By Patricia Adams and Lawrence Solomon
“COVID-19 vaccines didn’t cause monkeypox outbreak,” stated a May 24 Associated Press factcheck article citing a plethora of experts at CDC, WHO and academic institutions who debunked the claim. AP provided the article as a public service, saying: “This is part of AP’s effort to address widely shared misinformation, including work with outside companies and organizations to add factual context to misleading content that is circulating online.”
Two days later, a Reuter’s Fact Check joined the monkeypox public service effort, followed by an Agence France Press Fact Check in early June. “Monkeypox not a side effect of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine,” stated AFP, exonerating Pfizer’s mRNA vaccine, a vaccine of particular concern.
The latest of such denials came this week with Factcheck.org’s “Four False Claims About Monkeypox,” also in the public interest. As its editor notes, FactCheck.org is one of several organizations working with Facebook to debunk misinformation shared on social media.
Oddly, while many articles in the mainstream press debunk the theory that covid vaccines spawned the monkeypox outbreak, no mainstream article propounds the theory. The censors won’t allow any article questioning the orthodoxy to occur in a mainstream publication, no matter how credible the questioners might be, despite the immense public interest in why monkeypox is suddenly a threat.
The latest shutdown of unapproved monkeypox commentary occurred two weeks ago when Twitter locked out Prof. Shmuel Shapira, the Israeli government’s pick to develop a coronavirus vaccine when he held the post of Director General of the Israel Institute for Biological Research (IIBR).
Shapira’s c.v. includes founder and head of the Department of Military Medicine of the Hebrew University Faculty of Medicine, Deputy Director General of the Hadassah Medical Organization, Director of the Hebrew University Hadassah School of Public Health and some 110 peer-reviewed scientific articles.
As head of the IIBR, Shapira held the most senior medical-scientific position in Israel, one of the most scientifically advanced countries on Earth, yet that wasn’t good enough for the health gurus at Twitter, who locked his account to prevent him from spreading dangerous views.
Shapira had tweeted that “Monkey pox cases were rare for years. During the last years a single case was documented in Israel. It is well established the mRNA vaccines affect the natural immune system. A monkeypox outbreak following massive covid vaccination: Is not a coincidence.”
Whether a coincidence or not will not be officially known any time soon – governments and their public health authorities, so intent on suppressing dissenting views, will avoid funding any study that might shed light on whether covid vaccines have compromised our natural immune systems, leading to the monkeypox outbreak.
Until then, the battle will be waged in alternative universes with a continuing string of factchecks performed as a public service on behalf of public health agencies denying the concern of a skeptical public and scientists such as Shapira that link covid vaccines and monkeypox.
A day after his offending tweet was expunged from the Twitterverse, and Twitter unlocked his account, Shapira ironically tweeted “Safe & Efficient” while linking to the OpenVaers COVID Vaccine Adverse Event Reports, which showed 1,357,937 reports, including 29,790 deaths, 132,676 urgent care cases and 170,151 hospitalizations.
In a following tweet, the censors somehow missed a reference to monkeypox, when Shapira listed other possible outcomes from a natural immune system compromised by covid vaccines:
“Myocarditis, fatal arrhythmias, 20% increase in strokes, facialis, Herpes Zoster, tinnitus (ear ringing), gynecological excessive bleeding, monkey-pox, obscured long term side effects,” ending his tweet with another ironic “No worries. Be happy.”
While the public health agencies continue to enforce their narrative that covid vaccines are safe and effective, their assurances may be wearing thin. Pew’s public opinion polling shows confidence in public health officials such as those at CDC to be steadily falling, from 79 percent in March 2020, at the outbreak of coronavirus, to 50 percent in January of this year. Most Americans – 57 percent – “say changes in health officials’ recommendations on how to slow the spread made them wonder if public health officials were holding back important information.”
That trend is likely to continue, since fact checkers – typically journeymen journalists who are entirely unqualified to be judging scientific matters – are increasingly being seen as the incompetents they are, as are the public health agencies that are happy to dictate prescriptions to society, so long as they don’t need to answer for them.
Patricia Adams
Patricia Adams is an economist and the President of the Energy Probe Research Foundation and Probe International, an independent think tank in Canada and around the world. She is the publisher of internet news services Three Gorges Probe and Odious Debts Online and the author or editor of numerous books. Her books and articles have been translated into Chinese, Spanish, Bengali, Japanese, and Bahasa Indonesia. She can be reached at patriciaadams@probeinternational.org.
Lawrence Solomon
Lawrence Solomon is an Epoch Times columnist, a former National Post and Globe and Mail columnist, and the executive director of Toronto-based Energy Probe and Consumer Policy Institute. He is the author of 7 books, including "The Deniers," a #1 environmental best-seller in both the United States and Canada. He can be reached at LS@lawrencesolomon.ca.