Claim: Steve Kirsch is lying.
Steve Kirsch is not lying. Media matters has come some way forward, but not far enough.
There is an update below the bullet points. Media Matters changed their headline, to make it less inflammatory - I think it’s obvious Steve Kirsch is not lying.
Media Matters, a website devoted to exposing media lies, originally did not even quote any evidence in their headline claim that Steve Kirsch is lying about the effects of the vaccine; Naomi Wolf the famous feminist author explains here why she believes his claim is genuine. Steve Kirsch’s claim is based on data and surveys: the proper way to argue with such a claim is to give opposing statistics. Media Matters does not even bother to try giving any evidence, data or statistics and thereby earns a place in the FirstFactCheck uncorrected fact check hall of infamy.
Steve kirsch has always been open about his reasons for believing this- he outlines the data here. Steve Kirsch always gives evidence and data to support his assertions about facts. Unfortunately evidence and data is often lacking even on government websites.
This is the complete article as of 16 August:
Update:
Steve Kirsch is now saying he will sue Media Matters for libel.
Update - Steve Kirsch’s reasons for believing that the vaccines caused hundreds of thousands of deaths:
THE CLAIMS
The claims Steve made on Aug 10 on Fox News:
The FDA and CDC falsely assured us that the approved COVID mRNA vaccines were both safe and effective
The COVID mRNA vaccines are the most dangerous vaccines ever created by man [for the general inoculation of the general US public]
The mRNA COVID vaccines are 1,000 times deadlier than the smallpox vaccine [killed per capita for fully vaccinated person]
Hundreds of thousands of Americans have been killed by these [mRNA COVID] vaccines
Millions of Americans have been injured by these vaccines
Below the link to Steve’s article is my summary of Steve Kirsch’s reasons for believing the vaccines have killed hundreds of thousands of Americans, and millions around the world.
If Media Matters ever come up with any opposing data or evidence, I will remove them from the Uncorrected Fact Check hall of Infamy and issue a correction to this article.
88 bullet points: A summary of Steve Kirsch’s reasons for believing the vaccines have killed hundreds of thousands of Americans (at least).
evidence of illegal falsification of medical records and death certificates: in America today, if you died shortly after vaccination, even when there is a VAERS report, that your medical records will not reflect this and it will be omitted from your death certificate as well? https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/my-interviews-with-ryan-cole-deb
Steve Kirsch has offered up to $1M to anyone who thinks they can challenge his data and evidence and there are no acceptances of any of his 15 debate offers.
Over 700 Substack articles Steve has written
Wayne Root’s wedding (8 months after the wedding) at least 26 people were severely injured and 7 people died who were vaccinated while Wayne was not aware of anyone who was unvaccinated who reported any injuries or death.
1,250 papers published in the peer-reviewed scientific literature on COVID vaccine injury,
Lack of debate: comprehensive review from Hoeg, Stevenson & Krug rates of myo/pericarditis post vaccination can differ by a factor of 10! The more carefully you look the more you find.
Lack of debate: CDC presents the VAERS data and John Su deliberately misleads the ACIP panel, unethically refuses to mention the VAERS underreporting factor. Read this for more.
Professor Jeffrey Sachs wants to continue to find out the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, but nobody wants to cooperate with him including people who were involved in the development of the virus.
Data from multiple third party sources.
No single supporting personal anecdote to the mainstream narrative… If the vaccines are as safe and effective as claimed, we should be drowning in glowing anecdotes. No groups of people with more unvaccinated injured or dead people than vaccinated.
A transcript of the interviewSteve Kirsch on Tucker Carlson Tonight with Brian Kilmeade.
The FDA and CDC falsely assured us that the approved COVID mRNA vaccines were both safe and effective. They are not safe because they’ve killed hundreds of thousands of people as shown below.
UK Data the vaccines kill more people than they help
Robert Malone admitted this this video at 6:50.
Once you start the boosters they don’t protect against infection, hospitalization, and death
Negative VE this article which cites the official UK numbers.See this article on the negative VE in the UK. Triple vaxxed —> 3X worse off. Official UK government data. They stopped reporting it when it was obvious it wasn’t working.
