April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. T.S. Eliot: The Waste-Land In August 1914, the First World War took shape. In August 1939, the Second World War was in preparation with Germany launching the first attacks on September 1. At the end of July 2020, the first patient in … [Read more...] about August is the Cruellest Month
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COVID and Vaccine: It takes two to Tango
This post follows on from last weeks Vaccine Rag or Vaccine Tango. In the photo above, appropriately in the centre, we have Nicolás Vaquer, the plenipotentiary to Argentina of a Big American Power (Pfizer). On the left of the photo, to the right of the Boss of Bosses, is Dr. Fernando Polack, the head of a company about to take something like $50 million for … [Read more...] about COVID and Vaccine: It takes two to Tango
Vaccine Rag or Vaccine Tango
Starting in August 2020, i-Trials, a company owned by Fernando Polack, his family, and colleagues, set up to run clinical trials on a commercial basis, recruited 5,768 of the 43,548 volunteers randomized to either BNT162b2 or placebo in what is usually called Pfizer’s trial, although the trial was actually set up, run by and supervised by ICON. The Buenos Aires 5,768 made … [Read more...] about Vaccine Rag or Vaccine Tango
mRNA Boosters and mRNA Boosterism
Following on Augusto's efforts to get the Argentine state to look at what happened to him and others in the Pfizer Comirnaty Trial - See News Flash - over the next few weeks, this blog will show some trial results from the Buenos Aires site, which do point to issues that need to be clarified. In preparation for presenting these data and questions, it seemed a good idea to … [Read more...] about mRNA Boosters and mRNA Boosterism
News Flash – Noticia de última Hora
From our South American correspondent For David and Goliath read Augusto Roux and Albert Bourla - Pfizer (who might just be in Trouble) Readers who read earlier posts - Disappeared in Argentina - Fishy Business in the Rio de la Plata - So Long and Thanks for all the Fish - will remember the unsavoury account of Augusto Roux at the hands of Dr Fernando Polack, boss of … [Read more...] about News Flash – Noticia de última Hora
Special Medical Operation Hits Fog
This post follows on from The Fog of a Special Medical Operation. Joe Biden says we have to resist Putin’s Special Military Operation. If we don't resist this SMO, we are told, Putin will use it as a precedent to extend his reach beyond Ukraine. I don't know enough about all this, but, perhaps just manipulated by propaganda, while figuring the War is crazy and there must … [Read more...] about Special Medical Operation Hits Fog
The Fog of a Special Medical Operation
War is the realm of uncertainty; three quarters of the factors on which action in war is based are wrapped in a fog of greater or lesser uncertainty. A sensitive and discriminating judgment is called for; a skilled intelligence to scent out the truth. Carl von Clausewitz Almost a year to the day after this post went up a preprint was published analyzing the same data and … [Read more...] about The Fog of a Special Medical Operation
Total Eclipse of the Heart
https://twitter.com/i/status/1571186794644873217 Paul Pickerell Imagine you were a healthy public-spirited 49 year-old in Texas. You volunteered to take part in Pfizer’s Covid Vaccine trial. Your medical history was just a touch of hay-fever. You went through all the check-ups to make sure you were eligible. You rolled up your sleeve on 29 August 2020. And had the first … [Read more...] about Total Eclipse of the Heart
Shit Happens with the A Team
For youngsters, the A-Team was a television program about a group of ex-US Army dudes who used to go around tackling problems - often by blasting them out of existence. They were a little more diverse than Pfizer's A-Team. Down in the Deep South in Huntsville Alabama, you will find the Medical Affiliated Research Center. Pfizer Covid Vaccine Volunteers there were in the … [Read more...] about Shit Happens with the A Team
Mike Dever and Vaccines
When Clinical Trials began in the 1950s, investigators knew the patients and because of this could spot changes in them for the better or the worse. The expectation was that they would make a judgement call about things happening in a trial and, in many cases, would link the drug to an event – good or bad. Company Strategy 101 Starting in 1990 with Prozac, and becoming ever … [Read more...] about Mike Dever and Vaccines