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Excess deaths "mystery"... no doubt talented analysts must have made some conclusions .. so much obfuscation when one tries to use mainstream reviews. The use of misleading ' relative effectiveness" and "relative risk " values. imho . It's energy sapping for the layperson let alone a professional. Never again will I trust some journals and some government stats.

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Never again will I trust ANY government stats.

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Makes you wonder about all prescription drugs, how they were trialled and how side effects are monitored by any regulator.

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So much corruption due to regulatory capture and PDUFA (Prescription Drug User Fee Act). An integrative physician highly recommended this book (which I have not yet read, but plan to order): "The Truth About the Drug Companies: How they Deceive Us and What To Do About It" by Marcia Angell, MD, former editor in chief of NEJM. Published in 2005. Fascinating that the front and back cover testimonials come from the NYT, Boston Globe, and Washington Post Book World. Hard to believe! The top review from the US on Amazon provides a detailed overview of the content, and others are quite interesting. One reviewer goes so far as to say this "book is a GIFT to the American people."

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Great questions. At least one inspection report is covered by Hedley Rees in the 9/25 post of his excellent Inside Pharma substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/hedleyrees?r=wkmlu&utm_medium=ios

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Excellent! Thanks very much for this.

https://hedleyrees.substack.com/p/fda-unearths-a-minefield-of-quality

And to think that a baby formula plant was shutdown because of 4 contaminants not associated with the formula itself!

why am i not surprised that this has attracted zero MSM interest? did i miss it? sure didn't miss all those reports of Tesfas catching fire in the Fla floods!

Thanks again!

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glad you found it useful! With you on not being surprised!

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My bad, I did not give you a hat tip (h/t) in my latest post on Moderna. I tried navigating through Gmail and came up with nothing and I couldn't remember which article you commented on to link me in to Hedley. I may be getting oldtimers! haha!

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Oh gosh, not looking for that! Just happy to have been able to help a little!

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just manners - i try to show who helps

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