In Defense of My Friend Dr. Joseph Ladapo

The LA Times said his study showing the vaccines were harmful was unscientific and flawed and claimed the rates of myocarditis caused by COVID are higher than those from the vaccine. Here's the truth.

I wrote an earlier article on Joe pointing out he’s one of just two honest public health officials in the US that I’m aware of who realizes the vaccines are not safe.

Recently, I wrote this article on the study done in Florida which recommended against the vaccine for males 18 to 39. The reason: a huge safety signal was triggered that is impossible to explain if the vaccines are safe and effective.

The LA Times called his study a threat to public health, flawed, and unscientific.

I’m going to examine each of these claims and show why they are misleading.

Here are the key points:

  1. “Flawed”: This is silly. Every scientific study ever done has flaws: biases, confounders, protocol violations, limited number of participants, etc. The study was limited to a certain population, e.g., to rule out COVID as the cause of the effect observed. So this claim means nothing. That is why there is a limitations section to the study. Also, if it was flawed, then why are they touting the parts of the study that agree with their beliefs??? You can’t cherry pick the parts you believe are true on the basis of your belief system. In my case, I’ll point out the big flaw of the study, but the fact that there was a huge statistically significant safety signal despite this flaw is impossible to explain if the vaccine is safe. That’s what the focus should be on. More on that below. So despite the limitation, there was a serious signal there and that’s legit to focus on and it has nothing to do with cherry picking those conclusions I may personally agree with.
  2. “Unscientific”: This is silly again. Science is all about fitting observations to the best hypothesis. Always has been, always will be. They observed that vaccinated males had a statistically significant elevation in cardiac death 28 days post vax. Had they concluded the opposite, that the vaccine was perfectly safe, then Ladapo could be criticized as being unscientific. But he reported the signal. On the other hand, newspapers promoting the COVID vaccines as safe as the LA Times is doing should be labeled as unscientific. See Evidence of Harm. Also, the same logic applies again for “unscientific”: either the study is valid or it should be ignored. You can’t cherry pick the parts you believe are true like the LA Times in their claim that the all-cause mortality was lower. You can only cherry pick parts where the data is significant and it is not caused by a limitation of the study.
  3. “Even if there were higher cardiac deaths, the all-cause deaths were lower for vaccinated people in that age group.” This is the whopper. The big obvious lie. The study concluded nothing for 18-39 all-cause mortality because the confidence intervals were too wide to make a determination of harm or benefit. But what the study did show clearly was a strong, statistically significant evidence of an increase in cardiac deaths for 18-39 year-olds as can be seen from Table 2 on page 6:

And this should be no surprise since it is consistent with the cardiac rates post vaccine in Israel. The data was so bad that they were not given access to data beyond the initial period.

As for rates of myocarditis caused by COVID vs. vaccines, consider the following anecdote from the first doctor I asked about this. He’s been practicing for 30 years and never saw a case of myocarditis or pericarditis. Since the vaccines rolled out, he’s seen 4 cases. He’s hardly alone. I don’t know of any cardiologist who saw rates of myocarditis drop after the vaccines rolled out, everyone I know has seen the opposite.

I also know of a pediatrician at Stanford who has never seen so many cases of cardiac issues in her career. She is the sole breadwinner in her family so she has to remain silent while other kids die. She isn’t allowed to warn her patients because if she does, they’ll fire her and take away her medical license (AB 2098). If these injuries were from COVID, they’d be encouraging her to speak out. But when it’s from the vaccine, they must all say nothing. This is the story that the LA Times should be writing about. When she notified her peers, she was told that there is no evidence linking all these cases to the vaccine, so it is best not to alarm the public in the meantime until the association is established. But of course, since nobody is doing a study to establish the association, and since only a few kids who died after being vaccinated are given a proper autopsy with the requisite stains to establish causality, causality is never established. Therefore, these doctors have plausible deniability; they know it is happening, they know it is ONLY happening to vaccinated kids, they know it only started after the vaccines rolled out, but until it is published in a paper in a peer-reviewed medical journal, it would be just speculation based on anecdotes. They throw the precautionary principle of medicine out the window when it comes to the “safe and effective” vaccines.

If the vaccines are so effective, where are all the cardiologists who are seeing the dramatic drop in myocarditis cases?

They don’t exist AFAIK. If they do, where are they? That’s a problem for the mainstream media. A big problem. But none of them ask the critical questions because they never consider that they could be wrong.

The ad hominem attacks

The LA Times wrote:

Ladapo has been labeled a “quack” and a “COVID crank.” If there has been any doubt that these labels are justified, they should be dispelled by his latest action.

There is just one tiny problem with that that they missed in the article… p: Ladapo wasn’t involved in the execution of the study; it was all done by the professional staff who are pro-vax (at least they were before they did the study). That’s really significant by the LA Times missed that. I haven’t a clue how that might have happened.

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