Shoddy Reasoning from Kirsch's Opponent
Post #1093
Steve Kirsch is debating someone for $2 million being held in an Escrow account. The winner gets the passkey to open the account and retrieve the money. But I found shoddy reasoning from Steve’s opponent, regarding implications surrounding FDA pulling J&J vaccine after confirming 9 deaths were caused by it:
At bottom, Steve’s opponent claims that the onus of proof is on Steve to come up with the reason why — after having pulled J&J jabs over just 9 deaths — 1000x more deaths are claimed for other jabs and they have not been pulled yet. The argument goes like this:
If FDA was willing to pull J&J over just 9 deaths, then people with claims of 1000x deaths (~9,000 deaths) must be lying, because the FDA would have pulled the other jabs, given how they pulled the J&J jabs after just 9 deaths.
But look at the VAERS reports of deaths for J&J:
Throwing the argument back, you can ask what the heck is going on if 2,894 reports of deaths were made for J&J jabs. The insinuation is that hundreds of “fake” VAERS reports exist for each real or confirmed one — but that sounds absurd. I would have bought the argument that up to 10 unconfirmable reports would go with each real one.
But the insinuation that hundreds of uncomfirmable reports go with each confirmable one is an-order-of-magnitude too far. When researchers double-checked the VAERS reports of GBS from flu shots for 1990 up to 2003, a high value of 82% of them checked out (Guillain-Barre` Syndrome was verified).
It’s just too much of a stretch to now stand on a soapbox and claim, even indirectly, that some tiny fraction of 1% of VAERS reports check out.
Reference
[for a serious disorder, GBS, 82% of the VAERS reports were confirmable and legitimate] — Haber P, DeStefano F, Angulo FJ, Iskander J, Shadomy SV, Weintraub E, Chen RT. Guillain-Barré syndrome following influenza vaccination. JAMA. 2004 Nov 24;292(20):2478-81. doi: 10.1001/jama.292.20.2478. PMID: 15562126. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/199859