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Yet Another Attempt at Downplaying Worrying Results
The results of a new study strongly confirm concerns over vaccine-related menstrual problems. Why do the authors knowingly misinterpret their own findings?
I have previously written about a tendency by medical study authors to downplay their results if they don’t conform with the official narrative regarding the Covid-19 vaccines. A study done in Iceland and published last summer found how double-vaccinated individuals were 42% more likely to become reinfected than others. But in their conclusions the authors mentioned a “slightly higher” probability.
Now, a new study is out that deals with female menstruation problems following vaccination. Nothing to worry about, according to mainstream media reporting. And in fact, in their Conclusions section, the authors say:
Weak and inconsistent associations were observed between SARS-CoV-2 vaccination and healthcare contacts for bleeding in women who are postmenopausal, and even less evidence was recorded of an association for menstrual disturbance or bleeding in women who were premenopausal. These findings do not provide substantial support for a causal association between SARS-CoV-2 vaccination and healthcare contacts related to menstrual or bleeding disorders.
No reason to worry? Really? Let’s take a look at the Results section now:
2 580 007 (87.6%) of 2 946 448 women received at least one SARS-CoV-2 vaccination and 1 652 472 (64.0%) 2 580 007 of vaccinated women received three doses before the end of follow-up. The highest risks for bleeding in women who were postmenopausal were observed after the third dose, in the one to seven days risk window (hazard ratio 1.28 (95% confidence interval 1.01 to 1.62)) and in the 8-90 days risk window (1.25 (1.04 to 1.50)). The impact of adjustment for covariates was modest. Risk of postmenopausal bleeding suggested a 23-33% increased risk after 8-90 days with BNT162b2 and mRNA-1273 after the third dose, but the association with ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 was less clear. For menstrual disturbance or bleeding in women who were premenopausal, adjustment for covariates almost completely removed the weak associations noted in the crude analyses.
So, actually significant risk, for postmenopausal even after adjustments, but for premenopausal the “weak associations” removed after adjustment for covariates. Why those huge adjustments? Anyhow, let’s look at the actual numbers by product for postmenopausal.
First Pfizer: Adjusted risk 1.41 (41% higher than unvaccinated) after 1-7 days from third-dose and 1.23 (23% higher) after 8-90 days. “Weak and inconsistent?” Really?
Now for Moderna: Adjusted risk 1.33 (33% higher than unvaccinated) after 1-7 days from first dose and 8-90 days after the third. “Weak and inconsistent?” Really?
Finally AZ: 1.24 adjusted risk 1-7 days after first does, 1.21 after the second (24% and 21% higher than unvaccinated, respectively). “Weak and inconsistent?” Really?
Last October, the European Medicines Agency finally recommended adding menstrual problems to the already long list of Covid-19 vaccine side effects, after extensive research. About time, after the flood of reports from women (well, who listens to women anyway?) The results of the new study strongly underpin those concerns, as clearly demonstrated above.
The question that remains is why the glaring discrepancy between the actual results and the authors’ stated conclusions?
The authors know full-well that most journalists neither read nor understand scientific studies; they know how their highest ideal of verification is appeal to authority (“the authors say, therefore it is true”). Every scientist knows this. Therefore, it is simply the authors’ responsibility to correctly portray and highlight their actual findings. But instead they try to hide them.
Why?
Is the answer to be found in the Competing interests chapter perhaps?
Competing interests: All authors have completed the ICMJE uniform disclosure form at www.icmje.org/disclosure-of-interest/ and declare: MG reports personal fees from AstraZeneca, Gilead, GSK/ViiV, MSD, Biogen, Novocure, Amgen, Novo Nordisk, outside the submitted work. SL reports consulting for Scandinavian Biopharma and is an employee of AstraZeneca since 16 January 2023. The work in this article was performed before this employment commenced. FN reports prior employment at AstraZeneca until 2019, and ownership of some AstraZeneca shares. MB and YX declare no competing interests. AS reported participating in research funded by governmental agencies, universities, Astellas Pharma, Janssen Biotech, AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Roche, (then) Abbott Laboratories, (then) Schering-Plough, UCB Nordic, and Sobi, with all funds paid to Karolinska Institutet, outside of the submitted work. RL reported receiving grants from Sanofi Aventis paid to his institution outside the submitted work; and receiving personal fees from Pfizer outside of the submitted work.
If there are still any real journalists out there, how about picking up the phone or hitting the keyboard and actually asking?
Would be a nice change, wouldn’t it?
Thanks for this. I'm sorry to say, with counted exceptions, the journalists as we knew them are mostly on dial-tone. Fortunately, it seems many of us who have other professions have been stepping up to the plate-- such as yourself.
Thorsteinn, your post prompted me to go looking and I found Teryn Gregson's interview of Tiffany Parotto, as mentioned lower down in this comments section. I felt it really needed a transcript, so I did a brief excerpt. I would warmly suggest that anyone interested in this subject listen to the entire interview.
We The Patriots USA
Menstrual Irregularities, Studies, Testimonies & Solutions with MyCycleStory | Ep 56
https://rumble.com/v28nock-menstrual-irregularities-studies-testimonies-and-solutions-with-mycyclestor.html
Feb 8, 2023
TRANSCRIPT - BRIEF EXCERPT
2:48
TIFFANY PAROTTO: [referring to Project Veritas report*] Yeah, I mean this is everything I've been trying to do for the past two years which is give women their voice back, all of these things we know have been happening since the launch of the covid vaccine and their voices have been taken from them through censorship and through the silencing of their stories, from their doctors, everyone, and so to have this information finally come out that they've known all along is just as sad as it is satisfying. Now, hopefully we can draw the attention that we need on this issue so that we can fix it and stop it.
