Does it seem like The Joker Alex Berenson is pretty cavalier about the Pfizer dumps.
"We already knew that the data on pregnant women wasn't in..." (paraphrase)
Then why were pregnant women still mandated to get the injections in many companies?
It seems to me that he is just bored with the COVID beat, and is getting his clock cleaned by Naomi Wolf and others now. Seems like he doesn't have any clue what life is still like for many trying to live with ongoing issues.
I relied on Alex at the beginning of covid. Now I think he just wants to be famous and get back on Twitter. His dismissal of this new Pfizer data surprised me as well. I don’t think he has the desire or capacity to parse it for errors like EGM et al. do.
I accept that many of you have legitimate concerns about Alex, but do we really have throw him completely under the bus? There are scads of people who had never heard of el gato malo until Alex directed them here. Alex was the first one I ever saw on a major TV network pointing out the spectacular failure of the vaccines. Right now, he is the only one I'm aware of who has gotten a case against Twitter to the discovery phase (something that Trump was unable to do). Censorship is a huge scandal that needs to be exposed, and Alex is doing that. I suspect the lawsuit is consuming much of his efforts now and is pulling him away from researching covid. I have no idea why he attacked Malone, but he did a lot of good before that.
I may not have found eugyppius or egm as quickly without AB but I would have found them eventually. Sometimes you outgrow something or someone. I’ve outgrown AB. His attacks on Malone and RFK Jr. are sophomoric and tactics of losers. His refusal to accept that he might be wrong, his close mindedness and doubling down on mistakes...I don’t really take him seriously anymore and I don’t consider him to be on team red pill.
Wow, some of you guys are harsh, but I'll take your opinion into account when I look deeper into some of this stuff. BTW, I am definitely on team red pill.
I still keep a free subscription to his Substack, I’ve never paid him. He just posted some interesting stuff about Vermont. I listen to a lot of people I generally disagree with, I think that’s healthy.
I'm with you on Alex. He did a lot of good regarding Covid reporting, especially in the beginning when the Craziness was just beignning. He was one of the first to push back hard and had a lot of reach that other smaller players didn't back then. I always be grateful to him for that.
I can accept him or anyone having different opinions, morals etc. than me. I cannot accept a person not acknowledging when they have been proven wrong.
It's that simple for Berenson: he was dead wrong about Ivermektin, but can't argue his point nor can he own up to having been wrong.
Compare to Igor Chudov for one who always post immediate corrections in bold, when he discovers he's made a mistake or overstaed something.
Berenson simply dropped the mask hiding that he is at heart an NYT-writer with the liberal values and opinions to match; all his beef with twitter is, is him posturing and trying to get out in front to be the face of a free speech movement.
You can probably expect a tell-all book from Berenson with him crying about how he braved the depths of toxic right-wing yadda yadda cliché boilerplate libturd jargon. Oh, and expect him to name-dop being jewish, as if that should matter.
Funny, I discovered Berenson *after* I found el gato malo. I had already ben reading lots of stuff from lots of truth tellers and honestly had never heard of Alex Berenson. Perhaps because I gave up entirely on the NYT quite a while ago.
Same for me. I never followed him on Twitter but did follow him on substack for awhile. His arrogance was too much for me and his disrespect for Dr. Malone was over the top.
Agreed. Alex was good on Joe Rogan too, and has been leading one of the key fights against censorship alongside Mark Changizi, Daniel Kotzin and lawyer Jenin Younes.
Don't agree with his take on everything, but we want as many different voices batting for our team, don't we?
He strikes me as a mere self-promoter. People like Gato, Phil Kerpen, AJ Kay, Kuldorff, Bhattacharya, and many others on Rational Ground are really trying hard to get at the truth. They make mistakes, as everyone does. but they are not exploiting this issue just to sell books or make themselves famous.
Oh agreed! It feels like he feels he is the one who determines values rather than honoring timeless values. After he broadsided Malone Alex lost my trust. And he misses the fact that Twitter is not a worthy hill to defend: even in its glory days it was Cesspool Central.
I dropped him when he tried to argue himself as being a free speech advocate in the same post he vehemently lays down the law that some words must be made illegal.
And his response when being shown data from a pan-African project which ran for more than 20 years and reaching hundreds of millions, using Ivermektin to combat parasitical infection after he, Berenson, had claimed it was a bad drug virtually never used on humans... oh dear.
I think he wears neurosis like a trophy t-shirt. He thought "former NYT journalist" was the magic cloak that would keep him respectable with that universe forever and he cannot bear not being part of the club anymore. So thin-skinned he tears every time he sneezes. Needs to be the smartest guy in the room and has come up against actual scientists and statisticians and can't handle the pain of being only a reporter and not a creator.
I never got the hullabaloo on Yarvin - Covid wise, I am pretty sure he totally fell for it - embraced it as just the wedge we needed to apply the heavy hand of the state - he was one of those guys enamored in early 2020 of the Chinese approach - oh! if only we could do that here. I could be wrong - there was one thing I read quickly. After that, as you say, "I don't" do Yarvin.
Seems like Alex is focused on vax efficacy, which is the safe play, as opposed to vax danger, trial fraud, etc. I’m less interested in reading him now. Prefer the true dissidents.
I agree. I think he wanted to be an anomaly from what MSM was/is reporting. But what he didn't count on was all the great researchers and substack writers that are putting in a great deal more effort than he ever did. He's up against some highly intelligent people that are relentless with their pursuit of the truth.
That's so true. I discovered him on Twitter, and I learned a lot from him. But now there are so many great Substack writers who formulate very informative posts, while he's still using Substack to basically send out a tweet. There's very little substance. And that's on top of the bashing of Malone and ivermectin, writing weird posts about Putin, etc. When my subscription runs out in June, I will not read him anymore.
I stopped following Berenson after his unprovoked, malicious character attack on Dr Malone during what should have been a united front & attack on our would-be murderers.
He is at best am attention whore seeking notoriety, at worst controlled opposition.
