and referenced materials would be made public, and an alternative expert is acceptable if the invitee declines.

Take RFK Jr seriously: what RFK Jr. gets right and wrong

Vinay Prasad's Observations and Thoughts • 288 implied HN points • 18 Jun 23
🏥 Health Politics Vaccine Safety
  1. RFK Jr. has valid points about corporate influence in politics and government corruption.
  2. RFK Jr. highlights failures in Covid-19 policies such as lockdowns and vaccine mandates.
  3. RFK Jr. advocates for stricter oversight on vaccine safety and criticizes the close relationship between FDA and pharmaceutical companies.

UK first-tier tribunal rules that full data transparency is bad for public health so it's OK for the UKHSA to hide the public data from the public

Steve Kirsch's newsletter • 5 implied HN points • 20 Nov 25
🇺🇸 U.S. Politics Vaccine Safety
  1. The tribunal decided that full transparency about vaccine data could harm public health, so it's okay for the UK health agency to keep some data hidden.
  2. The reasons given for not releasing the data, like preventing misinformation, actually undermine the principles of transparency and accountability in government.
  3. Claiming that it would take decades to process the data is seen as a weak excuse to avoid scrutiny, showing a preference for protecting the institution over being honest with the public.

Pfizer's Delayed Myocarditis Study

Who is Robert Malone • 20 implied HN points • 02 Jul 25
🏥 Health Politics Vaccine Safety
  1. Pfizer's study on myocarditis in kids is facing challenges with enrollment, making it hard to gather enough participants. This means the study could take longer to finish than expected.
  2. The lengthy five-year follow-up in the study is needed to thoroughly check for any long-term health effects. This is important for understanding the consequences of myocarditis better.
  3. There's no solid evidence that Pfizer is hiding data or being unethical; the delays seem to be due to the difficulty of conducting a rigorous study.

Trump's top healthcare priority must be repealing Big Pharma's legal immunity for vaccines

Unreported Truths • 60 implied HN points • 06 Nov 24
🏥 Health Politics Vaccine Safety
  1. Big Pharma currently has legal immunity for vaccines, which makes it hard for people to sue them for injuries caused by vaccines. This immunity creates a system where companies might not feel responsible for ensuring their products are safe.
  2. The law that protects vaccine manufacturers was made for simpler and cheaper vaccines, not today's advanced and costly ones. This means that the rules should change to hold companies accountable for the newer, more complex vaccines.
  3. Removing this legal protection would help ensure that vaccines are treated like regular products. It would make sure that they are evaluated for risk and safety properly, just like any other medical product.

VSRF LIVE TONIGHT: Episode 209 with Nicolas Hulscher, MPH.

Steve Kirsch's newsletter • 1 implied HN point • 08 Jan 26
🏥 Health Politics Vaccine Safety
  1. The show questions whether the data truly justified major COVID-era policies like lockdowns, mandates, and testing strategies.
  2. It centers the experiences of vaccine‑injured people and frontline advocates to highlight real health harms and demand more transparent, evidence-based science.
  3. The discussion examines contested and under-studied topics—vitamin D’s role, differences in outcomes between vaccinated and unvaccinated people, and research on amyloid microclots and spike-related pathology—and considers what new CDC guidance and the Food Pyramid reveal about public-health priorities.

COVID Vaccines: In Search of All-Cause Mortality

Harnessing the Power of Nutrients • 79 implied HN points • 19 Feb 22
🏥 Health & Wellness Vaccine Safety
  1. Understanding the impact of COVID vaccines on all-cause mortality is crucial for assessing their risk versus reward.
  2. Manipulation of data definitions can lead to misinterpretation of findings, emphasizing the importance of transparent reporting.
  3. All-cause mortality is a key metric to evaluate, but other factors like long-term complications and individual risk profiles should also be considered.