TERYN GREGSON: Absolutely. I was connected with you through Dr. Thorp, OB GYN** who's also been trying to sound the alarm bells on what's been happening to women through this shot. And so, tell us your background, on how you got involved in this cause.
TIFFANY PAROTTO: Sure. So I'm a professional communications and marketing strategist and
I've worked in corporate America for about 15 years now, working in all types of industries. But I started my journey in digging into health freedom and these types of issues about 10 years ago, before I got pregnant with my daughter. I had a very close friend whose daughter was severely vaccine-injured from the DTaP*** vaccine which is on the childhood schedule. And when I got pregnant, she basically told me, Tiffany, not everything is what it seems, just do your research, feel confident in your decisions in the way you would a baby carrier.
And so I did exactly that and I found out pretty quickly that, although the issue is extremely complex, it comes down to some very basic risk versus benefit scenarios, and at the end of the day it was very simple, simple and obvious for me to discover that the vaccines on the childhood vaccine schedule are not only unnecessary but actually dangerous.
And so that got me into the world of kind of exploring and getting to know the people in the vaccine risk awareness and health freedom movement. And basically I've been working to protect the lives of my children, my two young girls, so that they can continue to live with the regular population and have the same civil rights as everybody else regardless of their health vaccine status.
And so when covid hit, of course, being in the world that I was in, I was blessed to be working with a group called Millions Against Medical Mandates at the time, and that is where this conversation started about what the heck is going on with women's cycles.
TERYN GREGSON: I love that you tell that story because mine is very similar in that you know I arrived at this knowledge and this informed consent, you know, as I was also having my children and, you know, I feel very fortunate that God put that in front of me in the same that He did you and protected your family from that. And so I love that that's your story, and then you're taking it a step further now and helping these women because you know, Tiffany, I felt like, I don't know about you, but you know so many women were telling, my friends you know were telling me, like, you know, either I haven't had my period since I got it, or I had a, you know, very very heavy period for a long long chunk of time and then now I haven't had it anymore, or, or it just, you know, all the board on how extreme of side effects regarding their menstrual cycle that that they've had.
TIFFANY PAROTTO: Yeah, and that's exactly how this started. So obviously because of being involved in the health freedom movement I have access and am friends with a lot of really brilliant doctors. People like Dr. Christiane Northrup**** and Dr. Jim Thorp, a world-renowned OB GYN. And I actually had just a friend of mine come to me with issues. And she's like, I'm spotting, it's really weird, I don't know what is going on. And we didn't think anything of it. And then on social media we actually heard more people with similar issues.
And then another friend of mine posted and said, Man! Most of my friends are having menstrual issues, could there be something going on here?
And so I said, wow, maybe there is, and I went to a couple of doctors, and Dr. Chris Northrup, Dr [inaudible] who is pediatrician, Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, Dr. Lee Merritt, Dr. Carrie Madej* and basically, we had this discussion of, yeah, there absolutely is something going on. There is a very good likelihood that this shot could be affecting women's menstrual cycles. And there is even a potential possibility that women who haven't been vaccinated are having repercussions just having been recently around somebody who is vaccinated.
And so we started this conversation on Instagram and overnight it went completely viral. There over 200,000 new subscribers, massive, thousands and thousands of comments and engagements. And then over the course of two weeks we were reporting on conversations around this. What could this be? What could be causing it? What do we need to investigate more?
And more and more, thousands and thousands of women were coming forward with horrific, horrific stories of their experiences. And I'm talking everything, I mean we're talking blood clots the size of your fist, we're talking no bleeding, we're talking excessive bleeding, miscarriage, bruising, the strangest symptoms, and, were happening to women.
And then after probably two weeks of this lighting fire on social media the censorship gods came in. And I, I firmly believe to this day that the conversation around what's going on with women's cycles is part of the, is part of the the switch that flipped, that led the censorship gods to decide that they're not even going to try to hide anymore, they're shutting it down.
And so we had a FaceBook group with over 21,000 testimonies completely erased. Every account that was connected to My Cycle Story, our group, was shut down. My name can't be used on anything anymore without getting completely shut down. All of the people, all the conversations, all of the testimonies completely evaporated overnight.
9:24
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TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES
Teryn Gregson is a professional broadcaster based in Florida who previously covered golf and is now advocating for health freedom and her Christian faith. For her podcast "We the Patriots" Gregson has interviewed a number of leading figures in the health freedom movement including Dr. Peter McCullough and Naomi Wolf.
Tiffany Parotto is the founder of My Cycle Story https://mycyclestory.com/
* See "NEW: Pfizer Director Jordon Trishton Walker Shares Concern for COVID Vaccine Effect on Women’s Reproductive Health … ‘There is Something Irregular About the Menstrual Cycles’ … ‘Affecting Something Hormonal’"
February 2, 2023
https://www.projectveritas.com/video/new-pfizer-director-jordon-trishton-walker-shares-concern-for-covid-vaccine/
**Dr. James Thorp https://www.vitals.com/doctors/Dr_James_Thorp.html His social media account is https://gettr.com/user/Jamesathorpmd
***DTaP vaccine is to prevent diphteria, tetanus, and pertussis.
****Prior to covid, as the author of several best-selling books on women's health, Dr. Christiane Northrup was an international celebrity, frequently featured in mainstream television, newspapers and magazines. She is a cofounder of Maine Stands Up https://www.mainestandsup.org/ and organization of citizens of the state of Maine dedicated to protecting and restoring civil liberties.
Her website is https://www.drnorthrup.com/
and Substack is https://truenorthdr.substack.com/
* Dr. Sherri Tennpenny's website is https://drtenpenny.com/
Dr. Lee Merritt's website is https://drleemerritt.com/
Dr. Carrie Madej's website is https://www.carriemadej.com/