In all likelihood he is in way over his head, doesn't know how to read the data, doesn't have the background & deep understanding to understand the ramifications of various events, eg understand how impossible it would be to set up the Argentina size trial in few weeks its happened.
I seem to remember when Alex was on Twitter that he mentioned that Naomi Wolf had wanted to meet with him, and he'd refused. He felt like she was a conspiracy theorist or something. (He also refused to meet with Dr. Simone Gold.) I think he's worried about being connected to "the wrong people."
I had issues reading that post as well. Honestly, his reasoning was faulty. If the drug was not tested on pregnant women, how could it be deemed safe? Anyone recommending this poison should be held accountable, even primary care physicians. I am sick of hearing that excuse that “they had no choice”. I don’t believe that was an acceptable excuse during the Nuremberg trials. I am also weary of his knee jerk, self defense reaction to everything. I am not sure what his endgame is.
His dismissal of the reproductive issues kind of shocked me, especially in light of studies I've seen from NZ with something like 7x increase in miscarriages, and then today I read this:
It's hard to figure out, and possibly just the medical-pharmaceutical complex tripping over their own feet because they are too stupid and compromised to even see how idiotic they sound: Don't breastfeed, oh and there's a huge shortage of formula, and whatever you do, silly moms and dads who don't want your babies to starve, don't make your own formula.
The advice not to breastfeed is probably easy to explain, unfortunately, if reports are true that young (unjabbed) children getting hepatitis were all breastfed by mothers who had all had at least two jabs. So probably, ghastly though it may be, it is good advice. How many nursing babies have become sick and died as a result of their mothers getting the jab?
From what I've read elsewhere, the child hepatitis seems to be more prevalent in the Janssen jabs. Janssen used a gastrointestinal adenovirus vector platform (Adenovirus 26) which was not supposed to be able to replicate. However, it CAN replicate AND mutate into Adenovirus F41 which IS linked to hepatitis. Lo and behold, Janssen was recently discouraged to be used.
This is very frightening. I really feel for mothers with babies who aren't breastfeeding. Are doctors really advising jabbed mothers not to breastfeed? Most of the doctors I know are vaccine fanatics, and I can't imagine they'd give any information contrary to the narrative.
I thought Alex was useful until he dumped on therapeutics, and then I blocked him from my email list after the Malone debacle. He's just another east coast ass-clown-wannabe.
The fact (that Alex overlooks) is that no data was provided on most of the pregnancy outcomes. Considering the outcomes that were actually provided, it looks like a nightmare: 32 pregnancies/1 live birth & 5 still pregnant. Perhaps that tenacious feline will shed some light as to whether this is significant?
He basically said it's safe for pregnant women "we have a year of data". It's been exhausting, maybe he's just run out of energy or maybe he's finally nailing his colours to the mast.
I actually bought Berenson's book from Amazon, after someone recommended him as a pandemic commentator. I wrote a pretty scathing review, to the effect that it was all about him and how he was the sole brave, smart voice to speak up about the whole pandemic thing (I had not heard of him before that). It is obvious that he has no medical background, and his commentary lacks the thoughtful, in-depth analysis we have come to expect here on Substack. I still subscribe - but rarely read his pieces (which seem to be treating Substack like a substitute twitter).
i appreciated his twitter & still do appreciate his substack but i will say many ppl recommended (rightly so) scott atlas' book over berenson's when i was looking for xmas recommendations :)
Sarah, did you find the Atlas book revealing? What I mean by that is, does it tread new ground? We get so much substantive writing on Substack I worry there isn't much new to be learned. My understanding is the Atlas book takes a different perspective in telling us about the inner-workings of the Covid Advisory Panel. Do you recommend the book? Thank you!
Atlas' book does not cover new ground whatsoever regarding covid, the harms of lockdown, and the trajectory of the pandemic.
But the chapters detailing the chronology of what actually happened at the White House between August - November 2020 and the failings of its covid strategy -- both via the Coronavirus Taskforce fronted by Mike Pence and the covid comms team led by Jared Kushner -- are fascinating. You get a real insider's look into all the political games played by Fauci and Birx, and the way that Trump was undermined by his closest advisors and, rather tellingly, by his VP.
I recommend Atlas's book. Yes, it has a completely different perspective on the pandemic than the others I've read. It gives an insider's view of what was going on in the White House and with the COVID Task Force. One surprise is that Atlas gives a lot more space to how terrible Deborah Birx was than to Fauci and also states that Pence was close to her. Atlas tried to make the case for school openings, no mask mandates, and other common sense (scientific) responses, but others around Trump felt that Birx and Fauci had too much influence, and Trump would lose on election day. The one place that Atlas let me down was that he was very much a supporter of Operation Warp Speed and the shots. I don't know where he stands on them today.
Thank you for taking the time to respond. I have it on hold at our local library. I've heard him interviewed a few times now on his book and I would say that while he doesn't speak against the shots, it seems he takes a more "well, historically vaccines have been a useful tool in eradicating disease." I would love for someone to probe this topic a little more with him. Given his loyalty to "science" (and not Fauci as the representative of "science"), it's hard to imagine that he can't be at least a little bit skeptical of the results so far.
i agree with the comments above, & i do recommend it, i found it pretty interesting. also it came out before we had nearly as much data on the shots...i'm kinda curious if he's changed his mind on them at all.
I didn't read all of the replies to your post, Sage, but I also get the impression that Alex is not particularly enamoured with a large chunk of his readership. I get the sense many readers identify as traditional "conservatives" - a label Alex has made known does not apply to him. At least, he must feel some cognitive dissonance. It's interesting because people like Dr. Malone and Dr. Kory were, prior to Covid, definitely aligned more to the Left. While I can't speak to Dr. Kory, Dr. Malone seems to have rethought some of his political views.
