Caught in Their Own Trap?
On Jan. 5, 2024 the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published an article by Dr. Peter Marks and Dr. Robert Califf. Both authors are affiliated with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The article, “Is Vaccination Approaching a Dangerous Tipping Point?,” is a discussion about growing vaccine hesitancy in the U.S., and […]
Dr. Malhotra on Calling for Vaccine Data Transparency
What was reported in the mainstream news as being 95 percent effective against infection was in fact relative risk reduction, not absolute risk reduction from the double blind randomized controlled trial that took place during the more lethal circulating post-Wuhan ancestral strain of the virus. The specific NEJM paper which underpinned the emergency use authorization […]
Aseem Malhotra, MD on the Epidemic of Misinformed Doctors and Patients
We have an epidemic of misinformed doctors and misinformed and unwittingly harmed patients based upon a number of factors: Biased funding of research that derives clinical decision-making in the consultation room, which is research that’s funded because it’s likely to be profitable, not beneficial for patients in public health; biased reporting in medical journals; biased […]
