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The BMJ's Crocodile Tears - Part 3

What are we to make of all this?

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Sep 19, 2025
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Our short series has drawn a lot of attention and has also caught the eye of secret squirrels worldwide.

Hands down, we do not know what to make of Dr Abbasi’s unfortunate editorial. We do not think he has done sufficient background work, but we may be wrong.

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With the help of TTE’s global network of informers, we thought we would do a bit more digging on the funding of Dr Black.

Dr Black reports his affiliation as ​​Global Vaccine Data Network (GVDN). Fine, however, GVDN was seeded by a large grant from the Gates Foundation, and its COVID-19 vaccine research was funded by another very large grant, this time by the CDC.

"In 2021, the network received US$10,108,491 from the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for a five-year project looking into the safety of various COVID-19 vaccines given to hundreds of millions of people across many countries”.

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Set up in 2019, GVDN has garnered substantial sums of money. In December 2024…

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