Regarding not tested on pregnant women, the FDA had already put that information out there. Why was it mandated? That’s wasn’t either Pfizer or the FDA. It was the CDC that encouraged pregnant women to get the shot against all good sense, but even they never recommended mandating it. It started with Biden’s executive orders, and the individual organizations and companies kept it up even though the EOs didn’t apply to them or were ruled unenforceable by the courts.
The Pfizer fact sheets for recipients (vetted by the FDA) say:
“WHAT IF I AM PREGNANT OR BREASTFEEDING?
If you are pregnant or breastfeeding, discuss your options with your healthcare provider.”
Again, you don’t need any special document dump to get at this information.
Sure, Pfizer and FDA may have lied about what they knew, but anyone reading what they put out would have enough information to know that nobody should be compelled to take these vaccines, least of all pregnant or breastfeeding women, because they didn’t even have fake human trial data to support it.
“Available data on Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine administered to pregnant women are insufficient to inform vaccine-associated risks in pregnancy.”
and
“Data are not available to assess the effects of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine on the breastfed infant or on milk production/excretion.”
Then they go on to describe four studies on rats, with injections before and during pregnancy:
“In a reproductive and developmental toxicity study, 0.06 mL of a vaccine formulation containing the same quantity of nucleoside-modified messenger ribonucleic acid (modRNA) (30 mcg) and other ingredients included in a single human dose of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine was administered to female rats by the intramuscular route on 4 occasions: 21 and 14 days prior to mating, and on gestation days 9 and 20. No vaccine-related adverse effects on female fertility, fetal development, or postnatal development were reported in the study.”
So it is clear that as far as pregnancy is concerned, they only tested this stuff on rats.
Pfizer's conclusion from same doc: "There were no safety signals that emerged from the review of these cases of use in pregnancy and while breast feeding." Seems like the CDC just repeated Pfizer talking points. (And, like a lot of "science" lately, the conclusion does not follow from the data reported.)
Your points are valid, but I hear a whine of credentialism there. Since I'm not only his doorknob but an advocate as well, allow the contrary viewpoint. Specialist knowledge is helpful but often not available at all, or suspect if it is (e.g. conflicts of interest.) To cite what should be an obvious example: two years ago, a layman curious about the then-experimental mRNA "vaccines" and he could have deduced the following with only a little investigation: The targeted virus was of a type against which no successful vaccine had ever been developed. That alone argued against success of the present "Warp Speed" projects. Secondly, and most importantly, mRNA research had been around for two decades and had NEVER shown very promising results in either animal or human trials. Right there were several red flags. Of course there were many more. In sum, an informed layman would have said "hell no" to the proposed vaccines. You'll note that all this information was readily available two years ago, even before the pandemic if anyone had sought it out. No advanced knowledge of medicine, pathology or genetics required.
Don't need [to be] a weather man to know which way the wind blows, observed Dylan.
i read that too and stopped reading it. He doesnt know what he is talking about regarding pregnant women. My local hospital is having tons of stilbirths. Sad is so opinionated about stuff he cannot know that might lead a pregnant woman to take this crap.
There is most definitely a signal there, regardless of what Pfizer's docs say. One wonders how much longer the lid can be kept on all the collateral damage
I read him for a few months. He had some interesting stuff. His "Pandemia" was OK. But
after the strange attack on Malone, I decided my $5 would be better spent elsewhere. I haven't even checked his Substack in months. Nor, given your report, would I have any reason to revisit that decision.
So much to wrap my aging brain around- I skimmed these articles and since they are so well written get the "jist" of the matter ! Thank you- but when do you sleep? My cats sleep a LOT- you are a different breed for sure!
The one thing that gives me hope that this won't be covered up is the life and disability insurance companies. They are the ones left holding the bag for this scam, while pharma makes out like bandits. They have a huge financial incentive to expose this.
If we start seeing Washington clamoring for insurance company bailouts it will be a pretty sure sign the fix is in.
Nice couple of posts Gato, I was having trouble piecing together the parts from Jikky's often cryptic tweets, this is a great rundown.
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”
~ Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
We are living in a time where the scale of corruption and grift is unprecedented in history.
The infernal corporatist-fascist regime the progressives have inflicted upon us has reached its foreseen and inevitable apogee, where the State steals some 40% of the national wealth, distributing it to concentric circles of cronies, and enriching favored businesses through "public-private partnerships" and other scam euphemisms, at the expense of the rest of us.
And yet, as gato's "analytical ecosystem" demonstrates, we also live in a time where vast numbers of people have access to vast amounts of information and the ability to collaborate in parsing and analyzing the data to find the truth behind the empire of lies.
This is the struggle of our time.
Over two centuries ago, the American founders constructed a legal framework to restrain government and prevent tyranny. This framework has utterly failed and is unlikely to return.
We have the power and tools at our disposal to construct a new, more pragmatic, powerful and durable framework:
Well said. I do however think that our founding documents provide the proper framework. We just abandoned the necessary precepts along the way.
This is beautiful:
IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America. When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
Unfortunately, at least a plurality of the population views the underlying ideas as "extremist right-wing" and actually favor the long train of abuses and usurpations.
This vast herd of ignorant and gullible bovines will keep voting for their own enslavement, and ours, until we finally reach true democracy, for millennia know by thinking people as mob rule.
For too many reasons to delve into here, our lot will likely never again win at the polls under the current regime, so we must find another way to impose at least a modicum of accountability by exposing the mountebanks and rent-seekers for what they are.
When someone who is liberal but has become disaffected and wont toe the line, they will be marked as right-wing. Example - the SPLC going after Tim Pool.
I have to remember that the governing philosophy envisaged by the US Founding Fathers predicated its success on having a religious (or moral) people. I, like you, think the framework is sound - we, the people, are currently not.
This is literally the kind of shit I pulled in 10th grade chemistry class to make my lab report work after botching the experiment. “Uh …. let’s just make up that number.” I cannot believe these are actual medical officials. I can’t wait to see what else is unearthed. Well done, gato.
