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Retired child and adolescent psychiatrist and American expatriate in New Zealand. In 2002, I made the difficult decision to close my 25-year Seattle practice after 15 years of covert FBI harassment. I describe the unrelenting phone harassment, illegal break-ins and six attempts on my life in my 2010 book The Most Revolutionary Act: Memoir of an American Refugee.

America Has Given Millions for ‘Research’ At Chinese Communist-Run Facilities Since COVID Outbreak.

Revealed: Fauci’s office continued to fund Chinese coronavirus research AFTER the COVID-19 pandemic ravaged the globe and killed millions

Over half the grant cash came from Fauci.

The U.S. National Institutes of Health has continued to funnel millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars to fund scientific research in conjunction with Communist China since the beginning of the COVID pandemic, including to military-controlled organizations, The National Pulse can reveal.

Over half of the grants sent since early 2020 came from Anthony Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) database reveals that 13 grants have been sent to the country which has stonewalled investigations into the origins of COVID-19. China has also undertaken a global propaganda campaign to blame the U.S. for the virus, while America continues to send cash.

U.S.-funded studies.

China Medical University, Fudan University, Peking University, and China’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention are among the organizations, all of which are controlled by the Chinese Communist Party, funded by various NIH agencies.

Of the 13 grants to China, seven are from Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. 

Southern Medical University  – which is controlled by the regime’s People’s Liberation Army and has close ties to the Wuhan Institute of Virology – also received two additional grants worth nearly $300,000 from Fauci.

In total over $4 million has been sent to studies counting their principal investigators as working in China for state-run scientific bodies in 2020 and 2021. Seven of the studies are still active at the time of publication.

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Via https://thenationalpulse.com/news/nih-still-sending-millions-to-fund-ccp-research/

CDC Monitoring 8 Cases of Heart Inflammation in 5- to 11-Year-Olds Who Got Pfizer Vaccine

By  Megan Redshaw

In the same day the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it was aware of eight cases of heart inflammation in 5- to 11-year-olds vaccinated with Pfizer’s COVID vaccine, Pfizer and BioNTech announced they would seek full approval for their Comirnaty COVID vaccine for children 12 through 15.

The cases were reported in the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) and presented by a CDC official to a panel of its vaccine advisers.

The CDC acknowledged the reports on the same day Pfizer and BioNTech announced they had submitted a supplemental Biologics License Application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to expand the approval of their Comirnaty vaccine — not yet available in the U.S. — to include individuals ages 12 through 15 years.

During the Dec. 16 meeting of the CDC’s vaccine advisory panel, the CDC said there had been more than 7 million vaccine doses administered in the 5 to 11 age group at the time the agency examined the data, including 5.1 million first doses and 2 million second doses.

The CDC said there had been 3,233 reports to VAERS of adverse events among 5- to 11-year-olds, including 14 reports of myocarditis, five reports with follow-up in progress, nine reports with follow-up information obtained and eight reports of myocarditis that met the CDC’s working case definition, including four males and five females.

Two cases occurred after the first dose and six cases occurred after the second dose. One report is under review.

Myocarditis is inflammation of the heart muscle that can lead to cardiac arrhythmia and death. According to the National Organization for Rare Disorders, myocarditis can result from infections, but “more commonly the myocarditis is a result of the body’s immune reaction to the initial heart damage.”

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Via https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/cdc-heart-inflammation-children-pfizer-vaccine/

The horrifying vaccine damage testimonies of Australia’s silenced nurses

 

Aletho News

By Kathy Gyngell | TCW Defending Freedom | December 16, 2021

‘I’ve seen suffering amongst people on a level that I’ve never seen before. In the last week, I went to my 13th death or cardiac arrest and subsequent death post the vaccine’ –Paramedic, Queensland Ambulance Service

LAST week a regular reader of TCW Defending Freedom sent me a film that, despite all I already knew about Covid vaccine adverse reactions, injuries and deaths, shocked me to the core. In it more than a dozen Australian nurses and paramedics give their testimonies of what they’ve been witnessing and dealing with daily. They fear speaking out loud and openly such is the culture of silence and denial, a culture which defies conscience and medical ethics. Their voices and faces are disguised because they fear for their jobs: ‘It’s been made very clear by our registry board AHPRA that any form of speaking out against the narrative could lead to deregistration. And Queensland Ambulance has made that clear as well.’

