Shocking secrets about vaccines

Very few have ever been compared to a true placebo

- by PETER C. GOTZSCHE

THE vaccine area is much more complicated than I knew when I worked at a department of infectious diseases as a young doctor.

I didn't perceive that vaccines could be a problem and had taken all the recommended ones. My 2013 book, Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime, hardly mentions vaccines at all - because none of the major scandals in healthcare, where drugs had killed thousands of patients because of drug company fraud, had involved vaccines.

In 2015, the former head of cabinet in the Danish Ministry of Health asked me to attend a meeting about an ongoing dispute about the safety of the HPV vaccines.

He was hoping I would agree that there was no reason to worry about the alleged serious neurological harms of the vaccines.

There surely was, and my 2021 book, Vaccines: Truth, Lies, and Controversy, has a long chapter about the HPV vaccines. It also documents how the influenza vaccines have been hyped beyond belief.

My work with the vaccine book made me realise that it is very difficult to get honest information about vaccines. The vaccine area is fraught with censorship, retaliations, and intolerance. I was called an anti-vaxxer even when I only asked questions and when I argued why mandatory vaccinations were unethical.

During the covid-19 pandemic, Harvard professor Martin Kulldorff was fired for debating official policies. One of the things Kulldorff had said was that neither those with prior infection nor children needed the vaccine. Children are at very low risk of becoming seriously ill after a covid-19 infection, whereas the mRNA covid-19 vaccines have killed about one to two per 200 children who went on to get myocarditis.