Kirsch said via email that his attempts to promote fluvoxamine are being curtailed. First, lets ask: what do people do when they get so rich that they dont need more money? It worked for a while. More than a year after Covid-19 turned into a pandemic, there are few therapies that have proven to work. Luvox was taken off the market in the U.S. following reports that one of the Columbine shooters, Eric Harris, had been taking the drug at the time of the tragedy. One good example would be Peru, in January 2021. It would be hard to disentangle deaths from covid and from the vaccine. No one should be promoting drug treatments for COVID until there is rigorous clinical trial evidence of their effectiveness. Kirsch provided no evidence for his claim about the Covid vaccine being "the most dangerous vaccine." He went on to make several other unsubstantiated statements. It matters what a country does to control transmission inside the country, just as much as it matters controlling what comes in. He had no knowledge of it. And thats not a suspiciously large number, because 8,000 people die every day in America. Why? Opens in a new tab or window, Share on LinkedIn. After I had passed everything but the actual physical exam in the exam room, the physician asked me the usual questions -- and I took the opportunity to mention the new (Oct 2022) relaxed FAA PR parameters on the EKG. Whats going on there? How antivaxxers laid the groundwork to blame COVID-19 vaccines for Damar Hamlin's cardiac arrest. Heres a proof that Crawfords blog posts are wrong: In the first post, Crawford divides up countries of the world into different groups: For the 23 nations marked in green, there was a rise in excess deaths starting after vaccination campaigns began. nose bleeds, anal leakages, and the unbelievable swelling of the male reproductive apparatus, one in three people in the US will develop shingles, making unsupported claims during the pandemic, freeze the spike protein in the shape it has before unlocking the door to our cells, that protein becomes stuck inside the membrane of the cell that makes it, all 12 members of the scientific advisory board of his COVID-19 company to resign, declined a request for its emergency use authorization, what Steve Kirsch did back in December 2020, Kirsch pre-emptively accuses Obama and his friends, shouts at reporters and sends them emails in all caps, One of Last Centurys Most Influential Social Science Studies Is Pretty Bad. Scientists and clinicians are studying a host of drugs and therapeutics to create a new line of defence against the virus but clinical trials are yet to lead to conclusive evidence on any of these. Many people in the 3rd world dont have access to vaccines. And why did they do that quietly without notifying the public or the mainstream media? If instead of treating people in four days after symptoms, they treat people five days after symptoms..its set up for failure. Thats not possible. Fluvoxamine is the poster child of the COVID-19 Early Treatment Fund (CETF). Theyve left just enough bread crumbs that only this one scrappy substack blogger can figure it out. . The reason for that is simple: it would make it crystal clear that the vaccines are unsafe. Not so much. Kirsch's COVID-19 Early Treatment Fund seemed tailor-made for the research Lenze and Reiersen were conducting, and when Lenze heard about it, he quickly fired off a grant proposal. Could the vaccines be helping? Alex Berenson is making over $700,000 per year on substack. He built some other cool startups, but he never became a household name. Sign up for. If we cherry-pick these reports to scare people, we should also share post-vaccination reports claiming nose bleeds, anal leakages, and the unbelievable swelling of the male reproductive apparatus. Safer and more effective than COVID vaccines! Does COVID-19 Mess with the Immune System? Those were not all vaccine deaths, because we only started vaccinating people on December 14th. He tackled what for others might have been a devastating blow with his characteristic gusto working with world-renowned scientists to develop an experimental treatment. Then if you meet the parameters you are allowed to pass the exam and get your medical certificate. A few countries that work are Australia, New Zealand, Norway, Denmark, and South Korea. 219 episodes. You may opt-out by. Steve Kirsch is a serial entrepreneur who, at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, had a good idea. It failed in an RCT for late treatment. I told him it was because there are too many pilots that would otherwise have failed the exam, and that I believe this is because of the jabs. Gavin Newsom, left, receives a Moderna COVID-19 vaccine booster shot from California Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly at Asian Health Services in Oakland,. So far, thats perfectly reasonable. By the next day, half of the elevated troponin levels had come back into the normal range. We should already know this is false. Its totally possible that the covid vaccines have some dangerous side effects. May 20, 2020. It should kill you whether you take it in the United States or Australia or New Zealand or Iceland or Japan. Get yourself a copy of. I don't think the doctor signing the class 1 medical certificate