The ‘Great Vaccine Scare’ — When Politics Take Priority Over Public Health, by Dr. Joseph Mercola

The topic of vaccines has always been controversial, but it reached a fever pitch during the COVID-19 pandemic when it became sacrilegious to speak out against vaccines, or even question their safety and efficacy.

Story at a glance:

• In 2021, investigative journalist Paul Thacker became a target of what he calls “the Great Vaccine Scare — hysteria about any and all vaccine criticism.”

• Thacker wrote an article published in The BMJ titled “COVID-19: Researcher blows the whistle on data integrity issues in Pfizer’s vaccine trial.”

• The article was thorough and accurate, but labeled as “misinformation” by a Facebook fact checker anyway.

• Dr. Aseem Malhotra was also harassed for sharing science relating to COVID-19 shot side effects.

• Former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson was also a victim of vaccine hysteria; his Twitter account was suspended when he posted scientifically accurate information that cast a negative light on COVID-19 shots.

• We’re living in unprecedented times when inconvenient science is silenced and politics take priority over public health.

The topic of vaccines has always been controversial, but it reached a fever pitch during the COVID-19 pandemic, when it became sacrilegious to speak out against them, or even question their safety and efficacy.

In 2021, investigative journalist Paul Thacker became a target of what he calls “the Great Vaccine Scare — hysteria about any and all vaccine criticism,” after he wrote an article published in The BMJ titled “COVID-19: Researcher Blows the Whistle on Data Integrity Issues in Pfizer’s Vaccine Trial.”

The article, it should be noted, was thorough, accurate and “based on dozens of internal company documents, photos, audio recordings and emails.”

It was so well done that it earned Thacker a nomination as a finalist for the Steve Connor Award for Investigative Science Journalism, presented by the Association of British Science Writers (ABSW). …

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