Ran into that all the time with pre-meddies in organic chemistry lab courses when I was doing research as an undergrad and later as a grad student. Lots of pre-meds were just as dishonest as they could be. Most of these guys got into med school and became docs. The ones we caught red-handed got reported to the prof and that was the end of them, some got Fs and one got kicked out.
Great analysis. My question is: while focusing on Pfizer are we ignoring Moderna a company with zippo clinical track record and deep ties to NIH? Is there a FOIA in the works for Moderna too? And the complacent NEJM who published these trials despite math errors in numbers of enrollees who were discontinued? Can we call into question the NEJM peer review process? Don’t try to contact the authors of Polack and Thomas (Pfizer 6 mos) studies. They have all left. Only deep Pfizer employees will address questions about data and even then they give inadequate answers.
"it’s been a stunning volte face from when gottleib was running the agency and they were truly the global gold standard. i’ve never seen a regulator devolve at such speed"
Sorry, I disagree. The FDA was junk for decades. They just were not under the microscope then as they are now.
Scott Gottlieb also sits on the board of ILLUMINA. The only company to genetically "sequence" the evil virus... Only in a lab and nobody can look at the data though...
When I first read the above highlighted quote I thought it was sarcasm. After reading RFK Jr book it supports your notion of corruption (maybe too politely said)
So they gave the site 4444 placebo group saline for two shots, and then gave them the pfizer serum for two shots after that. Does that mean that adverse affects from the serum shots were then attributed to having occurred in the placebo group? They knew the serum was harmful, so they had to harm the placebo group to make the harm look like something that had nothing to do with the study? That's pretty evil.
"they cannot bury us with data, we’re going to overwhelm them with capacity to read it."
It's been Game On and Grey poupon from the onset for me. The day they said, '15 days to fla..." I left a puff of smoke in my wake digging into the history of everything from masks to vaccines. I even read all 3200 of Fauci's leaked emails. Lotsa winners in there.
These people are completely oblivious to the fact there's an army of people watching and cataloguing EVERYTHING.
This reminds me of the election 2020 analysis. Lots of highly motivated, skilled data analysts producing damning evidence from all angles refuting the official results using publicly available documents. And then? Nothing. What’s different this time?
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 requires, among other things, that CEOs and CFOs of public companies certify the accuracy and fairness of reported financial statements, and that they have taken actions such that all material information is made known to them and that they have disclosed “to the registrant's auditors and the audit committee of the registrant's board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions): Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant's internal control over financial reporting.”
Hypothetically, what would you call misrepresentation, manipulation, hiding or falsifying data regarding safety and efficacy of products, thereby knowingly putting at risk the health and lives of perhaps billions of people in exchange for billions of dollars in profits? Immaterial fraud?
Fascinating stuff. The whole house of cards falls from the beginning. It’s going to take quite a lot to convince people of the corruption though. People are waking up one by one, but so many can’t get their heads out of the indoctrination since youth of ‘the government is here to protect you.’
I applaud all those who are relentlessly sifting through those documents and helping to uncover the biggest scandal in history!
Does it seem like The Joker Alex Berenson is pretty cavalier about the Pfizer dumps.
"We already knew that the data on pregnant women wasn't in..." (paraphrase)
Then why were pregnant women still mandated to get the injections in many companies?
It seems to me that he is just bored with the COVID beat, and is getting his clock cleaned by Naomi Wolf and others now. Seems like he doesn't have any clue what life is still like for many trying to live with ongoing issues.
Am I alone in this?
I relied on Alex at the beginning of covid. Now I think he just wants to be famous and get back on Twitter. His dismissal of this new Pfizer data surprised me as well. I don’t think he has the desire or capacity to parse it for errors like EGM et al. do.
I lost credibility with AB when he dismissed ivermectin and hydroxy as potential remedies and prophylaxis for the virus.
I accept that many of you have legitimate concerns about Alex, but do we really have throw him completely under the bus? There are scads of people who had never heard of el gato malo until Alex directed them here. Alex was the first one I ever saw on a major TV network pointing out the spectacular failure of the vaccines. Right now, he is the only one I'm aware of who has gotten a case against Twitter to the discovery phase (something that Trump was unable to do). Censorship is a huge scandal that needs to be exposed, and Alex is doing that. I suspect the lawsuit is consuming much of his efforts now and is pulling him away from researching covid. I have no idea why he attacked Malone, but he did a lot of good before that.
I may not have found eugyppius or egm as quickly without AB but I would have found them eventually. Sometimes you outgrow something or someone. I’ve outgrown AB. His attacks on Malone and RFK Jr. are sophomoric and tactics of losers. His refusal to accept that he might be wrong, his close mindedness and doubling down on mistakes...I don’t really take him seriously anymore and I don’t consider him to be on team red pill.
Wow, some of you guys are harsh, but I'll take your opinion into account when I look deeper into some of this stuff. BTW, I am definitely on team red pill.
I still keep a free subscription to his Substack, I’ve never paid him. He just posted some interesting stuff about Vermont. I listen to a lot of people I generally disagree with, I think that’s healthy.
I'm with you on Alex. He did a lot of good regarding Covid reporting, especially in the beginning when the Craziness was just beignning. He was one of the first to push back hard and had a lot of reach that other smaller players didn't back then. I always be grateful to him for that.
AB is a gateway drug to the red pill. He seems somewhere in between. That is a difficult space to inhabit I would imagine.
I can accept him or anyone having different opinions, morals etc. than me. I cannot accept a person not acknowledging when they have been proven wrong.
It's that simple for Berenson: he was dead wrong about Ivermektin, but can't argue his point nor can he own up to having been wrong.
Compare to Igor Chudov for one who always post immediate corrections in bold, when he discovers he's made a mistake or overstaed something.
Berenson simply dropped the mask hiding that he is at heart an NYT-writer with the liberal values and opinions to match; all his beef with twitter is, is him posturing and trying to get out in front to be the face of a free speech movement.
You can probably expect a tell-all book from Berenson with him crying about how he braved the depths of toxic right-wing yadda yadda cliché boilerplate libturd jargon. Oh, and expect him to name-dop being jewish, as if that should matter.