has any say in whether you pass or not. Thats a lot of people who will be very upset when they realize the vaccine they took to reduce their chance of dying from COVID actually worked in reverse making it: Be hospitalized from COVID and other diseases. Time on them did not come cheaply and . When an outbreak first starts, CFR can be high because testing doesnt ramp up quickly enough. . In a Twitter post, he has offered $1 million to anyone who can identify a confounder that better explains these results (the money will be donated to the winner's medical research cause of choice, he said). Mr Kirsch said that his claim that heart attacks happen 71 times more often following Covid-19 vaccines compared to any other vaccines was based on data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)'s Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS). There might be risks beyond that, it might have taken out some 80-year-olds in nursing homes. Steve could have gotten the drug approved by just spending more of his money to fund a larger trial. There has been at least one case report of acute fluvoxamine toxicity and death. A few people have died from blood clots. But kids are indestructible so a 30% injury rate in kids translates into a higher rate for adults. Steve might be right about some things. I think the way it works is, you get your EKG in the medical examiner's office during your visit, and the EKG is immediately forwarded to the FAA. So when this [COVID-19] came along, I approached it in the same way.. The other blog post is also wrong, but its a bit more subtle, its harder to tease apart how Crawford is lying. Vaccine Safety Research Foundation, entrepreneur, philanthropist, environmentalist Medical & Health Los Altos Hills, CA stevekirsch.substack.com Joined May 2009 201 Following 271.9K Followers Tweets & replies Media Pinned Tweet Steve Kirsch Debunking Steve Kirsch's latest claims about covid vaccine deaths | by The Gift Of Fire | Microbial Instincts | Medium 500 Apologies, but something went wrong on our end. I can tell you I have done nothing but lose money on this endeavor," he said in an interview. People might thank him, they might not Bill Gates has saved a lot of lives, lots of people hate him for it. They also have no excess deaths. They held the debate and Steve got owned. Think Im kidding about how they game the trials? Ive seen this kind of reasoning throughout the pandemic. On page 43 of his document, Steve claims there are 771,066 excess deaths in America and 600,000 covid deaths. You don't have to trust THEIR data anymore. It should kill you in Hawaii as easily as in California. To the best of my knowledge, the risks of vaccines are small and getting the shot is safer than getting the virus. All of them are underfunded and not being tested enough, or quickly enough. Meanwhile, his wifes hand started shaking after receiving the vaccine. And its the same thing with every category. Its a real shame. In early 2021, Steven Kirsch, computing entrepreneur, medical philanthropist and vaccine skeptic, made this claim: "This vaccine seeks out your daughter's ovaries and instructs the cells in the ovaries to turn out a very toxic spike protein. Steve says the difference of 171,000 deaths hides the vaccine deaths. In the US, possible vaccine deaths are filed in VAERS reports. In Norway, vaccinations began on December 27th. the shoulder muscle) comes from a study of 13 Moderna-vaccinated people that reported extremely low levels of it in the blood of 11 of them using ultralow detection technology. Obviously, a new drugs patent can be very profitable when the drug is brought to market, and it can pay for that drugs research and development (as well as the R&D behind a number of other drugs that didnt pan out). news Trial supports use of fluvoxamine in patients with mild COVID-19. It will be published in The Epoch Times later this week. The FDA described Steve Kirsch's statements on COVID-19 vaccines as "not based in science." Public testimony at a US Food and Drug Administration meeting claimed that more lives are lost to COVID-19 vaccines than are saved by the shots. They can make changes every month. Its an advice that we have for other diseases and for other viruses. The fact that the FAA *quietly* changed the EKG parameters for pilots suggests that the vaccine is causing a huge number of pilots to fail their screening. Europe would have to be mislabeling vaccine deaths as covid deaths, as well, so its more like 40 countries in on the plot. Steve is welcome to prove me wrong and write a check. And his answer to his opponents is straight out of the quack handbook: debate me, bro! On The Dr. Drew Show, Kirsch said that shingles is something that the FDA knows is caused by the [COVID-19] vaccine, sort of the retriggering of shingles, before boldly claiming that shingles numbers are off the charts for this particular vaccine.. Dr David Ho (known for key research on HIV and AIDS) wrote a famous editorial years ago on how to treat HIV. A simple, easy way to reduce your risk of getting COVID by over 70%. In the US, most VAERS deaths were reported over a span of 34 months: If all the deaths happened over 3 months, that means excess mortality should spike by 20% for those 3 months. Even prominent antivaxxer Steve Kirsch