See this article search fro Scotland.
The COVID mRNA vaccines are the most dangerous vaccine ever created - the previous most dangerous was smallpox which was 1 per million. COVID vaccines killed over 300,000 Americans which is more than 1,000 deaths per million (Steve shows that below) since only 223M Americans have been vaccinated.
Steve Kirsch has often asked everyone in a large auditorium 3 questions: How many people in your household died from the COVID virus (not with COVID) and were treated properly in the hospital? How many people in your household died from the CDC-prescribed one-size-fits-all treatment protocol that the hospitals gave them after they checked in with severe COVID symptoms?How many people in your household died from effects from the COVID vaccine? (heart attack, stroke, myocarditis, cardiac arrest, pulmonary embolism, sudden adult death syndrome, died in their sleep, suicide, …)
The CDC says that there is no association with the vaccine and death. They are lying. The proof of that is in this video entitled, “If you are killed by the vaccine, NOBODY will blame the vaccine.” A man who died shortly after the vaccine. Doctors explanations don’t fit the facts. Only viable explanation is a vaccine death and multiple medical experts have affirmed this. The hospital nor the CDC will discuss this case on camera. People die from the vaccine and it is not considered a vaccine death.
this video for just 60 seconds starting at 1:15:00. That’s the red-pill moment. If you have time, watch the entire talk starting at 1:02 onwards. It’s entertaining and full of truth bombs.
Calvary Church presentation. Audience. The number of deaths from COVID is always less than the number who died from the vaccine.
This can be easily derived from the VAERS data, but there are 10 other ways you can get the same estimates from data from all over the world.
The work of Mathew Crawford who analyzed the data from all over the world showing an average vaccine kill rate of around 411 deaths per Million doses.
In the US there have been 604M doses so that would be 248,000 deaths using the 411 estimator.
From the VAERS data, there are now almost 14,000 deaths reported in the US. Subtracting 1,000 for “background deaths” (a more than conservative number since vaccines each year combined appear to “kill” 250 people in VAERS), we have 13,000 reported “excess deaths.”
A factor of 41 for VAERS underreporting factor using the anaphylaxis stats published in a peer-reviewed medical journal. Aaron Siri calculated a very similar number, challenged the CDC on it, and the CDC did not dispute his claim. 41*13,000= 533,000 deaths. Steve’s article and this article for details on the calculation, the full derivation is found here
five CDC authors wrote a paper on how to calculate the underreporting factor.
Since there are 223M fully vaccinated people in the US, this is close to 1M deaths based on the UK government statistics.
Divide the number of severe injuries by 10. Over 2M severe vaccine injuries which implies 200K or more deaths.
Polling consistently shows that more people have been judged to have been killed by the vaccine than by COVID. How is that possible? We used 4 different polling firms.
Anecdotes like Wayne Root’s wedding. If everyone was vaccinated, then we have 8 vaccinated deaths in 200 people. That’s a death rate of 4%. Even if it’s a statistical outlier it implies a death rate of 1% or more. (Poisson distribution) that means 2 Million deaths, 200,000 is a very very conservative estimate therefore.) [note - I have to say of all Steve’s arguments, I find this one the least convincing - Wayne Root’s wedding is notable simply because Wayne Root noticed that the unvaxxed people were healthy and the others weren’t and publicised the fact- it might be the one wedding in 200,000 weddings where this is true - it could just be a statistical outlier of the sort that we notice because it’s brought to our attention - except that I can’t deny seeing the same phenomenon in my family and friends…! Oh and Wayne Root’s Wedding is mentioned three times in this list!]