Their need for anonymity is self-evident but equally clear is their determination to tell the world what is really happening and what the medical authorities are suppressing. I do not know who made the film but nothing about it suggests to me that it is anything but genuine.

It opens with quotes from various nurses’ and paramedics’ testimonies – their first-hand evidence of vaccine harms. Each is identified by number and job title as confirmed, in the film, by a commissioner of declarations.

‘What I’m seeing on the front line is that, you know, these vaccines are not as safe as we were led to believe. And in a lot of cases, they seem to be doing more harm than good.’ Paramedic (over 15 years) QLD Ambulance Service 

‘Four people in wheelchairs present back to the clinics after receiving Pfizer and they were all under 40. These were all people that weren’t able to walk. They had numbness and they couldn’t feel legs and arms.’ Vaccine clinic admin officer, QLD Health  

‘So there was a young person who had his jab three days prior, so he had it on the Wednesday and he was last seen well on Saturday night. Sunday morning, he was found unconscious on the floor in his own vomit, and he was diagnosed as being in septic shock and having a massive cardiac infarct. And he went to ICU. And I don’t think he recovered.’ Clinical nurse (over 15 years) QLD Health

‘To be honest, I just wish that we were allowed to speak about this. It is so frustrating to be in a position where we are seeing this stuff and we are seeing what these vaccines are doing and we’re not allowed to speak about it. Under the threat of losing our registration, we’ve been told that we’re not allowed to talk about these things and it is . . . I can’t even begin to put into words how frustrating it feels to be silenced.’ Paramedic, QLD Ambulance Service

‘Everyone’s living in fear of being reprimanded and losing their job.’ Registered nurse (over 15 years) QLD Health

We are told that as of November 1 there were approximately 7,000 Queensland Health employees yet to follow a direction from their employer requiring them to have their first Covid 19 vaccine. What follows in the film is a long edited sequence of deeply distressing accounts of the range of serious adverse vaccine events the nurses and paramedics  have been faced with, obstruction by their medical seniors and refusal to acknowledge these reactions are vaccine-related, the absence of any treatment protocols to address these ‘novel’ but extreme reaction,  a ‘normalisation’ of such reactions in the form of hospitals discharging patients still in dire need of help and, finally, expressions of deep concern that no one is being told about ‘the horrible side effects’.

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Via https://alethonews.com/2021/12/19/the-horrifying-vaccine-damage-testimonies-of-australias-silenced-nurses/

Gaslighting Autism Families: CDC, Media Continue to Obscure Decades of Vaccine-Related Harm

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s latest autism report, once again, attributed the rise of autism to “more awareness” rather than a true increase — and as usual, mainstream media fell in line with that narrative.

Media and public health officials perpetuated their entrenched practice of gaslighting autism families when earlier this month they trotted out the worn-out canard that a 23% rise in autism prevalence over a two-year period “reflects more awareness … rather than a true increase.”

The basis for this mean-spirited whopper was the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) release of its biennial report on autism prevalence as of 2018.

The report estimated autism affected 1 in 44 American 8-year-olds born in 2010 (2.27%). The CDC’s prior report estimated prevalence at 1 in 54 8-year-olds born in 2008 (1.85%).

Using a different methodology, the 2019-2020 National Survey of Children’s Health situated autism prevalence for children ages 3 to 17 at 1 in 34 (2.9%).

Notwithstanding the media spin, CDC’s new report cannot hide the fact that autism rates have not stopped rising — and the trend has persisted for decades.

This was acknowledged by the report’s New Jersey author, researcher Walter Zahorodny, who states that U.S. autism prevalence — far from plateauing — “has increased continuously over 20 years.”

