Earlier this month, The Gateway Pundit revealed an article concerning the research performed by the famend Cleveland Clinic, ranked because the second-best hospital on this planet, which discovered that the upper variety of COVID-19 vaccine doses one receives, the upper the danger of an infection with COVID-19.
The research may be discovered now within the June 2023 version of Open Discussion board Infectious Illnesses, Quantity 10, Concern 6. The research is revealed at Open Discussion board Infectious Illnesses (OFID), whereby the research are totally peer-reviewed.
The analysis was performed with a big pattern measurement throughout the US healthcare system.
Individuals within the trial had been all Cleveland Clinic Well being System staff working at any Cleveland Clinic facility in Ohio on September 12, 2022, the primary day the bivalent vaccine was first made accessible to workers and lasted over 180 days.
From the research: “The chance of COVID-19 additionally diversified by the variety of COVID-19 vaccine doses beforehand obtained. The upper the variety of vaccines beforehand obtained, the upper the danger of contracting COVID-19.”
The research added: “The multivariable evaluation additionally discovered that the newer the final prior COVID-19 episode was, the decrease the danger of COVID-19, and the higher the variety of vaccine doses beforehand obtained, the upper the danger of COVID-19.”
Our report at The Gateway Pundit went viral—with virtually 24,000 shares on Instagram alone—to such an extent that it was lined in its entirety by Joe Rogan on his present, “The Joe Rogan Expertise,” the place he was joined by former Navy SEAL Andy Stumpf.
After it gained a lot consideration, Well being Suggestions group fact-checked our publish virtually two weeks later. The web site claimed that the “Cleveland Clinic research didn’t discover that taking extra COVID-19 vaccine doses causes elevated COVID-19 danger; affiliation alone doesn’t suggest causation.”
From Well being Suggestions’s bogus fact-check:
The declare that a Cleveland Clinic research discovered taking extra COVID-19 vaccine doses will increase an individual’s danger of COVID-19 went viral in early June 2023. An article by the Gateway Pundit containing this declare obtained greater than 5,800 engagements on Fb and Twitter, in accordance with the social media analytics software CrowdTangle.
The Gateway Pundit has a historical past of publishing inaccurate data and conspiracy theories, together with falsely alleging that the Parkland highschool capturing victims had been “disaster actors”. Podcaster and comic Joe Rogan made the identical declare on his podcast “The Joe Rogan Expertise” on 8 June 2023, citing the Gateway Pundit article as proof.
Nonetheless, the Cleveland Clinic research doesn’t present ample proof to help the declare and a number of other different revealed research contradict the declare, as we are going to clarify.
Well being Feed editor Flora Teoh, whom we’ll be discussing in additional depth beneath, reached out to the lead writer of the research, infectious illness doctor Nabin Shrestha, who clarified in an electronic mail that “affiliation shouldn’t be causation” and that “Any declare that our research exhibits a causal relationship between getting extra doses of the COVID-19 vaccine and better danger of an infection is fake”.
Observe that the phrase “affiliation shouldn’t be causation” was not explicitly talked about of their revealed research. Together with such a press release will help to keep away from misinterpretation and misuse of the research’s findings, significantly for readers who should not specialists within the discipline. Scientists usually use this phrase to remind readers and the general public that correlational findings don’t affirm causality.
Our legal professional at The Gateway Pundit, John Burns, wrote Well being Suggestions and demanded a right away retraction for Flora Teoh’s “reality examine” that was revealed on June 13, 2023.
From the letter, Burn states:
“In your “reality examine” of June 13, 2023, you defame TGP by stating that TGP falsely claimed that Parkland Excessive College capturing victims had been “disaster actors.” TGP by no means made any such assertion. Had you fact-checked this allegation, you’d know that. Please challenge a retraction instantly. Furthermore, you smear TGP with different false and off insults. We additionally demand that you simply challenge a retraction of your total “reality examine” article.”
“Removed from evaluating the credibility of media stories as Science Suggestions claims as its mission, your “reality examine” of TGP’s protection of the Cleveland Clinic research is a textbook research in propaganda. As a threshold matter, I observe that Science Suggestions is a member of the World Well being Group’s (“WHO”) “Vaccine Security Web,” which basically exists to spin and discredit any research, any entity, or anybody who means that vaccines may not be completely secure.”
“You could object to this characterization, however because of the previous three years of COVID-19 madness, the world higher understands the WHO’s relationship with Huge Pharma and Invoice Gates: which is to say, Huge Pharma and Invoice Gates dominate the WHO. It’s additionally true that Huge Pharma, although quite a few means, not the least of which is its revolving door on the CDC and the Nationwide Institutes of Well being, dominates analysis and publications on vaccines. Vaccines are huge enterprise, and all of those entities have a really massive curiosity in sustaining the profitability of their vaccine merchandise,” Burn stated.