All this is why under the bus suits him best.
He threw himself under that bus with a vengeance.
Funny, I discovered Berenson *after* I found el gato malo. I had already ben reading lots of stuff from lots of truth tellers and honestly had never heard of Alex Berenson. Perhaps because I gave up entirely on the NYT quite a while ago.
Same for me. I never followed him on Twitter but did follow him on substack for awhile. His arrogance was too much for me and his disrespect for Dr. Malone was over the top.
Agreed. Alex was good on Joe Rogan too, and has been leading one of the key fights against censorship alongside Mark Changizi, Daniel Kotzin and lawyer Jenin Younes.
Don't agree with his take on everything, but we want as many different voices batting for our team, don't we?
Truth tellers often turn traitors due to bribes and/or blackmail.
I wish more people understood this. Sometimes the change is sudden, sometimes it's gradual.
When people start to pivot towards other (usually less controversial) topics, or suddenly start towing the line, they've likely had a "talking to".
J Campbell comes to mind, although he has always chosen his words carefully as to not get kicked of YT..
He strikes me as a mere self-promoter. People like Gato, Phil Kerpen, AJ Kay, Kuldorff, Bhattacharya, and many others on Rational Ground are really trying hard to get at the truth. They make mistakes, as everyone does. but they are not exploiting this issue just to sell books or make themselves famous.
Alex's arrogance knows no bounds. He's a psychopath IMO.
It is overwhelming and he would need an army of skilled volunteers.
Oh agreed! It feels like he feels he is the one who determines values rather than honoring timeless values. After he broadsided Malone Alex lost my trust. And he misses the fact that Twitter is not a worthy hill to defend: even in its glory days it was Cesspool Central.
Watching him pine for Twitter is like watching a battered wife yearning to go back to her asshole husband.
I dropped him when he tried to argue himself as being a free speech advocate in the same post he vehemently lays down the law that some words must be made illegal.
And his response when being shown data from a pan-African project which ran for more than 20 years and reaching hundreds of millions, using Ivermektin to combat parasitical infection after he, Berenson, had claimed it was a bad drug virtually never used on humans... oh dear.
Lol whut, I believe the PC-response is.
I think he wears neurosis like a trophy t-shirt. He thought "former NYT journalist" was the magic cloak that would keep him respectable with that universe forever and he cannot bear not being part of the club anymore. So thin-skinned he tears every time he sneezes. Needs to be the smartest guy in the room and has come up against actual scientists and statisticians and can't handle the pain of being only a reporter and not a creator.
I know. It's embarrassing, or would be if he had enough self-awareness. He's been a disappointment and I don't take much he writes seriously anymore.
Yeah...
https://sagehana.substack.com/p/give-em-hell-alex?s=w
I never got the hullabaloo on Yarvin - Covid wise, I am pretty sure he totally fell for it - embraced it as just the wedge we needed to apply the heavy hand of the state - he was one of those guys enamored in early 2020 of the Chinese approach - oh! if only we could do that here. I could be wrong - there was one thing I read quickly. After that, as you say, "I don't" do Yarvin.
Alex is controlled opposition.
Seems like Alex is focused on vax efficacy, which is the safe play, as opposed to vax danger, trial fraud, etc. I’m less interested in reading him now. Prefer the true dissidents.
I agree. I think he wanted to be an anomaly from what MSM was/is reporting. But what he didn't count on was all the great researchers and substack writers that are putting in a great deal more effort than he ever did. He's up against some highly intelligent people that are relentless with their pursuit of the truth.
That's so true. I discovered him on Twitter, and I learned a lot from him. But now there are so many great Substack writers who formulate very informative posts, while he's still using Substack to basically send out a tweet. There's very little substance. And that's on top of the bashing of Malone and ivermectin, writing weird posts about Putin, etc. When my subscription runs out in June, I will not read him anymore.
I stopped following Berenson after his unprovoked, malicious character attack on Dr Malone during what should have been a united front & attack on our would-be murderers.
He is at best am attention whore seeking notoriety, at worst controlled opposition.
In all likelihood he is in way over his head, doesn't know how to read the data, doesn't have the background & deep understanding to understand the ramifications of various events, eg understand how impossible it would be to set up the Argentina size trial in few weeks its happened.
I agree, he doesn't have the nouse to read the data and I found his attack on Robert Malone bewildering.
I seem to remember when Alex was on Twitter that he mentioned that Naomi Wolf had wanted to meet with him, and he'd refused. He felt like she was a conspiracy theorist or something. (He also refused to meet with Dr. Simone Gold.) I think he's worried about being connected to "the wrong people."
Yeah, but he still got booted off twitter 😆
Funny, because in more "centrist" lockdown sceptic circles (for lack of a better word) he's chucked into the same bucket as Wolf et al.
If I'm not mistaken, he also blocked The Last American Vagabond Ryan Cristian over weed.
Ryan is like the most fundamentally decent human being in this whole space.
Yeah, but AB is extremely anti drugs. Including weed. So that would be a block decent human or not.
Not saying he was right btw
I had issues reading that post as well. Honestly, his reasoning was faulty. If the drug was not tested on pregnant women, how could it be deemed safe? Anyone recommending this poison should be held accountable, even primary care physicians. I am sick of hearing that excuse that “they had no choice”. I don’t believe that was an acceptable excuse during the Nuremberg trials. I am also weary of his knee jerk, self defense reaction to everything. I am not sure what his endgame is.
His dismissal of the reproductive issues kind of shocked me, especially in light of studies I've seen from NZ with something like 7x increase in miscarriages, and then today I read this:
https://colleenhuber.substack.com/p/10-to1-pregnancy-failure-to-success?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxMDM1NTgxOCwicG9zdF9pZCI6NTQzMzkwMDAsIl8iOiJXT1hpVCIsImlhdCI6MTY1MjIxOTA2OCwiZXhwIjoxNjUyMjIyNjY4LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMzgwNjU0Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.z2qOCb0mUWpMFLeQz-RAdSoKfe-nfNatc-hLoTkTlaQ&s=r
What do you think the baby formula "shortage" is all about...? Doctors are advising jabbed mothers to not breastfeed...
