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Exaggerating the Influenza Threat - Reflections of a long-time Cochrane reviewer.
I beg all of you who were or will be offered an influenza vaccination to consider the content of this post when deciding whether to accept.
We have published posts presenting evidence that the influenza threat has been inflated.
The US authorities knew that fraud was essentially taking place, and they bent over backwards to defend each other and cover up the scam.
Here’s the first part of the story of why I have suspected and then known about this for at least 25 years.
In the mid-1990s, as the Cochrane Collaboration was starting, some of us in its Acute Respiratory Infection Group started writing protocols for Cochrane reviews on the topics that interested us (Cochrane being then a volunteer bottom-up organisation).
In my case, it was influenza and other respiratory agents. So, we wrote protocols and published reviews on the effects (effectiveness and harms) of influenza vaccines (all types of inactivated and live attenuated) on children, adults, asthmatics, the elderly, and those who c…