is healthy and well, despite being fully-vaccinated against COVID-19! Hed end up the target for the conspiracy theories, not the source. One of the drugs, Fluvoxamine, showed a 3060% reduction in hospitalizations in a large trial. Its also going to explain why nursing homes have lost up to 33% of their residents in 12 months where before they were losing only 1 or 2% a year. To stop undermining the credibility of his own movement. Example video title will go here for this video. The fund is managed by Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, which will disburse grants that are recommended in coordination with research being undertaken by CETFs Scientific Advisory Board. Also, if you are a paid subscriber, youll be able to view the reader comments which are as valuable as the method. Kirsch, who had received Modernas COVID-19 vaccine, talked to the carpet cleaner who came to his house. So I think you can probably use their data to double check Crawfords analysis if youd like to run the numbers for yourself: In general, CFR graphs are noisy enough that its hard to see anything but the largest effects in them. FALSE: Steve Kirsch, the FDA advisor, said that Covid-19 vaccines killed 150,000 Americans. That indicated heart damage in over 20% of pilots screened (The Epoch Times will release the exact number). Refresh the page,. This article about misleading claims from anti-vaccine activist Steve Kirsch was written by Dorit Rubinstein Reiss, Professor of Law at the University of California Hastings College of the Law (San Francisco, CA), who is a frequent contributor to this and many other blogs, providing in-depth, and intellectually stimulating, articles about vaccines, medical issues, social policy, and the law. I just had an FAA class 1 medical exam yesterday. Covid is a clotting disease, so mild cases are causing some people to die of heart attacks or strokes. Gold medalists spend their lives thrilled that they won. Business for his own telemedicine site began to pick up in December 2020, after senate testimony by Pierre Kory, MD, of the Frontline COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC). And Steves project didnt even fund the large trials that proved fluvoxamine successful, that was done by two other charities (the Rainwater Foundation and Fast Grants). Our work in funding early treatments for COVID was featured on60 Mi nut es. The two arguments we can repurpose is that in every single case, you must treat it early and you must treat it hard that way youll get better results. View link in a new tab . In the 3 months prior to vaccines, excess deaths were running at 5.3%. The evidence is crystal clear. After all, you took the vaccine of your own free will. The government just tells you: take the vaccine, its safe. But it was on The Dark Horse Podcast, a show that has devolved into soft-spoken conspiracy mongering, that Kirsch, in conversation with Dr. Robert Malone, put his finger on why he thought the COVID-19 vaccines were so harmful. However, this unsubstantiated claim actually came from Steve Kirsch, an independent speaker unaffiliated with the FDA, a YouTube video of the meeting shows. It was crazy because it said that cabal controls the media and all the tech companies but the cabal isnt strong enough to control Youtube. Steve KirschPhoto: The COVID-19 Early Treatment Fund. If that sounds absurd to you, then feel free to quit reading. It just shows that claims like 150,000 vaccine deaths in the US are absurd. On The DarkHorse Podcast, we will explore questions that matter, with tools that work. Opens in a new tab or window, Visit us on TikTok. by Because the CDC isnt telling doctors to recommend it. That means Steve actually thinks there were less than 500 deaths, or hes afraid that someone could win that prize. They widened it by a lot. The change is important, because it proves what Steve actually thinks. Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz, an epidemiologist and science communicator, is a bit more charitable in his assessment: there is no evidence it impacts COVID-19 mortality, but it could still provide modest benefit or modest harm. And theyd all be making up fake hospital records to go along with the fake covid deaths. He just needs to make honest claims and build his credibility back. It turns out this argument fails, too, because there are many countries that had no excess deaths, even when old people were getting the shots. Teenage suicide normally goes up during the school year and down during summer vacation. I think proxalutamide is very interesting. Demonizing vaccines is very fashionable these days in contrarian circles. "Most people with early COVID get better on their own, so you can't say that a drug is effective until you've shown it's better than placebo, or some other comparison, in a controlled trial," said Joffe. Its hard to stop believing in a covid conspiracy theory because you have to admit that you have harmed people: Heres the sad part: we still need cheap, generic drugs to treat covid. It literally takes just a few seconds a day to do. Then Crawford makes the assumption that the CFR went up because vaccine deaths got smuggled in to the covid death numbers, while cases stayed the same. Tag: Steve Kirsch Letter to the Stanford Daily. Why is that? The