MIT researchers found a potential safety signal in V-SAFE. A leading vaccine journal rejected the study without peer review—despite having published reassuring findings from the same CDC database.
Not many in the public know that many medical journals derive a portion of their income from reprints of key studies sold back to the pharmaceutical companies for the purposes of marketing.
This practice creates a key conflict of interest, deterring editors from potentially publishing anti-industry studies, knowing this might affect the financial viability of the journal in the future.
Furthermore, such practices are not common elsewhere in academia. Nor should they be.
A brief review of the literature indeed reveals numerous case series and case reports describing SARS-CoV-2-related myocarditis in 2020. It affected children and adults, was often the presenting issue in otherwise asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection, was often serious and sometimes lethal, but most patients appear to have made a full recovery, at least in the short term.
The question remains as to whether Comirnaty or Spikevax would have protected those patients from SARS-CoV-2-related myocarditis, or induced myocarditis themselves.
Thanks for reporting on this travesty. Professor Levi and researcher Lu have been essentially censored for conducting research and submitting a study that did not support the approved ideology that the Covid shots were safe and effective. Senator Ron Johnson is right, the FDA and CDC are hopelessly corrupt. I believe that they should be dissolved and new methods of performing their mission be developed. Americans deserve better.
Senator Johnson is obviously right, the evidence is overwhelming. Anyone arguing otherwise is either captured or not paying attention. The entire health sytem is one big criminal organization with so much money and power it appears no one can touch it without being destroyed.
The globalist industrial war machine industry cabal and their well compensated useful puppets pharmaceuticals, political opportunists and other minor minions is an overwhelmingly powerful enemy of normal humanity.
09/02/26. I assume that the writer would like the general reading public to benefit from reading this news/column. Recommended: At the start, providing a definition of "safety signal." Without it, what follows cannot make sense to those of us without medical / research studies/degrees. Thank you!
Well, it seems that Dr. Levi has gotten tangled in CATCH 2,222 (not just Catch 22!). It seems that only "good news" according to the mainstream narrative is allowed...and if any research shows otherwise, then, mainstream journals won't even peer-review it.
These types of rejections are based on opinion and bias and are designed to maintain the illusion of consensus - contrarian views do not get published, so the published literature is all in favour!
Makes me wonder how this is ever going to end. If it ever does. I hope that those studying medicine/science currently have enough common sense to choose proper scientific rigour over marketing. Or will the smart phones dumb us all down?
I don’t see it ending until the majority of the population understands the threat to their life and health for they and their families. Instead people will rally around those who denigrate RFK. He’s trying to move the mountain. But, there too the propaganda has been constant and repetitive.
This sentence was interesting to me: “Focusing on reports of prolonged health deterioration, they found that 185,285 participants—1.87%—reported worse health lasting at least three months that they attributed to Covid vaccination.”
VAERS notoriously has something like a 90% underreporting rate, doesn’t it? So even with the flawed methodology mentioned lower down, it had in the ballpark of a 20% severe side effect rate. I’d be very interested to know what the number is after correcting for that.
Yeah, so it’s 1.87% of the almost 10 million people who signed up to V-SAFE. And that figure is likely to underestimate the true rate, because people who are severely ill may be less able to respond — and, of course, people who have died can’t respond at all.
I guess the coming economic collapse of the USA and Europe, and the rise to dominance of China as a scientific power, may well lead to an end to (or maybe just a shift to different priorities of) this sort of censorship, but we will likely see the language of scientific exchange switch to Mandarin just as it switched from German to English previously. Now that even the preprint servers are engaged in the censorship (actually, they were doing this during the pandemic too) there will be "evolutionary pressure" for the development of an uncensorable system for non-reviewed scientific papers.
Hi Maryanne, after much ado I’m back on. I guess all we can do is keep spreading the word. It’s really tough as so many have bought the propaganda and the cabal owns most of the people involved who do their bidding and protect them.
Ron Johnson is correct. The whole process is irredeemably corrupted. There is minimal properly done trials to validate that vaccines do actually work, and on the other hand plenty of research, properly done, showing all sorts of harms (I must declare my bias here as my uncle was killed by the Pfizer Covid booster). Yet these treatments are still pushed and govts aid and abet the Pharma propaganda machine.
In a normally functioning society such criminal and lethal behaviour would not be tolerated. But sadly we have devolved to the point where corrupt govts, in league with vested interests, allow lies to be continuously propagated and disregard the immense harms that are caused.
Not many in the public know that many medical journals derive a portion of their income from reprints of key studies sold back to the pharmaceutical companies for the purposes of marketing.
This practice creates a key conflict of interest, deterring editors from potentially publishing anti-industry studies, knowing this might affect the financial viability of the journal in the future.
Furthermore, such practices are not common elsewhere in academia. Nor should they be.
It would be interesting to know when reports of myocarditis in connection with covid first appeared.
