The British Medical Journal has retracted a published study that examined excess mortality across Western countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. The stated reason? “Misinformation.”
A deeper look into this shows -
The study was titled:
“Excess mortality across countries in the Western World since the COVID-19 pandemic: ‘Our World in Data’ estimates of January 2020 to December 2022.”
Three of the four authors were respected professors or researchers in paediatric oncology. They were hardly fringe figures.
The retraction review makes clear that the study was not withdrawn because the data were fabricated or because the underlying calculations were mathematically incorrect.
Instead, the criticism focused on what the authors considered possible explanations for excess mortality, particularly the potential roles of COVID-19 vaccines and lockdown policies.
The authors did not claim to have proven that vaccines caused excess deaths. Rather, they raised the possibility and called for further examination of the relationship between vaccination, pandemic policies, and the significant excess mortality observed during the period.
In institutional science, critics might interpret the phrase “disproportionate attention” as meaning: you asked questions we did not want emphasized.
The controversy, therefore, is not simply about whether the study reached the correct conclusion, but is about whether researchers should be free to investigate uncomfortable hypotheses, even when those hypotheses challenge the dominant narrative.
The study raised a question, which now sits at the centre of the retraction controversy. The bottom line is there has never been science, the system has just been exposed like never before, it's pure scientism, a religious dogma.
Source: https://bmjpublichealth.bmj.com/content/4/3/e000282ret?
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