government has also done some things to hurt their own credibility. That would be a 5% increase in excess mortality if the vaccine deaths were spread out over the full year. Or 1,000 people. Kirsch made many allegations in his presentation about the dangers of COVID-19 vaccines. Here is the change log where you can see the change listed (see page 4): Here is what the policy was before the change. Over the course of his career, hehas founded more than seven companies, including Propel Software, Mouse Systems Corporation, Frame Technology Corporation, and Infoseek all dedicated to improving computer software and tech. Maybe Im a glutton for punishment. Others are investigational and only available in clinical trials. Im not a published researcher, but Im pretty sure that cause comes before effect. Three other vaccine sceptic newsletters, from tech entrepreneur Steven Kirsch, virologist Robert Malone and anonymous writer Eugyppius, generate about $300,000 between them. Because they falsify his argument. I am asymptomatic. As recently as this spring, Steve Kirsch and his COVID-19 Early Treatment Fund (CETF) were riding high. Thats strong evidence that vaccines dont cause many deaths. If it was due to COVID, it would have happened well before now. CFR gets to over 20%: Thats not the result of vaccines, which didnt get sent to Peru until February 9th. on 301 kids. In other words, the 29% rate of injury was a lower bound of injury. @hjametx made some graphs to show this clearly: Hjametx graphed this for 100 countries. But there is an ethical problem here, according to Steven Joffe, MD, MPH, chief of medical ethics at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. He created the search engine Infoseek and a bunch of other companies (Mouse Systems, FrameMaker, OneID, Propel Software, and M10). What we can say with increasing confidence, he writes, is that it appears less and less likely that we will end up finding a benefit for the drug.. Im awaiting an appointment with. Looking for COVID-19 'Miracle Drugs'? Steve Kirsch hopes to help treat COVID-19 early by funding research that uses existing drugs. On Jan 6, my first class medical was deferred, due to 2nd AV block, Mobitz type 2 (see picture of EKG with diagnosis). But the FDA described the statements as "not based in science," and medical experts say the comments are . With little government funding available for such work, Kirsch founded the Covid-19 Early Treatment Fund (CETF), putting in $1 million of his own money and bringing in donations from Silicon Valley luminaries: the CETF website lists the foundations of Marc Benioff and Elon Musk as donors. Hes equally known for his philanthropic work across a wide variety of environmental, medical, local and planet-safety causes so prolific that Hillary Clinton presented him with a National Caring Award in 2003. This narrative is going to start falling apart at an accelerated rate. Crawford has decided to exclude all islands. They found that 29.24% of the participants developed cardiac injuries within days after they got the second shot: But heres the most important part about that study that nobody points out: None of the tests that were done in the Thailand study included doing a cardiac MRI with contrast on all the participants since that would be expensive and invasive. "May 2021 saw the lowest number of COVID-19 deaths, with 205 among the . As a thank you to all my paid subscribers, Im going to remind you again what it is (Ive already written about it in the past, but Im going to add some more details). Articles highlighting fluvoxamine for the early outpatient treatment of COVID-19 have also appeared in Science News and Kaiser Health News. He adds that SendGrid, the marketing tool used to email large lists of people, has disabled his account. For some men, the ultimate status game is saving the world. He left the board of his own company and resigned as CEO. When we look at Kirschs central claims, we do not find a smoking gun. In the case of this other prize, regarding Mathew Crawfords blog posts, Steves million dollar bet has the caveat that you need to be an academic and you need to get the proof published in a medical journal (even though the arguments themselves are just blog posts on substack). 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If the vaccines were as deadly as Steve thinks, youd expect a big 20% spike in excess mortality, while they were rolled out: There is no sign of a 20% increase. The peak death rate will be in January and decline over time since it is based on when the oldest people were vaccinated. And, this blogger claims that you can learn the truth too, you just have to pay him $5 a month. A guy like Mathew Crawford probably cant hack it in terms of discovering new covid drugs or treatments, but he can compete at being one of the best guys to lie about covid vaccines. Experiments that should yield either result A or B show us C, instead. 13 min read. Which is what Steve Kirsch did back in December 2020. The standard term for this debate tactic is gish gallop, its a trick where you just throw out so much bullshit that your opponent doesnt have the time to respond to it all. The 23 countries hes pointed to must be lying by mislabeling massive numbers of vaccine deaths as covid deaths.