"Covid-19: The concealed side effects"
"“Why does the parliamentary Office investigating the side effects of Covid vaccines not make all its proceedings public?” An op-ed signed by more than 850 professionals from research, health and law."
"Last 24 May, the Parliamentary Office for the Evaluation of Scientific and Technological Choices (OPECST) held a public hearing closing its work “on the side effects of vaccines against Covid-19 and the functioning of the French pharmacovigilance system”. And its report was made public on 9 June. Behind the apparent openness of the proceedings, the Office in fact made certain contributions concerning the side effects of covid-19 vaccines invisible."
"No explanation"
"Already, by publicly hearing only three “critical voices” against eleven vaccine cheerleaders, the Office showed a certain bias in the very organisation of its work, during which 9 of the 49 people heard offered an analysis different from the discourse that has flooded the media since the start of mass vaccination (“vaccination is safe, it protects vaccinated people and also protects others, it is 95% certain, etc.”). But above all, even though its rules allowed it to make them public, the Office chose to conduct its work in the form of private hearings, a highly questionable format for a major issue affecting the health of all French people. Thus, the hearings that took place from March to May 2022 will never be made public. Why? Would some hearings be embarrassing? Would the public not be able to hear them? To understand them? No explanation is provided by the Office."
"Particularly alarming findings"
"Three people whose hearings were thus made virtually secret (Ms Christine Cotton, biostatistician, Ms Emmanuelle Darles and Mr Vincent Pavan, lecturer-researchers at the universities of Poitiers and Marseille) nevertheless asked to be able to present their work during the public hearing of last 24 May. To no avail. Although they went to the Senate on the very day of the hearing, they found the doors closed. The formal summons they had served on the president of the Office, Mr Cédric Villani, will nevertheless be a landmark, and it will no longer be possible for the members of the Office to claim “that they did not know”.
Yet what these people had to say is essential for impartial public information, without which there can be no talk of “free and informed consent” to vaccination.
Their work indeed reveals particularly alarming findings.
First, it shows major methodological problems in the clinical trials that led to the Emergency Authorisation as early as December 2020. Thus, the shortcomings and biases of the phase 3 clinical trial of the Pfizer vaccine make its conclusions unreliable from the point of view of good clinical practice, distorting the assessment of the benefit/risk ratio."
"Around 30,000 deaths in Europe"
"It then notes an opacity of public data on the vaccines, which are open neither to the public nor to researchers, something unprecedented in the history of French pharmacovigilance. In particular, the causality assessment method for adverse effects used by the Regional Pharmacovigilance Centres (CRPV) does not make it possible to obtain complete data. It should also be borne in mind that only between 1% and 10% of adverse effects are usually reported in pharmacovigilance databases.
Finally, alarming mortality figures emerge from the European pharmacovigilance databases (EMA), which report, to date, around 30,000 deaths in Europe that may be linked to the vaccine. In addition, these databases report a 1,788% increase in menstrual cycle disorders, a 732% increase in strokes, and as much blindness in a few months of vaccination as over 30 cumulative years for all vaccines combined, with more than 60% of these serious adverse effects occurring on the very day of vaccination."
"Make the hearings public"
"That is why we, academics, researchers, health professionals and legal professionals, solemnly ask the Parliamentary Office for the Evaluation of Scientific and Technological Choices to make public all the hearings conducted during the Office's work on “the side effects of vaccines against Covid-19 and the functioning of the French pharmacovigilance system”, by video and by written transcript. It is both a right and a duty in a democracy to make all the available information available to citizens and their elected representatives, and not merely the part that suits the government."
By Laurent Mucchielli, sociologist and research director at the CNRS
Read the full op-ed here:
https://infodujour.fr
Link to the original site and the list of the 850 signatories:
https://qg.media
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