Prominent Covid jab whistleblower passes away after final public message
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French biostatistician Christine Cotton, known for her criticism of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials, has died after publishing a final message describing her health struggles and urging supporters to continue examining her research.
Cotton spent more than 25 years working in the pharmaceutical industry and became a prominent figure among critics of the COVID-19 vaccination programme after conducting her own analysis of Pfizer trial data, dedicating the past several years to reviewing clinical trial documents and publishing reports challenging official conclusions about vaccine safety and efficacy.
Tributes have since been posted online by supporters and fellow researchers. Legal commentator Gloriane Blais described recent updates to Cotton’s expert report as an “absolute scandal” and urged the public to preserve her work. Other supporters praised Cotton’s determination and described her as a whistleblower who sacrificed her health and personal wellbeing in pursuit of what she believed was the truth.
Among the claims promoted by Cotton’s supporters is the assertion that Pfizer’s clinical trial programme involved different vaccine formulations and that only a small proportion of trial participants received the same product later marketed to the public.
https://dailytelegraph.co.nz/world/prominent-covid-jab-whistleblower-passes-away-after-final-public-message/
The Doctor as a Moral Figure
There was a time when doctors, like Charles Augustus Leale, held a special place in society. People didn’t just see them as skilled professionals. They saw them as moral leaders. Communities trusted doctors not because they were always right, but because patients felt doctors truly cared about them, not just the system. Leale had no protocol to follow that evening. No committee advised him. No administrator stood nearby explaining liability concerns. No electronic medical record demanded documentation. There was no legal department, no compliance office, no billing specialist, and no corporate structure surrounding him. There was simply a physician, a dying patient, and a sense of duty. Medicine today feels very different.
Today’s healthcare is full of amazing technology. We can use machines to support organs, read genomes, use artificial intelligence for diagnosis, and keep people alive in ways we couldn’t imagine years ago. Intensive care units now look like engineering labs. But even with all this progress, many patients say healthcare feels impersonal and cold.
People often leave medical encounters feeling processed rather than cared for. We shouldn’t pretend that medicine in the 1800s was perfect. Doctors in Leale’s time didn’t have antibiotics, ventilators, modern anesthesia, or many of the treatments we take for granted now. Death rates were very high. Still, medicine back then often felt much more personal, and that quality now seems at risk. Yet, the doctor belonged to the patient. Now, many doctors feel like they belong to large systems instead of their own practices.
https://dailytelegraph.co.nz/opinion/charles-augustus-leale-abraham-lincoln-and-the-physician-we-are-slowly-losing/