It's hard to figure out, and possibly just the medical-pharmaceutical complex tripping over their own feet because they are too stupid and compromised to even see how idiotic they sound: Don't breastfeed, oh and there's a huge shortage of formula, and whatever you do, silly moms and dads who don't want your babies to starve, don't make your own formula.
The advice not to breastfeed is probably easy to explain, unfortunately, if reports are true that young (unjabbed) children getting hepatitis were all breastfed by mothers who had all had at least two jabs. So probably, ghastly though it may be, it is good advice. How many nursing babies have become sick and died as a result of their mothers getting the jab?
From what I've read elsewhere, the child hepatitis seems to be more prevalent in the Janssen jabs. Janssen used a gastrointestinal adenovirus vector platform (Adenovirus 26) which was not supposed to be able to replicate. However, it CAN replicate AND mutate into Adenovirus F41 which IS linked to hepatitis. Lo and behold, Janssen was recently discouraged to be used.
This is very frightening. I really feel for mothers with babies who aren't breastfeeding. Are doctors really advising jabbed mothers not to breastfeed? Most of the doctors I know are vaccine fanatics, and I can't imagine they'd give any information contrary to the narrative.
On top of that, the FDA is recommending that people not make homemade/DIY formula:
https://www.yahoo.com/gma/parents-know-amid-national-baby-150547753.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall
Well, if the FDA says not to, the best course is definitely to make it. At this point, not sure I'd trust production by manufacturers.
It's either that, or letting the baby starve. Apparently, the latter is what the FDA is recommending...
I thought Alex was useful until he dumped on therapeutics, and then I blocked him from my email list after the Malone debacle. He's just another east coast ass-clown-wannabe.
Dead to me after side-swiping Dr. Malone on air.
The fact (that Alex overlooks) is that no data was provided on most of the pregnancy outcomes. Considering the outcomes that were actually provided, it looks like a nightmare: 32 pregnancies/1 live birth & 5 still pregnant. Perhaps that tenacious feline will shed some light as to whether this is significant?
https://colleenhuber.substack.com/p/10-to1-pregnancy-failure-to-success?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxMDM1NTgxOCwicG9zdF9pZCI6NTQzMzkwMDAsIl8iOiJXT1hpVCIsImlhdCI6MTY1MjIxOTA2OCwiZXhwIjoxNjUyMjIyNjY4LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMzgwNjU0Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.z2qOCb0mUWpMFLeQz-RAdSoKfe-nfNatc-hLoTkTlaQ&s=r
He basically said it's safe for pregnant women "we have a year of data". It's been exhausting, maybe he's just run out of energy or maybe he's finally nailing his colours to the mast.
I actually bought Berenson's book from Amazon, after someone recommended him as a pandemic commentator. I wrote a pretty scathing review, to the effect that it was all about him and how he was the sole brave, smart voice to speak up about the whole pandemic thing (I had not heard of him before that). It is obvious that he has no medical background, and his commentary lacks the thoughtful, in-depth analysis we have come to expect here on Substack. I still subscribe - but rarely read his pieces (which seem to be treating Substack like a substitute twitter).
i appreciated his twitter & still do appreciate his substack but i will say many ppl recommended (rightly so) scott atlas' book over berenson's when i was looking for xmas recommendations :)
Sarah, did you find the Atlas book revealing? What I mean by that is, does it tread new ground? We get so much substantive writing on Substack I worry there isn't much new to be learned. My understanding is the Atlas book takes a different perspective in telling us about the inner-workings of the Covid Advisory Panel. Do you recommend the book? Thank you!
Atlas' book does not cover new ground whatsoever regarding covid, the harms of lockdown, and the trajectory of the pandemic.
But the chapters detailing the chronology of what actually happened at the White House between August - November 2020 and the failings of its covid strategy -- both via the Coronavirus Taskforce fronted by Mike Pence and the covid comms team led by Jared Kushner -- are fascinating. You get a real insider's look into all the political games played by Fauci and Birx, and the way that Trump was undermined by his closest advisors and, rather tellingly, by his VP.
I recommend Atlas's book. Yes, it has a completely different perspective on the pandemic than the others I've read. It gives an insider's view of what was going on in the White House and with the COVID Task Force. One surprise is that Atlas gives a lot more space to how terrible Deborah Birx was than to Fauci and also states that Pence was close to her. Atlas tried to make the case for school openings, no mask mandates, and other common sense (scientific) responses, but others around Trump felt that Birx and Fauci had too much influence, and Trump would lose on election day. The one place that Atlas let me down was that he was very much a supporter of Operation Warp Speed and the shots. I don't know where he stands on them today.
Thank you for taking the time to respond. I have it on hold at our local library. I've heard him interviewed a few times now on his book and I would say that while he doesn't speak against the shots, it seems he takes a more "well, historically vaccines have been a useful tool in eradicating disease." I would love for someone to probe this topic a little more with him. Given his loyalty to "science" (and not Fauci as the representative of "science"), it's hard to imagine that he can't be at least a little bit skeptical of the results so far.
I would add that it could have been a tighter, better organized book. But it does give a lot of interesting insights.
i agree with the comments above, & i do recommend it, i found it pretty interesting. also it came out before we had nearly as much data on the shots...i'm kinda curious if he's changed his mind on them at all.
I didn't read all of the replies to your post, Sage, but I also get the impression that Alex is not particularly enamoured with a large chunk of his readership. I get the sense many readers identify as traditional "conservatives" - a label Alex has made known does not apply to him. At least, he must feel some cognitive dissonance. It's interesting because people like Dr. Malone and Dr. Kory were, prior to Covid, definitely aligned more to the Left. While I can't speak to Dr. Kory, Dr. Malone seems to have rethought some of his political views.