Data Steve collected from 600 readers [A survey like this can be self-selecting for a particular result however as Steve’s readers are more likely to notice health problems and ascribe them to vaccine injuries since they are the sort of people who read Steve’s blog. This is not exactly a criticism however - as the data is clearly not being reported on - and at least he is doing something to try to get some figures on this]
Vaxxed
1039/4910 = 21.1% injured (Wayne reported 26%)
235/4910 = 4.7% dead (Wayne reported 8%)
Unvaxxed
29/3475 = 0.83% injured (Wayne reported <1%)
8/3475 = 0.23% deadDivide the numbers by 4 to be very conservative and you still get >1% death rate.And then there are all the anecdotes in plain sight. [I agree with this]
Aaron Crawford, 18y o high school athlete labeled a superhero suddenly became ill and died from cardiac arrest. CBS News story. ktvu news story. Kids under 20 never had strokes or heart attacks before. Now it’s normal
2 and 3 year old kids with seizures. They happen within days after vaccination. Not febrile seizures:no fever. Doctors cannot explain it because they are told it cannot be the vaccines.
insurance companies all over the world (such as this one and this one) are reporting 40% increases in all-cause-mortality for people under 60 in Q3 and Q4 of 2021. A 40% increase in two quarters alone would be 200K excess deaths for Q3 and Q4.
Dr. Peter Schirmacher - top pathologist - After revealing that at least 30% to 40% of the people who died after being vaccinated died from the vaccine, they threatened his family if he said anything more. So he shut up.
Numbers replicated by other researchers in Germany with even more devastating results: Bhakdi / Burkhardt study showing 93% of deaths post vaccine were caused by the vaccine
at the number of deaths in the first 21 days post vaccine compared to >21 days in the elderly. It’s 2 to 6X higher in the first 21 days than the entire period after 21 days.
VAERS data:In the first 2 weeks, we have more than half the deaths. So we can compute 14000*41*.3/2 = 86,000. So with conservative estimates we get just 86,000 deaths.
But Bhakdi found a 93% causality rate. So 14000*41*.93/2=267,000 which supports my statement.
See the Nextdoor death rate data survey below showing 3% of households with a death. With 128M households in US, that’s an estimate of millions of people who have died, far exceeding my claim. [my comment: A survey like this can perhaps self-select their participants, however; in other words the people who do the survey are more likely to be anti-Covid-vax and / or more likely to have had a vaccine injury) (even so there is a lot of other evidence and I wouldn’t mind betting the rate is even higher than this]
Facebook - vaccine deaths in plain sight have recently become too numerous to allow because it would create vaccine hesitancy. So they censor vaccine-related sudden deaths so nobody will know how deadly the vaccines are. They euphemistically call that “Keeping Our Community Safe.”
In memory of those who "died suddenly" in the United States and worldwide, August 2-August 8.
Embalmers telltale blood clots in over 50% of the people he embalms. suggests that half the deaths in America can be tied back to the vaccine since these clots are unique to vaccinated patients (and those with blood transfusions from vaccinated patients). So that would be over 1.5M deaths over a 1 year period.
Steve’s $1M challenges to anyone in the world who thinks I’m wrong on any of his 15 claims. Lowered it to $200K and there were no takers.
The Israeli government did a survey and found 4% of people who got the vaccine reported neurological issues. This would correspond to 10M vaccine injured in America.
“29% of Young Pfizer COVID Vaccine Recipients Suffered Heart Effects.” So say just 30M young people were vaccinated. 29% of that would be 8.7M young people.
surveys with independent polling agencies showed similar rates approx 10% self-perceived injury rate.
this poll. 2 questions. Over 500 respondents. It showed the rate of vaccine injury is over 8%.
Google Surveys refuses to let you ask either question. they refused to run the survey questions in that poll.
If you go on Nextdoor and say anything bad about the vaccine, your post will disappear within 24 hours. He was able to get a poll that lasted just over 24 hours. Not a lot of responses, but you can see how devastating the results were. That is why Nextdoor removed the poll. first published in this article, Steve captured the live survey on video just before Nextdoor removed the post to prove he didn’t tamper with the screenshot.
A neurologist with 20,000 patients reports over 1,000 neurological injuries among her patient base (and she gained another 1,000 vaccine injured patients after the vaccines rolled out). So that’s a 5% rate, closely matching the Israeli numbers.
Zogby poll found that 10% of Americans had buyers remorse on taking the vaccine. The Zogby polls showed that 15% of the vaccinated people had problems. Of those 15% with problems:21% blood clots19% heart attack18% liver damage17% leg clots/lung clots15% stroke
So even if we just take ONE of those line items as the ONLY serious side effect, that’s a 3% rate of significant injury. 3% of 200M is 6 million people. That’s MILLIONS of people who have been injured
The polling is consistent no matter what firm you use. You Steve’s polls heredone by 3 independent polling firms.
