Paul Offit cautiously points out how public health officials have lied and how they continue to do so.

THORSTEINN SIGLAUGSSON OCT 25, 2023

“Should Scientists Openly Debate Vaccine Policies?” This is the title of video published by Dr. Paul Offit which appeared in transcript in MedpageToday on October 20th. Offit works at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and he is also a member of the FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee.

The answer to this question ought to be obvious. If the policies are flawed, of course scientists should debate them, in fact it is their duty to do so. But as Offit describes, this has often not been the case when it comes to the Covid-19 vaccine policies. He discusses two examples. The first has to do with the so-called “bivalent booster” vaccines offered in late 2021 and early 2022. There was no evidence those so-called boosters made any difference against the new strains they were supposed to be effective against. In fact all studies showed clearly how they made no difference at all against those new strains. Still, Offit says, public health officials kept pushing them as “dramatically better”. And that’s a lie of course.