Zahorodny, who years ago described the situation as “urgent,” has consistently rejected “better awareness” or “changes in diagnostic criteria” as explanations.

Twenty years (the period of time during which CDC has had its tracking system in place) is itself a gross understatement — autism prevalence in the 1990s (1 in 1,000) already represented a tenfold increase over the condition’s estimated prevalence in the 1970s.

Greeting the new data with a wink and a yawn, the media also ignored the fact that some subgroups and regions are experiencing even more of a “red alert” situation.

Zahorodny called attention, for example, to the finding that autism prevalence for California’s boys is an “unprecedented” 1 in 16 (6.4%) — almost double the dreadful rate of 1 in 28 boys overall (3.6%).

The “Golden State” now has the dubious distinction of having the highest autism rate in the nation.

Moreover, recent projections by autism researchers Mark Blaxill, Toby Rogers and Cynthia Nevison suggest, if current trends continue, the autism rate could surpass 6% for ALL American children within a few years.

Although there are any number of environmental toxins that harm children’s neurodevelopment, a preponderance of information from national and international sources pinpoints vaccines as the driving factor behind the autism epidemic.

This information includes the CDC’s own data — despite the agency’s numerous fraudulent attempts to make years of troublesome findings “go away.”

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Via https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/autism-cdc-media-vaccine-related-harm/

The Early Civilizations of Central America and Mexico

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Episode 26: Agrarian Civilizations of Mesoamerica

The Big History of Civilizations (2016)

Dr Craig G Benjamin

Film Review

Owing to abundant wild vegetables, fruit, game and fish, Mesoamerica hosted numerous “affluent hunter gatherer”* societies prior to the transition to agriculture, which occurred approximately 4000 BC.

Its earliest agrarian civilizations included

  • The Olmec, located on Mexico’s Gulf coast, was the agrarian civilization here. Characterized by hierarchical governance, warfare with neighboring peoples and a robust trade in luxury goods, it first appeared around 1400 BC. The Olmec domesticated corn, beans and squash (which together meet all human nutritional requirements), as well as dogs and turkeys. It waned around 1000 BC, leaving behind mysterious monuments consisting of massive 20 ton sculpted heads.
  • The Zapotec civilization in the Oaxaca valley 30 miles south of modern day Mexico City emerged during the first millennium BC. By 1000 AD, it boasted a population of 40,000 people, sophisticated irrigation systems and elegant homes for their elite. Periodic food shortages led to a series of northward migrations and the formation of six new city-states. With a population of 80,000 around 400 BC, the best known Teotihuacan would reach 150,000 in 500 AD, making it the 6th largest city in the world. The city mainly derived its wealth from trade (with societies extending from Guatemala to Oklahoma) in Pachuca obsidian, a hard volcanic glass used for blades and jewelry. In 750 AD, the city was destroyed by fire and abandoned.
  • The Mayan civilization emerged in Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula during the first millennium BC and lasted until 1000 AD. The Mayans drained swamps and built agricultural terraces and sophisticated water management systems to grow abundant corn, beans, peppers, cacao and tobacco. They reached a population of 50,000 in their major city Tikal, with another 50,000 people in the surrounding countryside. They developed a written language which they inscribed in stone and on a type of deerskin velum.*** Besides engaging in frequent warfare and human sacrifice, they developed the concept of zero and a 365-day calendar based on astronomical observations. Similar to ancient Greece, the Mayan empire consisted of 50 autonomous city-states similar to ancient Greece. In 760 AD, many of the southern Mayan cities vanished, though some northern Mayan cities persisted until 1250 AD. Benjamin believed the Mayan civilization paved the the way for the Aztec civilization that arose in the 16th century AD.