Fox News, CNN, the NY Times, et al. refuse to commission similar polls. They do not want you to know the truth about how bad these vaccines are. Why? Because the drug companies are paying them lots of money (in advertising) to say nothing bad about the vaccines. That’s why you only hear one-side of the story on mainstream media.
Wayne Root’s wedding anecdote hints that the number is at least 13% (if all 200 people were vaccinated) and if we divide that by a factor of 4X to account for Poisson distribution statistics, we get a conservative 3% rate of severe injury. Millions of people.
Thailand study. Damaging 30% of healthy young adults, imagine what you are doing to older people.
Number of myocarditis rates at Monte Vista Christian School which was in excess of 1% but they wouldn’t reveal any of the details beyond that.
Wayne Root’s wedding (8 months after the wedding) at least 26 people were severely injured and 7 people died who were vaccinated, no one unvaccinated reported any injuries or death. full interview with Wayne here.
All-cause mortality in Medicare is at an all-time high!The Medicare all-cause mortality rates set an all time high after the vaccines were rolled out.
another study showing no decrease in all-cause mortality.
this article cardiologist sent Steve. The article references the Thailand study above. .Troponin goes up after the shot - heart damage including myocarditis and pericarditis.
4 cases of myocarditis among 400 boys at the Monte Vista Christian School in Watsonville, A 1% rate of myocarditis among male vaccinated teenagers. That’s not “rare.”
They canceled the ESP:VAERS project: because people at the CDC didn’t want to know how unsafe the vaccines are. Bobby Kennedy book quote: “By testing the system for several years on the Harvard Pilgrim HMO, AHRQ proved that it could capture most vaccine injuries. AHRQ initially planned to roll out the system to all remaining HMOs, but after seeing the AHRQ’s frightening results—vaccines were causing serious injuries in 1 of every 40 recipients—CDC killed the project and stowed the new system on a dusty shelf. Dr. Fauci left that system safely cached, throughout the pandemic, allowing HHS’s broken voluntary system to continue to conceal vaccine injuries, including any evidence of pathogenic priming.Kennedy Jr., Robert F. . The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health (Children’s Health Defense) (p. 180). Skyhorse. Kindle Edition. Kennedy Jr., Robert F. . The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health (Children’s Health Defense) (p. 180). Skyhorse. Kindle Edition.
Video by Steve Kirsch of phone call exposing Politifact fact checker as biased Head of Politifact, Angie Holan, requested Steve take down the recording. he refused.
In Canada when 3 scientists tried to challenge the authorities. The authorities were a no show.
Senator Johnson invited the authorities in America to debate the doctors at his “Second opinion” roundtable, nobody who supported the narrative showed up.
Bobby Kennedy hasn’t been able to debate any health authority on the safety of any vaccine and he’s been trying for 20 years. The reason is simple: he knows the material better than any of them do.
Andrew Wakefield when asked how dangerous the childhood vaccine schedule was, he said children who haven’t been vaccinated are 10 times healthier than those who have been.
So if you’re going to debate me on any of this stuff about vaccine safety, let’s also bring Bobby and Andrew Wakefield on one side and as many as they want to throw on the other side and let’s do it in public.
Fact checkers here.
Steve Kirsch’s reasons: “One of my readers wrote:You are using simple logic and unpacking the argument in a clear, scaffolded, methodical way, and yet you are not arrogant. Ultimately, they will get it. Good on you. It reminds me of the approach Dr Malone keeps preaching: non-violent communication, truth-telling without anger. You are patient.I admit that I am pretty frustrated by the lack of interest in finding the truth.SummaryI welcome a livestream discussion with any fact checker who wants to challenge me on any of my claims. But none of them will do it because they all know it will end badly. Very badly. Just like it did for Gabrille Settles of PolitiFact. Isn’t it time the American public learned the truth about these vaccines and all the other vaccines?Fox News: This is your moment. Can’t verify? Or won’t verify?”