“Science Suggestions’s membership within the “Vaccine Security Web” shines in your “reality examine.” You painting your article as goal, however you current your individual opinions as goal reality. For instance, throughout the first few paragraphs, you state:
KEY TAKE AWAY: COVID-19 vaccines are extremely efficient at lowering the danger of extreme illness and demise. Bivalent vaccines had been developed as a way to counter the extra contagious Omicron variant, which was first detected in November 2021. Because the safety offered by vaccination wanes over time, as does naturally acquired immunity, booster doses have been really helpful by varied public well being authorities, significantly for these at excessive danger of extreme COVID-19, as a solution to keep safety towards the virus.”Burns added, “The remainder of your article is a determined try to downplay the staggering findings of the Cleveland Clinic research by wordsmithing, for the aim of selling COVID-19 “vaccines.” Moderately than try to fight the research’s findings with knowledge, you interact in rank hypothesis, postulating all the causes the research may be mistaken.”
Our Counter-Argument
The Well being Suggestions article sought to problem the next purported statements by The Gateway Pundit:
Well being Suggestions Declare: “Increased Quantity Of COVID Vax Acquired, Increased RISK Of COVID”; “Folks Who Get Extra COVID Vaccines Extra More likely to Get the Virus, New Research Reveals”
TGP Response: Since Science Suggestions trades in fact-checking and accuracy, I remorse to tell you that you simply’ve misquoted my consumer: these statements – which you have got represented and introduced as direct quotes – seem nowhere in my consumer’s article. TGP did, nonetheless, state: “A groundbreaking research performed by the famend Cleveland Clinic, ranked because the second-best hospital on this planet, has discovered {that a} larger variety of COVID-19 vaccine doses obtained will increase the danger of an infection with COVID-19.” (Emphasis added).
Is that what the Research truly discovered? Sure, that’s actually what the research discovered. TGP’s assertion was an correct synopsis of a key discovering of the Research. How do we all know this? As a result of the Research stated so:
The chance of COVID-19 diversified by the section of the epidemic during which the research participant’s final prior COVID-19 episode occurred. In reducing order of danger had been these by no means beforehand contaminated, these final contaminated throughout the pre-Omicron section, and people final contaminated throughout the Omicron section (Determine 1). The chance of COVID- 19 additionally diversified by the variety of COVID-19 vaccine doses beforehand obtained. The upper the variety of vaccines beforehand obtained, the upper the danger of contracting COVID-19.
TGP went on to extensively quote the Research. As you will notice, the research is neither mischaracterized, neither is it misquoted. So, are you suggesting that the Research itself mischaracterizes its personal findings? So, by framing the “FULL CLAIM” as you probably did, you arrange a straw man on the outset of your article, and also you totally misrepresented my consumer’s statements to advance your individual propaganda.
Well being Suggestions Declare: TGP “downplayed” or “omitted” “any point out of the principle discovering of the research: that bivalent boosters improve safety towards COVID-19.”
TGP Response: Gateway Pundit didn’t omit any reference to effectiveness, and there was nothing constructive within the Research’s findings to “up play.” The research discovered total unfavourable results in getting one, and particularly extra, boosters. The research discovered 29% total effectiveness with SARS-CoV-2, and no important protecting impact towards XBB lineages.
Based on the WHO, the final threshold for a vaccine to be thought-about efficient ca a minimum of 50% for vaccines for illnesses like influenza. Within the case of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Meals and Drug Administration (FDA) initially set a benchmark of fifty% efficacy for COVID-19 vaccines. To win approval, any vaccine should be a minimum of 50% more practical than placebo in stopping the illness.
Given the abysmal efficiency of the “vaccines” within the Research, TGP didn’t downplay something. The Research discovered that, regardless of the modest “profit” of the bivalent “vaccine,” a booster or a number of boosters elevated the dangers of contracting some model of COVID-19. Accordingly, it stays to be seen what there was, if something, to “up-play.”
Well being Suggestions Declare: “Whereas the Cleveland Clinic research’s outcomes being at odds with different revealed research doesn’t essentially imply one thing is mistaken … with the research or that it needs to be dismissed, the truth that its outcomes weren’t reproduced by different research and are sudden does name for warning when deciphering its outcomes.” (Inside citations omitted).”
