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The MHRA Papers - Part 6

Shut up; we are managing you.

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Tom Jefferson and Carl Heneghan
Jan 09, 2025
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SUMMARY: The stuff goes everywhere in rats, but does it in humans? The EWG sets out to manage some statements against the main narrative made by scientists.

 We continue our review of the minutes of the meetings of the MHRA’s ​​Commission On Human Medicines (CHM) COVID-19 Vaccines Benefit Risk Expert Working Group.

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 On 7 December 2020, the EWG considered the comments by a former Pfizer scientist and vice president without naming him, and this could only be Dr Mike Yeadon. 

Dr Yeadon rose to prominence and was duly demonised as he was a co-signatory of a petition to the EMA to halt the vaccine trials because of the risk of infertility. While the DHSC promptly called the claims “false, dangerous and deeply irresponsible”, the EWG apparently devoted most if not all of its 7 December meeting to “managing” Dr Yeadon’s multiple comments. They seemed concerned that anyone of its secret squirrel population should break the secrecy.

Along the way, they also remarked that the Oxford Astra Zeneca va…

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