Update: Media Matters has altered their article about Steve Kirsch.
Media Matters has altered their article about Steve Kirsch.
This was it beforehand:
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At least they have provided a change log in small print (I missed it initially), confessing to changing their assertion that Steve lied. Steve Kirsch might be wrong about the data, or the meaning of the data, but to claim that he lied is unreasonable and out of simple human decency (and probably fear of a lawsuit) they should provide an apology as well: I have absolutely no doubt that Dr. Kirsch sincerely believes what he is saying.
They have also provided “links” to various responses to Steve’s claims, each of which has serious shortcomings. I will quickly assess these claims.
Link 1: Do Pfizer vaccines "kill" 2 people for every 1 saved? Evaluating Steve Kirsch claims.
It is notable that this article was written in October 2021. It is almost a year out of date and there is plenty more evidence now to support the idea that the vaccines kill more people than they save.
The main argument is basically that Steve’s numbers may be uncertain - that Steve’s conclusions depend on certain assumptions. But this author does not tell us what the proper numbers should be, for instance, the VAERS under-reporting factor, which Steve says is 41x (a figure that comes from a peer reviewed study.)
Even if this article did prove that the vaccine does not kill 2 for every 1 person vaccinated (which is; I think it fails, but it’s what the covid data science article claims to prove ), the article still does not actually prove that Steve is wrong when he says the vaccines have killed hundreds of thousands of people.
Jeffrey Morris says: “Bold and dramatic claims like these require high levels of evidence to substantiate, and the presented analyses do not even come close to what is required to support them.” Well, actually, Jeffrey, when dealing with Phase 2 or 3 trials of experimental vaccines it is usual to assume that the vaccine is the cause of the adverse event, and what we have with the Covid vaccines is essentially a huge phase 2 trial, involving a whole planet, because let’s face it, none of the Pfizer trials were worth the paper they were written on. I have also outlined here the lacklustre Novavax trials, published in a peer review journal by Novavax themselves, which lead one to believe Novavax may well be virtually ineffective for Omicron and still has quite a high myocarditis rate of 1 in 7500. Etcetera etcetera.
Let me add, the FDA claim was made about Steve Kirsch by another person, not by Steve Kirsch, and that person corrected the error. To bring this up as if Steve Kirsch himself was claiming it is basically an ad hominem attack and therefore completely spurious, illogical, bad reasoning.
Link 2: Reuters Fact Check-COVID-19 vaccines do not kill more people than they save; FDA experts did not make this false claim
Another September 2021 article. Very old. Old data. Old facts. Not even worth the carbon dioxide that reading it spews into the atmosphere when the power station provides the power that illuminates the computer screen. Not that I’m worried about that anyway.
Anyway, again the Reuters article brings up the FDA claim. In the context of the Media Matters article, this is irrelevant and wrong; and also shows them up to be too lazy to put the arguments in their own article. So the FDA claim is nothing to do with Steve Kirsch. Throw at least a third of this reuters article in the bin.
They then deal with the VAERS adverse events. Well, since we now know that Covid death figures have been vastly inflated, by the inclusion of people who died from gunshots, cancer and trauma from car accidents, and since we also know that many Doctors were afraid of reporting adverse events because of their careers, we can discount all of the Reuters arguments here.
Reuters brings up Johnson and Johnson, which we now know has essentially been deprecated in many countries because of concerns about safety.
We have all known people who have died suddenly in close proximity to their vaccination; just dropped dead, like the Saudi Ambassador and countless sports people and the people suffering from the mysterious Sudden Adult Death Syndrome. How about stopping denying it, Reuters, and start finding out what the real figures are? At least Steve Kirsch is trying to make an estimate of this.
We also know now that the vaccines cause myocarditis. It’s in the Pfizer trial documents, it’s in the trial data, Novavax has more cases than Pfizer and many think Pfizer is probably lying about their figures, it wouldn’t be the first time. And the British health data about the Astra Zeneca blood clots here: https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/zion-fatal-brain-injury-astrazeneca-covid-vaccine-injury/ And we know that the safe and effective medicines Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine were suppressed.
