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The BMJ's Crocodile Tears: Part 1

In his disgraceful editorial the Editor in Chief thinks we suffer from amnesia

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Sep 16, 2025
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Every week, the BMJ publishes an Editor’s Choice, summing up what are thought to be the main topics of the issue. This week, Dr Abbasi chose a topic that is on everyone’s mind: whether mmRNA vaccines cause the various types of cancers that everyone seems to be aware of.

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He commented on an editorial (by Black and Evans) which had not been published in his own journal.

Strange, the two old geezers thought.

The Black and Evans commentary was a response to the paper by Fraiman et al. Part of their commentary discusses observational studies, and accuses Fraiman et al of cherry picking the observational literature. Black and Evans concluded that (the currently available data) “does not [show] any excess risks of the mRNA vaccines”. As this sweeping statement was published in the journal Vaccine and comments on what must be the most censored and suppressed dataset in the world, the conclusions were hardly surprising. Our readers are well aware of the strenuous efforts by HM government and its …

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