If Those Who Pushed the ‘Covid’ Vaccines Go to Trial, This Book Should be Exhibit A for the Prosecution
Spiked: a shot in the dark, by Dr Clare Craig
I was sceptical about COVID-19 from the start. I was in Wuhan when it started (something I only realised in retrospect) and one year into the ‘pandemic’ not a single colleague or friend there had contracted it. I also knew that people were not dropping dead in the streets.
I was not in denial about the existence of a novel virus (to which I eventually succumbed), but I was unconvinced that it posed the existential threat that was presented in the media. After all, I was in Hong Kong when SARS kicked off in 2003 and made regular visits during that ‘pandemic’. The outcome of SARS never matched the hysterical hype that accompanied it.
It took me longer to see through the COVID-19 vaccine scam. To enable me to travel, which was essential for my work, I was a willing recipient of the AstraZeneca vaccine. I happily waved my vaccine passport at airline officials on several visits to Europe and the United States.
Nevertheless, given the low risk from COVID-19, I was also convinced from the health perspective the vaccines were largely unnecessary. And then I started to investigate their efficacy and discovered, much to my consternation, that the COVID-19 vaccines – all of them – were virtually useless. In fact, an early piece of correspondence in the totally COVID-19-orthodox Lancet laid it out explicitly in 2021 by presenting the absolute risk reduction (ARR) and numbers needed to treat (NNT) for the whole range of COVID-19 vaccines.
Their efficacy, in terms of absolute risk reduction, hovered around 1% and the number needed to treat to prevent a single infection was in the hundreds. Given the low case fatality rate, a calculator was not required to work out that, to prevent a single death from COVID-19, the NNT was probably in the thousands.
The above preamble to this review of Dr Claire Craig’s excellent book Spiked: a shot in the dark is presented merely to demonstrate that, even to me as a hardened COVID-19 sceptic and someone with a son who had a stroke because of repeated Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines, the book was still a marmalade dropper.
Somewhere along the line I had somehow managed to miss the fact that the COVID-19 vaccines, with respect to Covid infection, were not only useless, they were worse than useless. People vaccinated with Covid vaccines were more, not less, likely to contract COVID-19 than those who remained unvaccinated. Dr Craig demonstrates this clearly and repeatedly using real data and referring to real studies.
If this is the case, therefore, why is this fact not more widely known? In fact, how has this not been headline news, ever? COVID-19 sceptics will be aware of the reasons which include deception, data manipulation, outright lying, repeated plugging of a false narrative and, of course, suppression and silencing of anyone who dared to counter the prevailing narrative on any aspect of the COVID-19 regime. The fact that the negative efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccines, which I have now studied quite intensively, was news to me shows how effectively the suppression of COVID-19 or vaccine scepticism was implemented.
Naturally, the author, a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathology, suffered at the hands of the regime, coming under investigation by her professional body, the General Medical Council (GMC). As someone who also came under investigation by my professional body, the Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC), I was struck by the almost identical wording used in Dr Craig’s indictment to mine. This strongly suggests that we both suffered at the hands of a coordinated campaign of suppression. In passing, I must thank the author for support in her capacity as a member of the Health Advisory & Recovery Team (HART) via a co-signed letter to the NMC with Dr Ros Jones, also of HART.
Regarding the purported efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccines, Dr Craig refers to the excellent work of statisticians Professors Martin Neil and Norman Fenton. While not using the term ‘cheap’ – the one used by Neil and Fenton – Dr Craig explains how it is possible to demonstrate the effectiveness of a vaccine even when the vaccine is not effective. The ‘cheap trick’ is one of classification, whereby people who are vaccinated are classified as unvaccinated up to a point when the effectiveness of the vaccine is supposed to kick in.
Thus, any illness or death in that initial period – usually two weeks – amongst the vaccinated is credited to the unvaccinated side of the ledger. As Neil and Fenton point out in Fighting Goliath, a vaccine with absolutely no benefit can be shown to be effective merely by the application of the cheap trick.
Incidentally, the cheap trick violates one of the key principles for measuring the outcome of clinical trials without which reputable medical journals such as the Lancet and the BMJ will not publish trial reports. The principle is that of intention to treat, whereby trial results are published based on how people are classified from the outset by their allocated arm (i.e., whether they are in the vaccinated or non-vaccinated group), not by their purported status based on rules of when the vaccine supposedly ‘kicks in’. By omitting this crucial analysis, the COVID-19 regime permitted, even encouraged, breaking the rules of good clinical trial practice.
Spiked is replete with examples of how COVID-19 vaccine data, properly considered, repeatedly show that the vaccines led, paradoxically, to increased risk of COVID-19. In many cases, those developing the vaccines and those with an interest in promoting the pro-vaccine narrative knew that the data did not support their cause. Others, possibly too thick to appreciate the subtleties of examining such data and desperate to have a solution to what they believed was a deadly pandemic (I include prime ministers, presidents and health secretaries) were caught up in what Dr Craig frequently refers to as a ‘pedal-to-the-metal’ mentality. However, as she also indicates, the pedal was to the metal without anyone at the steering wheel.