Tenochitlan at the center of Aztec civilization was founded around 1325 AD by nomadic people known as Mexicas on an island in the middle of Lake Texcoco. Honing their military skills by serving as mercenaries for settled city-states, the Mexicas founded Tenochitlan once they acquired the political and military nous to form a city-state of their own. They dredged up fertile soil from the bottom of the lake and built up small artificial plots known as Chinapas which came to ring the city. There they grew corn, beans, squash, pepper, tomatoes and domesticated grains. They also domesticated turkeys and dogs (as food), harvested blue-green algae they turned into high protein cakes and consumed alcohol they made from cacti.

In 1428 AD the Mexicas formed a triple alliance with two other city-states to eventually rule over 10 million people and collect tribute as food, textiles, blankets, jewelry, obsidian knives and rubber balls. To prevent destruction of the Earth by one of their gods, they practiced ritual blood letting and human sacrifice of captives.

The Aztec civilization was systematically destroyed by the Spanish conquistadors, who build Mexico City on the ruins of Tenochitlan. The Aztec language Nahauatal, still spoken by hundreds of thousands of Mexicans, is the source of the English words, coyote, tomato, chocolate and tamale.


*The region encompassing Mexico and most of Central America

**With food needs easily satisfied via abundant game and wild crops, “affluent” hunter gatherer societies ceased to be nomadic and lived in either permanent or semi-permanent settlements.

***Also known as parchment, vellum is a dried and prepared animal skin used for writing.

The film can be viewed free on Kanopy with a library card.

https://pukeariki.kanopy.com/video/agrarian-civilizations-mesoamerica

Quebec stops giving boosters to elders who have had COVID in the past due to severe, life-threatening side effects

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Samuel RZ

Westphalian Times

The immunization committee of Quebec reversed its recommendation after reports of severe side effects.

The Quebec government had to stop giving boosters to elders who had received two doses of the COVID vaccine and previously had COVID due to severe, life-threatening side effects.

The province’s immunization committee initially recommended that elders who had COVID in the past and who also received both doses of a COVID vaccine be given a booster shot.

However, elders in that category reacted very poorly to the booster. Many patients developed a fever after receiving their third dose.

They lost appetite, became physically weak, tired and lethargic, Le Devoir reported.

In more severe cases, the booster dose caused the patients difficulties in breathing and lowering oxygen levels.

Some elders also became delirious after receiving the injection.

While it may read like a conspiracy theory, the story was reported by Le Devoir, a major and credible left-wing news outlet.

Dr Sophie Zhang, Co-Assistant Director of Housing at CIUSSS du Centre-Sud-de-l’Île-de-Montréal, alerted the immunization committee and the health minister about the alarming side effects.

When asked if the booster dose caused the death of elders who had previously had COVID-19, Zhang refused to give a clear answer: “It’s a really tricky question. When a senior in a nursing home dies, how do you say it was the vaccine or not the vaccine [that caused the death]?”

The side effects were so severe that the establishments under Zhang’s supervision had to stop giving the boosters to vaccinated elders who had COVID-19 within 48 hours.

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Via https://westphaliantimes.com/canadian-province-stops-giving-boosters-to-elders-who-have-had-covid-in-the-past-due-to-severe-life-threatening-side-effects/

Why ICUs Are Overwhelmed With Seriously Ill Vaccinated Patients

NWO Report

Source: Source + HD Editor’s Note

The COVID-19 vaccines appear to be causing a global health disaster. There are so many warnings from all around the world. I’ll list just a few in this column. But the U.S. media remains silent. They’re as quiet as a church mouse. Why?

Japan’s Ministry of Health just announced that “the Moderna and Pfizer Covid vaccines could cause heart-related side effects in younger males.” Health experts in Japan have witnessed skyrocketing rates of myocarditis and pericarditis in young men and teenagers. And they’ve seen the same nonstop heart issues with middle-aged and older individuals.

All over America, and all over the world, cardiac arrest, heart inflammation, and heart attack deaths are exploding. Young athletes are dropping right on the field; star soccer players in Europe are dropping dead in the middle of games; referees, coaches, and even fans in the stands are having cardiac emergencies. It’s something no one has ever seen before. It’s an epidemic.