Regarding not tested on pregnant women, the FDA had already put that information out there. Why was it mandated? That’s wasn’t either Pfizer or the FDA. It was the CDC that encouraged pregnant women to get the shot against all good sense, but even they never recommended mandating it. It started with Biden’s executive orders, and the individual organizations and companies kept it up even though the EOs didn’t apply to them or were ruled unenforceable by the courts.
The Pfizer fact sheets for recipients (vetted by the FDA) say:
“WHAT IF I AM PREGNANT OR BREASTFEEDING?
If you are pregnant or breastfeeding, discuss your options with your healthcare provider.”
Again, you don’t need any special document dump to get at this information.
Sure, Pfizer and FDA may have lied about what they knew, but anyone reading what they put out would have enough information to know that nobody should be compelled to take these vaccines, least of all pregnant or breastfeeding women, because they didn’t even have fake human trial data to support it.
Here’s what the Fact Sheets for health care providers say (these statements also appear on the FDA-approved package insert for Comirnaty):
https://www.fda.gov/emergency-preparedness-and-response/coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19/comirnaty-and-pfizer-biontech-covid-19-vaccine
“Available data on Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine administered to pregnant women are insufficient to inform vaccine-associated risks in pregnancy.”
and
“Data are not available to assess the effects of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine on the breastfed infant or on milk production/excretion.”
Then they go on to describe four studies on rats, with injections before and during pregnancy:
“In a reproductive and developmental toxicity study, 0.06 mL of a vaccine formulation containing the same quantity of nucleoside-modified messenger ribonucleic acid (modRNA) (30 mcg) and other ingredients included in a single human dose of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine was administered to female rats by the intramuscular route on 4 occasions: 21 and 14 days prior to mating, and on gestation days 9 and 20. No vaccine-related adverse effects on female fertility, fetal development, or postnatal development were reported in the study.”
So it is clear that as far as pregnancy is concerned, they only tested this stuff on rats.
Pfizer's conclusion from same doc: "There were no safety signals that emerged from the review of these cases of use in pregnancy and while breast feeding." Seems like the CDC just repeated Pfizer talking points. (And, like a lot of "science" lately, the conclusion does not follow from the data reported.)
Berenson has no hands on knowledge of how clinical trials work. He has little knowledge of disease pathology and no background on mRNA technology.
He’s not a great source for breaking info.
Your points are valid, but I hear a whine of credentialism there. Since I'm not only his doorknob but an advocate as well, allow the contrary viewpoint. Specialist knowledge is helpful but often not available at all, or suspect if it is (e.g. conflicts of interest.) To cite what should be an obvious example: two years ago, a layman curious about the then-experimental mRNA "vaccines" and he could have deduced the following with only a little investigation: The targeted virus was of a type against which no successful vaccine had ever been developed. That alone argued against success of the present "Warp Speed" projects. Secondly, and most importantly, mRNA research had been around for two decades and had NEVER shown very promising results in either animal or human trials. Right there were several red flags. Of course there were many more. In sum, an informed layman would have said "hell no" to the proposed vaccines. You'll note that all this information was readily available two years ago, even before the pandemic if anyone had sought it out. No advanced knowledge of medicine, pathology or genetics required.
Don't need [to be] a weather man to know which way the wind blows, observed Dylan.
i read that too and stopped reading it. He doesnt know what he is talking about regarding pregnant women. My local hospital is having tons of stilbirths. Sad is so opinionated about stuff he cannot know that might lead a pregnant woman to take this crap.
There is most definitely a signal there, regardless of what Pfizer's docs say. One wonders how much longer the lid can be kept on all the collateral damage
I agree. It’s so odd he wants to argue about this.
I read him for a few months. He had some interesting stuff. His "Pandemia" was OK. But
after the strange attack on Malone, I decided my $5 would be better spent elsewhere. I haven't even checked his Substack in months. Nor, given your report, would I have any reason to revisit that decision.
Makes sense. Sometimes I wonder why I persist. Interesting to see a POV from an intelligent, non science-minded person.
So much to wrap my aging brain around- I skimmed these articles and since they are so well written get the "jist" of the matter ! Thank you- but when do you sleep? My cats sleep a LOT- you are a different breed for sure!
Hopefully when Pfizer loses their immunity, the government will as well. This has been the greatest con job in the history of the world.
The one thing that gives me hope that this won't be covered up is the life and disability insurance companies. They are the ones left holding the bag for this scam, while pharma makes out like bandits. They have a huge financial incentive to expose this.
If we start seeing Washington clamoring for insurance company bailouts it will be a pretty sure sign the fix is in.
Nice couple of posts Gato, I was having trouble piecing together the parts from Jikky's often cryptic tweets, this is a great rundown.
https://bailiwicknews.substack.com/p/american-domestic-bioterrorism-program
I have 6 tabs open in my browser right now with links to various Substacks! So much to read. Thanks for the link.
Whoa- only glimpsed at your link so far, but it’s shocking.
Yeah. They've made getting out of this mess illegal. Then the WHO will finish us off.
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”
~ Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
We are living in a time where the scale of corruption and grift is unprecedented in history.
The infernal corporatist-fascist regime the progressives have inflicted upon us has reached its foreseen and inevitable apogee, where the State steals some 40% of the national wealth, distributing it to concentric circles of cronies, and enriching favored businesses through "public-private partnerships" and other scam euphemisms, at the expense of the rest of us.
And yet, as gato's "analytical ecosystem" demonstrates, we also live in a time where vast numbers of people have access to vast amounts of information and the ability to collaborate in parsing and analyzing the data to find the truth behind the empire of lies.
This is the struggle of our time.
Over two centuries ago, the American founders constructed a legal framework to restrain government and prevent tyranny. This framework has utterly failed and is unlikely to return.
We have the power and tools at our disposal to construct a new, more pragmatic, powerful and durable framework:
Leave the vermin nowhere to hide.