TGP Response: Whereas the fact-checker mentioned completely different research with outcomes differing from the Research, they failed to say that the Research itself mentioned a number of, large-scale research that got here to comparable conclusions.
Following our official retraction request, Well being Suggestions backtracked on its fact-check to our Instagram publish from “False Info” to “Partly False Info.”
You possibly can learn our full argument beneath:
Who’s Well being Suggestions Writer Flora Teoh?
In 2020, Flora Teoh fact-checked certainly one of Gateway Pundit’s articles on two California docs of immunology and homeowners of a Bakersfield Pressing Care facility. The 2 docs prompt solely the sick and immuno-compromised people should be quarantined, not wholesome folks. The 2 docs who see sufferers every day additionally prompt the virus has unfold broadly of their California group. This phenomena has additionally been reported in Boston, Miami, Santa Clara, Chicago and a number of other European international locations.
Practically a month after our reporting, Flora Teoh, who’s not a medical physician, claimed that the Bakersfield docs had been selling false data. Flora Teoh concluded the US docs weren’t telling the reality. Flora shouldn’t be even from the USA. She doesn’t stay in the USA. But, she believes it’s her proper to censor our speech even when she is totally mistaken!
The Gateway Pundit did a deep dive on Ms. Flora Teoh and that is what we discovered.
Ms. Flora Teoh is from an prosperous household in Singapore. Her household is Chinese language and has mainland China ties. It’s unknown in the event that they had been or are a part of the Communist regime, however Ms. Teoh’s way of life was extreme.
Miss Teoh traveled to Europe first-class and stayed at luxurious resorts.
Through XRVision
TGP found that Ms. Teoh obtained her Ph.D. in Singapore in 2017. In October 2017, she held a post-doc on the Singapore Company for Science, Know-how, and Analysis (A*STAR).
Ms. Flora Teoh was let go there after ten months due to ‘poor skilled match.’
In 7-2018, Flora joined Asian Scientist Journal as an intern however was let go after two months as a consequence of ‘performance-related’ points.
In Singapore, Ms. Teoh used her connections to get into the Dragon Boat races there:
XRVision reporting
Teoh is affiliated with a number of worldwide organizations which might be sponsored by Fb, Google, MacArthur Basis, Invoice and Melinda Gates Basis, Carnegie Basis, the Open Society Foundations, and Omidyar Community.
In November 2018, she joined Science Suggestions, a crypto Fb affiliate as a science editor.
Her assignments for 2020 had been to:
- Monitor and management political discourse associated to science
- Gatekeep and censor ‘conservative’ scientific content material
- Promote media that’s aligned with ‘progressive’ science
Flora Teoh is a contributor to a number of ‘fact-checking’ organizations comparable to Maldita.es, Worldwide Truth-Checking Community (IFCN), and the Worldwide Information Verification Community, which goals to advertise ‘good’ journalistic practices by combating the dissemination of what they time period fake-news. IFCN is a challenge of the Poynter Institute for media research that was created in 2015. Poynter will get its funding grants from entities comparable to: Google, MacArthur Basis, Invoice and Melinda Gates Basis, Carnegie Basis, the Open Society Foundations and Omidyar Community.
Teoh’s organizations are a part of a world ‘progressive’ knowledge verification community that’s supported Open Society Foundations (Soros) and the Omidyar Community (Pierre Omidyar).
Omidyar can be funding the ‘Defeat Disinfo’ AI Info Warfare Platform to battle President Trump’s Covid-19 narrative. Each Soros and Omidyar have additionally sponsored The Intercept, a publication that launched paperwork stolen by Edward Snowden. In 2018, additionally they launched the Luminate platform that has distributed over $314 million to finance ‘progressive’ journalistic initiatives all over the world. Well being Suggestions is certainly one of these initiatives.
Ms. Teoh is much left. She bragged about studying corrupt former FBI Director Jim Comey’s e-book:
Ms. Teoh’s writings as a “Science Editor” for entities like Fb and Google are contaminated together with her left-wing bias:
Ms. Teoh is the standard far-left “Truth checker” utilized by entities like Google and Fb.
She has a sketchy file and connections to China, George Soros, and the Gates Basis.
There was no method that two California docs of immunology had been going to get a good evaluation from Ms. Teoh, Fb, George Soros or the Gates Basis. Immediately we all know their evaluation was appropriate and Miss Teoh was utterly mistaken. However she was capable of smear them and censor their voices. And she or he did this from abroad!
Fb is now overtly utilizing far-left operatives with hyperlinks to China and Soros to silence US Medical doctors within the discipline!
This shouldn’t be authorized.
Analysis and knowledge offered by Yaacov Apelbaum