What do all these victims have in common? They’ve all been vaccinated.

In America, the media is filled with reports of hospital emergency rooms and intensive care units overwhelmed with seriously ill patients. From coast to coast, there are so many sick people lined up that there aren’t enough beds or nurses. Sick patients are lying on gurneys along the hallways. Doctors and medical experts call it a “mystery” why so many Americans are sick. They can’t understand what’s happening.

But I can solve the mystery. I believe that these are COVID-19 vaccine-related injuries overwhelming ERs and ICUs. The very illnesses that are most prevalent in this mysterious health emergency — heart attack deaths, cardiac arrest, strokes, blood clots, multiple organ failure — are all the same COVID-19 vaccine side effects listed in the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).

What a coincidence.

But it’s not just in the USA. It’s happening everywhere. In the U.K., the Evening Standard newspaper reports up to 300,000 British citizens are facing sudden heart-related illness and cardiac arrest.

U.K. medical experts are blaming PPSD — “post-pandemic stress disorder.” Three hundred thousand Brits aren’t dying and crippled from the vaccine. Of course not. They’re all nuts. It’s all in their heads.

These brainwashed Kool-Aid drinkers can’t see what’s right in front of their faces. Or perhaps doctors, scientists, and researchers are too afraid of losing their medical licenses, or losing multimillion-dollar government grants, to speak up.

In the case of the media, it’s all about greed. Big Pharma buys a large proportion of the ads on every TV news network in America. Offend Big Pharma with stories of vaccine deaths and injuries, and the media could lose billions of dollars in revenue. Half the newsroom could be fired.

Not to mention stock prices would collapse in these media companies. There go the retirement accounts of Lester Holt, Don Lemon, Sean Hannity, and Rachel Maddow. So, the truth is hard to come by.

What’s the truth? All anyone with a shred of credibility, morality, and decency have to look at are a few key factors.

First, the Food and Drug Administration has reportedly requested 75 years to fully release the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine data. If I told you to “Trust me, I’m selling the world’s best health tonic, but I can’t disclose any of the test results or ingredients for 75 years until everyone asking is dead,” would you trust me? Would you buy what I was selling? Would you inject it into your body?

Second, a federal judge demanded some of that data be released immediately by Pfizer. Just in the first few pages, detailing results from just the first few weeks of vaccines, Pfizer admits in their own data that their vaccine was linked to fatal outcomes for 1,223 Americans and produced 42,086 reports of adverse effects. Among the most prominent adverse effects were heart attacks and heart problems.

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Via https://nworeport.me/2021/12/18/why-icus-are-overwhelmed-with-seriously-ill-vaccinated-patients/

Texts Reveal Amazon Managers Told Workers to Keep Going As Fatal Tornado Hit Illinois Warehouse

NWO Report

Source: Richard Moorhead

Text messages sent from Amazon warehouse managers to drivers delivering packages from the Big Tech giant’s Edwardsville, Illinois facility reveal the company refused to allow drivers to seek shelter as a fatal tornado rolled into the area.

Six Amazon warehouse workers were killed by a tornado that struck swathes of Illinois and Kentucky last weekend, with text messages from one Iraq War veteran employed at the Edwardsville Amazon warehouse- a man who was killed in the disaster- revealing the company refused to send the workers home even as tornado warnings became apparent.

Now, even more text messages published by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch show that Amazon overseers directed a delivery driver to continue working as the driver questioned their own safety. In one text message, the driver expressed their concern that the Amazon delivery van would become their “casket.”

Amazon Dispatch first denied a request from the driver to return to the facility, thirty minutes before the tornado touched Edwardsville.

Dispatch: Just keep delivering for now. We have to wait for word from Amazon. If we need to bring people back, the decision will ultimately be up to them. I will let you know if the situation changes at all. I’m talking with them now about it.

Driver: How about for my own personal safety, I’m going to head back. Having alarms going off next to me and nothing but locked building around me isn’t sheltering in place. That’s wanting to turn this van into a casket. Hour left of delivery time. And if you look at the radar, the worst of the storm is going to be right on top of me in 30 minutes.