I don't recall hearing about a single case of SARS-CoV-2-related myocarditis in 2020. And the strains of covid were more virulent at that time.
I am happy to be corrected on this.
I wasn’t told when I got my pfizer shot april/21
A brief review of the literature indeed reveals numerous case series and case reports describing SARS-CoV-2-related myocarditis in 2020. It affected children and adults, was often the presenting issue in otherwise asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection, was often serious and sometimes lethal, but most patients appear to have made a full recovery, at least in the short term.
The question remains as to whether Comirnaty or Spikevax would have protected those patients from SARS-CoV-2-related myocarditis, or induced myocarditis themselves.
Captured. 100%
This shit makes my blood boil.
All under the guise that there’s true concern for our health. No. Not. We are mere numbers.
Same. 😩
Yes, it makes my blood boil too! Additionally, my blood boils trying to enlighten people about the truth. The propaganda has a high success rate.
Thanks for reporting on this travesty. Professor Levi and researcher Lu have been essentially censored for conducting research and submitting a study that did not support the approved ideology that the Covid shots were safe and effective. Senator Ron Johnson is right, the FDA and CDC are hopelessly corrupt. I believe that they should be dissolved and new methods of performing their mission be developed. Americans deserve better.
Senator Johnson is obviously right, the evidence is overwhelming. Anyone arguing otherwise is either captured or not paying attention. The entire health sytem is one big criminal organization with so much money and power it appears no one can touch it without being destroyed.
The globalist industrial war machine industry cabal and their well compensated useful puppets pharmaceuticals, political opportunists and other minor minions is an overwhelmingly powerful enemy of normal humanity.
Scarily so. They are rich, influential and run the show.
09/02/26. I assume that the writer would like the general reading public to benefit from reading this news/column. Recommended: At the start, providing a definition of "safety signal." Without it, what follows cannot make sense to those of us without medical / research studies/degrees. Thank you!
Thanks Don, I often wondered why it is always referred to as a "safety signal"....shouldn't it be "harm signal"? Words matter.
Well, it seems that Dr. Levi has gotten tangled in CATCH 2,222 (not just Catch 22!). It seems that only "good news" according to the mainstream narrative is allowed...and if any research shows otherwise, then, mainstream journals won't even peer-review it.
These types of rejections are based on opinion and bias and are designed to maintain the illusion of consensus - contrarian views do not get published, so the published literature is all in favour!
And it published data that AI picks up, so the illusion is maintained.
Makes me wonder how this is ever going to end. If it ever does. I hope that those studying medicine/science currently have enough common sense to choose proper scientific rigour over marketing. Or will the smart phones dumb us all down?
I don’t see it ending until the majority of the population understands the threat to their life and health for they and their families. Instead people will rally around those who denigrate RFK. He’s trying to move the mountain. But, there too the propaganda has been constant and repetitive.
This sentence was interesting to me: “Focusing on reports of prolonged health deterioration, they found that 185,285 participants—1.87%—reported worse health lasting at least three months that they attributed to Covid vaccination.”
VAERS notoriously has something like a 90% underreporting rate, doesn’t it? So even with the flawed methodology mentioned lower down, it had in the ballpark of a 20% severe side effect rate. I’d be very interested to know what the number is after correcting for that.
Yeah, so it’s 1.87% of the almost 10 million people who signed up to V-SAFE. And that figure is likely to underestimate the true rate, because people who are severely ill may be less able to respond — and, of course, people who have died can’t respond at all.
And those who don’t know their newly acquired illness, like MS etc. was caused by the shot.
I guess the coming economic collapse of the USA and Europe, and the rise to dominance of China as a scientific power, may well lead to an end to (or maybe just a shift to different priorities of) this sort of censorship, but we will likely see the language of scientific exchange switch to Mandarin just as it switched from German to English previously. Now that even the preprint servers are engaged in the censorship (actually, they were doing this during the pandemic too) there will be "evolutionary pressure" for the development of an uncensorable system for non-reviewed scientific papers.
Hi Maryanne, after much ado I’m back on. I guess all we can do is keep spreading the word. It’s really tough as so many have bought the propaganda and the cabal owns most of the people involved who do their bidding and protect them.
(glad substack is working now)
Ron Johnson is correct. The whole process is irredeemably corrupted. There is minimal properly done trials to validate that vaccines do actually work, and on the other hand plenty of research, properly done, showing all sorts of harms (I must declare my bias here as my uncle was killed by the Pfizer Covid booster). Yet these treatments are still pushed and govts aid and abet the Pharma propaganda machine.
In a normally functioning society such criminal and lethal behaviour would not be tolerated. But sadly we have devolved to the point where corrupt govts, in league with vested interests, allow lies to be continuously propagated and disregard the immense harms that are caused.
Is there an email address, phone number we can call to protest this BS decision?
Scoundrels scrutinise safe signal study. Specious spurning shows silly sausages still sapless. Sigh 😕