The CDC is not a credible source of information. They didn’t even know how long the dangerous Spike protein stayed in the body. As El Gato Malo’s Substack shows:
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6. I rate this Reuters fact check false.
Link 3.Politifact "Pfizer vaccine kills more people than it saves."
This article is so slim on facts it’s not even worth noticing and let me make the point that since the vaccines cause myocarditis, a fact we know is true, and since we know myocarditis causes death, how about giving us the true figures of deaths, Politifact? This article also is woefully out of date. September 2021.
Link 4. Arxiv.org article saying VAERS is not useful for estimating deaths.
https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2202/2202.04204.pdf
Well at least Steve Kirsch references actual peer reviewed studies in his evidence. This article makes the ridiculous assertion that VAERS is not useful for estimating deaths. Well I should bloody well hope that it would be useful, because otherwise Americans have no clue how many people are being killed by the Covid vaccines. <sarc>
And by the way, Arxiv.org is for ‘studies’ that didn’t make it through peer review.
Link 5. Ad hominem article in technology review.
This is not even a study, neither does it deal in data, it is basically an ad hominem character assassinating bio of Steve Kirsch.
Media Matters fails to put forth any decent evidence or any estimate of how many people are killed by the vaccines.
We all know people are being killed by the vaccines. How many, Media Matters?
Inadequately Corrected First Fact Check Hall of Fame
I am keeping Media Matters in the Inadequately Corrected Fact Check Hall of Fame. None of these articles deal with the more recent data; they are all woefully out of date and we all know that there is more to this. There is much evidence that the vaccines cause myocarditis and heart problems. There is much evidence now that they cause problems with the T cell response to cancer. (You just have to go through my articles, Steve Kirsch’s articles, Unacceptable Jessica’s articles, to see the studies that prove these things. But I think all of us now also know people personally who have suffered very debilitating side effects and death. )
Indeed, none of the articles referenced by Media Matters deal with the things we all see and know - young people and athletes collapsing left right and centre. Justin Bieber and Celine Dion, no longer able to perform. The Saudi Ambassador dying suddenly mid-sentence in a press conference. We know people are dying from the vaccine. Tell us how many. Steve Kirsch is making an estimate. All of these articles merely say, “Oh, he must be wrong, the vaccines are safe and effective.”
How about telling us how many people actually have died, Media Matters? No, you don’t know. Or just look around you.
CHANGE LOG
3:18am Sun 21 Aug Put update in
11:49am Quoted Steve Kirsch’s full article.
18th August - added update about Media Matters changing their article and moved their article into the new hall of infamy.
At 12:47 am Mon 22 Aug
Edited out the term Weasel Words:
I edited out ‘they are beneath contempt’ from the subtitle of my article and changed it to Media matters has come some way forward, but not far enough.
I also changed the title of the hall of infamy section from ‘Weasel Words “Corrected” <Sarc> First Fact Check Hall of Infamy.’ to ‘Inadequately Corrected Hall of Fame’ because Jesus’ words in Matthew 5:22 were pricking my conscience: ‘but I say unto you, that every one who is angry with his brother shall be in danger of the judgment; and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council; and whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of the hell of fire.’ Using the term Weasel Words was a little too close, perhaps, to saying ‘Raca’ (an Aramaic term of contempt) and, despite their erroneous fact check, the authors of Media Matters are still surely my brothers and sisters in God’s sight on this earth. I apologise, therefore, for my original subtitle, which I think was too offensive, and I will continue to pray for the people at Media Matters that God will bless them and bring them to a knowledge of the truth, and that He will bring them to a place where their eyes can be opened to what is really going on.
Why this is important
Let me add, as well, that when we’re talking about vaccine injuries and deaths, we are talking about real people’s lives. It is so much more important to be correct in these matters, because of what is at stake; I dislike criticising anyone, but Media Matters needs to consider very carefully what they are writing. People deserve to know the facts about the cause of the death of their relatives, for God’s sake.
Strengthened evidence
I also strengthened some of the evidence I was presenting, e.g. the Novavax section, etc.
End of September - enumerated a few of my doubts eg about Wayne Root’s wedding and the surveys, which could both be self-selecting for a particular result.