Dispatch: If you decided to come back, that choice is yours. But I can tell you it won’t be viewed as for your own safety. The safest practice is to stay exactly where you are. If you decide to return with your packages, it will be viewed as you refusing your route, which will ultimately end with you not having a job come tomorrow morning. The sirens are just a warning.

An Amazon spokesperson threw the manager under the bus in a canned statement delivered to the Post-Dispatch, pinning off the seriously negligent and hazardous demand as just the decision of an underling. Amazon’s workplace practices are some of the most criticized in the western world, with the multibillion dollar Big Tech company having practically perfected a model of workplace surveillance and computerized management.

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Via https://nworeport.me/2021/12/19/texts-reveal-amazon-managers-told-workers-to-keep-going-as-fatal-tornado-hit-illinois-warehouse/

Big Pharma, Gates, Fauci, UK officials accused of crimes against humanity in complaint to International Criminal Court

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Emily Mangiaracina

Activists are charging UK officials and the world’s most powerful health figures with genocide, citing a range of statistics on the effects of COVID “vaccines” and policies.

(LifeSiteNews) – A group that includes former Pfizer vice president Dr. Michael Yeadon filed a complaint with the International Criminal Court (ICC) on behalf of UK citizens against Boris Johnson and UK officials, Bill and Melinda Gates, chief executives of Big Pharma companies, World Economic Forum executive chairman Klaus Schwab, and others for crimes against humanity.

The UK group, including an astrophysicist and a funeral director, additionally charged Dr. Anthony Fauci; Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO);  June Raine, chief executive of Medicines and Healthcare products regulatory agency (MHRA); Dr. Radiv Shah, president of the Rockefeller Foundation; and Dr. Peter Daszak, president of EcoHealth Alliance,  as “responsible for numerous violations of the Nuremberg Code … war crimes and crimes of aggression” in the UK and other countries.

After repeated unsuccessful attempts to raise a case with the English Court system, the applicants resorted to calling with “the utmost urgency” for the ICC “to stop the rollout of COVID vaccinations, introduction of unlawful vaccination passports and all other types of illegal warfare … being waged against the people of the UK.”

In the group’s complaint filed December 6, they present evidence that COVID-19 “vaccines” are in fact experimental gene therapies engineered with gain-of-function research from bat coronaviruses, arguing that these “vaccines” have caused massive death and injury and that the UK government has failed to investigate such reported deaths and injuries; that COVID case and death numbers have been artificially inflated; that face masks are harmful due to hypoxia, hypercapnia and other causes; and PCR tests are “completely unreliable” and “contain carcinogenic ethylene oxide.”

They furthermore argued that effective treatments for COVID-19 such as hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin, were suppressed, leading to a greater death toll from COVID-19 than what should have occurred.

They make the case that the lockdowns were enacted under the pretext of artificially inflated infection and death numbers from an engineered virus, as well as the experimental “vaccines” have resulted in:

Massive short-term damage and death, with at least 395,049 reported adverse reactions to COVID “vaccines” in the UK alone; a sharp uptick in ChildLine calls from vulnerable children during lockdowns; “destruction of wealth and businesses” through imposed lockdowns;” “severe deprivation of physical liberty in violation of fundamental rules of international law,” including bans on travel and gatherings, and forced quarantine and self-isolation; apartheid due to segregation by vaccine passport possession; and “expected reduction in fertility” after “vaccination,” among other harmful physical and psychological effects.

In addition, the applicants maintain that “the suppression of safe and effective alternative treatments for Covid-19 amounts to murder and warrants a full investigation by the court.” They noted that besides censorship of online information on and promotion of these alternative treatments, “some academic journals are blocking the publication of studies showing the effectiveness of drugs such as ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine.”