Well said. I do however think that our founding documents provide the proper framework. We just abandoned the necessary precepts along the way.
This is beautiful:
IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America. When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
It is indeed beautiful.
Unfortunately, at least a plurality of the population views the underlying ideas as "extremist right-wing" and actually favor the long train of abuses and usurpations.
This vast herd of ignorant and gullible bovines will keep voting for their own enslavement, and ours, until we finally reach true democracy, for millennia know by thinking people as mob rule.
For too many reasons to delve into here, our lot will likely never again win at the polls under the current regime, so we must find another way to impose at least a modicum of accountability by exposing the mountebanks and rent-seekers for what they are.
When someone who is liberal but has become disaffected and wont toe the line, they will be marked as right-wing. Example - the SPLC going after Tim Pool.
And Greenwald and Taibbi, FFS.
These people have become so vacuous and absurd that the adjectives vacuous and absurd have become understatements.
I assume that by "these people" you mean those going after Greenwald and Taibbi, not Greenwald and Taibbi themselves.
Pronouns can be slippery creatures (not such a secret these days.)
I have to remember that the governing philosophy envisaged by the US Founding Fathers predicated its success on having a religious (or moral) people. I, like you, think the framework is sound - we, the people, are currently not.
Well said! That quote has been running through my mind quite a bit recently.
After seeing that enrollment surge just before the FDA meeting, I have to ask: were Dominion machines involved?
Drop boxes and mules.
This is literally the kind of shit I pulled in 10th grade chemistry class to make my lab report work after botching the experiment. “Uh …. let’s just make up that number.” I cannot believe these are actual medical officials. I can’t wait to see what else is unearthed. Well done, gato.
Ran into that all the time with pre-meddies in organic chemistry lab courses when I was doing research as an undergrad and later as a grad student. Lots of pre-meds were just as dishonest as they could be. Most of these guys got into med school and became docs. The ones we caught red-handed got reported to the prof and that was the end of them, some got Fs and one got kicked out.
Biggest Fraud in human history!
Great analysis. My question is: while focusing on Pfizer are we ignoring Moderna a company with zippo clinical track record and deep ties to NIH? Is there a FOIA in the works for Moderna too? And the complacent NEJM who published these trials despite math errors in numbers of enrollees who were discontinued? Can we call into question the NEJM peer review process? Don’t try to contact the authors of Polack and Thomas (Pfizer 6 mos) studies. They have all left. Only deep Pfizer employees will address questions about data and even then they give inadequate answers.
Thank you for doing the deep dive needed.
Can someone explain why moderna is not releasing
these are released because of a court order in an ongoing lawsuit.
as far as i know, no one has forced a moderna disclosure.
i don't think any equivalent documents are in the public sphere.
Is it because Pfizer was given full approval as Comirnity , whereas Moderna is still only under an EUA so a FOIA can’t be done?
That sucks
Who forced Pfizer to disclose? Is anyone working for moderna disclosure?
I think it was ICAN that brought the initial suit against Pfizer.
I’m willing to bet that the Moderna documents will be even worse.
Can’t imagine
Whenever I feel overwhelmed with the weight of global "health" tyranny, El gato re-energizes my will to fight for our children.
"it’s been a stunning volte face from when gottleib was running the agency and they were truly the global gold standard. i’ve never seen a regulator devolve at such speed"
Sorry, I disagree. The FDA was junk for decades. They just were not under the microscope then as they are now.
Scott Gottlieb also sits on the board of ILLUMINA. The only company to genetically "sequence" the evil virus... Only in a lab and nobody can look at the data though...
Lots of sequences here - https://nextstrain.org/ncov/gisaid/global/6m - click on a dot and you can get a sequence - https://nextstrain.org/ncov/gisaid/global/6m?s=hCoV-19/Italy/LOM_Sacco_Var_R15462/2022
I should have been more clear. The "sequence" has only been "sequenced" on ILLUMINA equipment.
When I first read the above highlighted quote I thought it was sarcasm. After reading RFK Jr book it supports your notion of corruption (maybe too politely said)
So they gave the site 4444 placebo group saline for two shots, and then gave them the pfizer serum for two shots after that. Does that mean that adverse affects from the serum shots were then attributed to having occurred in the placebo group? They knew the serum was harmful, so they had to harm the placebo group to make the harm look like something that had nothing to do with the study? That's pretty evil.
I thought that those were unblinded controls offered the vax, but you have a good point: which group are they in for long term follow up?
I cant paste the link here. Search CCCA Canadian Covid Care Alliance "more harm than good" and you,ll find the answer.
Got it. Will watch!
Do it seated, it,s mind boggling ;)
"they cannot bury us with data, we’re going to overwhelm them with capacity to read it."
It's been Game On and Grey poupon from the onset for me. The day they said, '15 days to fla..." I left a puff of smoke in my wake digging into the history of everything from masks to vaccines. I even read all 3200 of Fauci's leaked emails. Lotsa winners in there.
These people are completely oblivious to the fact there's an army of people watching and cataloguing EVERYTHING.
This reminds me of the election 2020 analysis. Lots of highly motivated, skilled data analysts producing damning evidence from all angles refuting the official results using publicly available documents. And then? Nothing. What’s different this time?
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 requires, among other things, that CEOs and CFOs of public companies certify the accuracy and fairness of reported financial statements, and that they have taken actions such that all material information is made known to them and that they have disclosed “to the registrant's auditors and the audit committee of the registrant's board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions): Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant's internal control over financial reporting.”
Hypothetically, what would you call misrepresentation, manipulation, hiding or falsifying data regarding safety and efficacy of products, thereby knowingly putting at risk the health and lives of perhaps billions of people in exchange for billions of dollars in profits? Immaterial fraud?
Remember, they got Al Capone for tax evasion…
Fascinating stuff. The whole house of cards falls from the beginning. It’s going to take quite a lot to convince people of the corruption though. People are waking up one by one, but so many can’t get their heads out of the indoctrination since youth of ‘the government is here to protect you.’