Fiona Godlee played a major role in the vilification of Andrew Wakefield, while failing to disclose the BMJ's corporate partnership with Merck, and additional funding from GSK – the two major global vaccine marketers and manufacturers of the MMR vaccine.
"It's unusual to watch one of the world's most powerful editors in scientific publishing play with a marionette puppet.
But Dr. Fiona Godlee, editor of the BMJ, specializes in the unexpected.
The puppet she's holding is dressed as a doctor, complete with a stethoscope around its neck. Its strings represent the hidden hand of the pharmaceutical industry.
'I think we have to call it what it is. It is a corruption of the scientific process.' -Dr. Fiona Godlee, editor, BMJ "
Another quote from the article
"It's led me and others to increasingly question the idea that the manufacturer of the drug could ever be considered the right people to evaluate its effectiveness and safety," Godlee says.
"That seems to me to be very mad idea which has grown up historically, and we have to start questioning it and we have to come up with alternatives, which would mean independent studies done by independent bodies."
And it matters, Godlee says, because bad science can be dangerous.
Fiona Godlee played a major role in the vilification of Andrew Wakefield, while failing to disclose the BMJ's corporate partnership with Merck, and additional funding from GSK – the two major global vaccine marketers and manufacturers of the MMR vaccine.
I linked to this post on Steve Kirsch's substack. Your posts need more visibility.
“suboptimal chronic treatment” about sums it up
I wouldn’t have expected anything different. Of course they knew beforehand.
Two substacks covering injuries from mRNA Covid-19 vaccines
The first by a midwest doctor who has been collecting reports from his own patients, former students, other doctors, etc.
"Adverse Reactions to COVID Vaccines I Have Come Across
I have spent the last year working to document this. It is a lot to take in but I feel it needs to be said.
A Midwestern Doctor Mar 5, 2022"
https://amidwesterndoctor.substack.com/p/adverse-reactions-to-covid-vaccines?s=r
He has two prior substacks on the history of the small pox vax in the 1800's
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and there is this one - might be behind a paywall
https://www.eugyppius.com/p/from-sore-arms-to-sudden-death?s=r
Thank you Merryl! The link to the Godlee quote doesn't seem to be working?
Both work for me: ist is medPage and 2nd is BMJ
The BMJ doesn't work for me.
Are you aware of this quote and article?:
"It's unusual to watch one of the world's most powerful editors in scientific publishing play with a marionette puppet.
But Dr. Fiona Godlee, editor of the BMJ, specializes in the unexpected.
The puppet she's holding is dressed as a doctor, complete with a stethoscope around its neck. Its strings represent the hidden hand of the pharmaceutical industry.
'I think we have to call it what it is. It is a corruption of the scientific process.' -Dr. Fiona Godlee, editor, BMJ "
Another quote from the article
"It's led me and others to increasingly question the idea that the manufacturer of the drug could ever be considered the right people to evaluate its effectiveness and safety," Godlee says.
"That seems to me to be very mad idea which has grown up historically, and we have to start questioning it and we have to come up with alternatives, which would mean independent studies done by independent bodies."
And it matters, Godlee says, because bad science can be dangerous.
"Patients do get hurt."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/bmj-fiona-godlee-science-1.3541769
https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/89512