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Via https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/big-pharma-execs-gates-fauci-uk-officials-charged-with-crimes-against-humanity-in-international-court/

British Medical Journal Trashes Facebook Fact Checking

Open letter from The BMJ to Mark Zuckerberg

Nov 2 2021

Dear Mark Zuckerberg,

We are Fiona Godlee and Kamran Abbasi, editors of The BMJ, one of the world’s oldest and most influential general medical journals. We are writing to raise serious concerns about the “fact checking” being undertaken by third party providers on behalf of Facebook/Meta.

In September, a former employee of Ventavia, a contract research company helping carry out the main Pfizer covid-19 vaccine trial, began providing The BMJ with dozens of internal company documents, photos, audio recordings, and emails. These materials revealed a host of poor clinical trial research practices occurring at Ventavia that could impact data integrity and patient safety. We also discovered that, despite receiving a direct complaint about these problems over a year ago, the FDA did not inspect Ventavia’s trial sites.

The BMJ commissioned an investigative reporter to write up the story for our journal. The article was published on 2 November, following legal review, external peer review and subject to The BMJ’s usual high level editorial oversight and review.[1]

But from November 10, readers began reporting a variety of problems when trying to share our article. Some reported being unable to share it. Many others reported having their posts flagged with a warning about “Missing context … Independent fact-checkers say this information could mislead people.” Those trying to post the article were informed by Facebook that people who repeatedly share “false information” might have their posts moved lower in Facebook’s News Feed. Group administrators where the article was shared received messages from Facebook informing them that such posts were “partly false.”

Readers were directed to a “fact check” performed by a Facebook contractor named Lead Stories.[2]

We find the “fact check” performed by Lead Stories to be inaccurate, incompetent and irresponsible.

— It fails to provide any assertions of fact that The BMJ article got wrong

— It has a nonsensical title: “Fact Check: The British Medical Journal Did NOT Reveal Disqualifying And Ignored Reports Of Flaws In Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Trials”

— The first paragraph inaccurately labels The BMJ a “news blog”

— It contains a screenshot of our article with a stamp over it stating “Flaws Reviewed,” despite the Lead Stories article not identifying anything false or untrue in The BMJ article

— It published the story on its website under a URL that contains the phrase “hoax-alert”

We have contacted Lead Stories, but they refuse to change anything about their article or actions that have led to Facebook flagging our article.

We have also contacted Facebook directly, requesting immediate removal of the “fact checking” label and any link to the Lead Stories article, thereby allowing our readers to freely share the article on your platform.

There is also a wider concern that we wish to raise. We are aware that The BMJ is not the only high quality information provider to have been affected by the incompetence of Meta’s fact checking regime. To give one other example, we would highlight the treatment by Instagram (also owned by Meta) of Cochrane, the international provider of high quality systematic reviews of the medical evidence.[3] Rather than investing a proportion of Meta’s substantial profits to help ensure the accuracy of medical information shared through social media, you have apparently delegated responsibility to people incompetent in carrying out this crucial task. Fact checking has been a staple of good journalism for decades. What has happened in this instance should be of concern to anyone who values and relies on sources such as The BMJ.

We hope you will act swiftly: specifically to correct the error relating to The BMJ’s article and to review the processes that led to the error; and generally to reconsider your investment in and approach to fact checking overall.

Best wishes,

Fiona Godlee, editor in chief
Kamran Abbasi, incoming editor in chief
The BMJ


Competing interests:
As current and incoming editors in chief, we are responsible for everything The BMJ contains.

References:

[1] Thacker PD. Covid-19: Researcher blows the whistle on data integrity issues in Pfizer’s vaccine trial. BMJ. 2021 Nov 2;375:n2635. doi: 10.1136/bmj.n2635. PMID: 34728500. https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2635

[2] Miller D. Fact Check: The British Medical Journal Did NOT Reveal Disqualifying And Ignored Reports Of Flaws In Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Trials. Nov 10, 2021. ​​https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2021/11/fact-check-british-medical-jo…

[3] https://twitter.com/cochranecollab/status/1458439812357185536

Original link to letter: https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2635/rr-80