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Silly Old Coutts

The Weekly Sceptic

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The Cozy Relationship Between the German Regulator and Beyond Tech

Follow on from story about the apparently placebo batches that were approved by the German regulator for use across Europe, the EU. The big story was that there were these batches that had a very, very low rate of side effects of adverse events. That's just batch variability but what made it particularly striking and razor suspicions in scientists who wrote a paper about it. And this follow on article has pointed out this cozy relationship between the German regulator, the PEI, and Pfizer beyond tech. There isn't a smoking gun, but as you say, an analysis of the different vaccine batches suggests that there was something differently about one of them.

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