Dr. Martin Kulldorff
Professor Harvard Medical School. Disease surveillance methods. Infectious disease outbreaks. Vaccine safety. Free SaTScan, TreeScan and RSequential software.
Boston, USA
The problem for the scientific community is not that its leaders got the pandemic wrong. To err is human. It's that they abandoned: 1) Evidence-based medicine 2) Basic principles of public health 3) Open scientific discussion 4) Academic freedom
Unlike Dr. Fauci, those of us who wrote and signed the @ gbdeclaration don't need a pardon, as we were right about focused protection instead of lockdowns.
"We're finding [the DNA plasmids] in the bloodstream of patients and we're beginning to see it in tumors...if there are exosomes involved...[and] these plasmids can replicate and they can shed, then you've got a sort of a self-amplifying vaccine."
"The academic and public health establishments have ignored criticism of their abandonment of scientific principles during the pandemic." - @ JohnTierneyNYC
In 2020, @ NIHDirector Francis Collins called @ DrJBhattacharya a "fringe epidemiologist" while calling for a devastating take down of our nti-lockdown @ gbdeclaration. After proven right, Jay has now been nominated as the next @ NIHDirector. Truth prevails!
Dr. @MartyMakary "is the first nominee for FDA commissioner I have seen in my entire life who has ever said anything that went against corporate interests .. He is not a pharma-shill. He has true integrity." -@ VPrasadMDMPH
Wow‼️ @ NBCNews is critical of @ FDA nominee @MartyMakary for being a proponent of natural immunity, which we have known about since the Athenian Plague in 430 BC. That's like criticizing the @ NASA chief for believing that the earth is round, not flat.
After his @ washingtonpost promoted unscientific Covid lockdowns benefitting his @ amazon business, while slandering me and other scientists, @ JeffBezos is now arguing for truth in journalism. Wow!
Professor Robert Clancy announces some of his new research findings. The microbiome and using bacteria based preparations to impressive theraputic effect, often without expensive drugs.
The Covid pandemic drew attention to the distinctive system of mucosal immunity and its limited interplay with systemic immunity with which we were more familiar. The pandemic coincided with a period of fifty years from the recognition of a communicating mucosal immune system. John Bienenstock called this “The Common Mucosal Immune System” (CMS). Lessons relevant to Covid on the relevance of mucosal immunity to both the pathogenesis of disease and vaccination strategies were slowly learnt. Early in the pandemic, protracted changes in the intestinal microbiota were noted that correlated with the progress and severity of infection, and later were linked to development of post-Covid syndrome. The purpose of this review is to pull together through the lens of Covid-19 how a viral infection of the respiratory mucosal space connects with systemic immunity on one hand, and mucosa-related microbiota on the other, within a single integrated mucosal system, to create a carpet of protection. Infection within this unified system can induce changes in balance between microbiota and the relevant local immune response at distant mucosal sites, which in turn, can impact the outcome of the inciting infection in either a deleterious or beneficial manner. Within the broader framework that includes systemic immunity, outcomes of both infection and vaccination, reflect a controlled balance determined by downregulation via suppressor T cells seeded from mucosal sites of infection. The integrity of this comprehensive system has been queried based on regional differences. Such a view fails to recognise mechanisms of critical outcomes of Covid and its management, and opportunities for innovative therapeutic intervention. Variations throughout the mucosal apparatus such as “offsite” generation of airway immunity in the gut and differences in microbial characteristics of microbiomes, reflect adaptation to local influences without compromising the essential qualities of a global mucosal protection system: communication, integration, and cooperation. A central unifying factor for a “Mucosal Immune Microbiome Protection System” or MIMPS, is the idea that a single set of gut-associated lymphoid tissues characterised by specialised M cells, samples appropriate microbiome to generate global mucosal immune defence.
To cut down on health misinformation, governments should simply retract its own misinformation during the pandemic, such as the dismissal of infection acquired immunity.