This little article is a copy of a section in my autobiography, Whistleblower in healthcare, which can be downloaded for free here: https://www.scientificfreedom.dk/books/. It describes how both GSK, AstraZeneca and Cochrane committed fraud, to the benefit of their steroid, but it doesn’t work and is actually harmful. Read article here

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Depression drugs are ineffective for all degrees of depression and they double the risk of suicide whereas psychotherapy halves the risk of suicide. Guidelines for treating depression need to be urgently changed. Read article

When Trump nominated Robert F Kennedy Jr. as upcoming health secretary and Marty Makary as new FDA commissioner, the legacy media went berserk. Instead of describing what is wrong with healthcare and the widespread corruption at the FDA, the media attempted character assassination on both Kennedy and Makary. Read article

The psychiatric system is so sick that it punishes those who go against the grain and get better results than their colleagues by using less force and drugging less. In Denmark, a chief psychiatrist opened a force-free department, and they had available beds, in contrast to all other departments that scream: Send more money. He was fired and has even been reported to the police. The patients and relatives smell blood, too, in the form of cool cash because it is alleged that he did something wrong. I suspect he is the victim of a witch hunt and have argued that if the patient files at other departments were examined, the professional standard would likely be lower than at his department. Read my article.

As the most meaningful titles have already been taken by reputable journals, titles for predatory journals are often a meaningless hodgepodge of words. I present here an analysis of the logical structure of some of the weirdest journal titles in invitations I received during January and February 2025, e.g. Journal of Nutrition and Health Sciences is like Journal of Diabetes and Everything Else. Read article.

In 2008, I was exposed to absurd censorship and editorial misconduct when I tried to publish a Cochrane review of an obscenely expensive drug, alpha-1 antitrypsin for patients with lung disease caused by inherited alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency. I have also been exposed to censorship in relation to our assessment of the quality of 53 new Cochrane reviews, mammography screening, house dust mites, antidepressants, and most recently, in February 2025, in relation to our update of the mammography screening review. Cochrane has fallen so deep now that it seems to be beyond repair. Read my article.

When I had done the calculations and written the article documenting that our prescription drugs are the leading cause of death, ahead of heart disease and cancer, and that psychiatric drugs are the third leading cause of death, I submitted it to Mad in America and Brownstone.

Both institutions accepted the article the same day – a Saturday – and published it three days later.

Compare this with publishing in medical journals. It would have taken me years because of hostile peer reviews and editors who were worried about possible lawsuits, losing drug company advertising, losing reprint sales to drug companies, etc.

Furthermore, traditional medical journals would not have allowed my article to be published in two different journals and they would have hidden it behind a paywall unless I paid a huge fee for open access.

I have explained previously why some of us prefer to avoid publishing in traditional medical journals and why we badly need our new Journal of the Academy of Public Health, launched 5 Feb 2025.

By Peter C Gøzsche

Today, Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson published a highly revealing comment about Pfizer’s trial of its mRNA COVID-19 vaccine Comirnaty in pregnant women and about the kind of advice authorities provide.

The package inserts from the UK, the EMA, the FDA and Canada are cautious, saying that safety data were not available about use in pregnancy.

In contrast, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the UK Health Security Agency and the UK National Health Service informed the public that “It’s safe to have the vaccine during any stage of pregnancy.”

The effect of such reckless and horrible misinformation is that people lose trust in the authorities and might refuse to take vaccines that are much, much better than the COVID-19 vaccines, which, moreover, are pretty superfluous because virtually all of us have been infected by now, including my wife and me even though we got two doses of Pfizer’s vaccine.

Four years ago, Pfizer announced with great fanfare in the press that it is critical to develop a vaccine that is safe and effective for pregnant women, and they planned to recruit 4000 women.

Two months ago, Pfizer quietly uploaded their results in a trial register, with no fanfare. So, what did they do and what did they find? It took Pfizer four years to recruit 348 women!

Worse still, women were only enrolled if they had been pregnant for at least 24 weeks. But when do foetal abnormalities develop? In the first trimester, which is up to 12 weeks.

Pfizer’s rigged trial goes directly against FDA advice that “study participants should be representative of a typical patient population for the drug to be studied including race, ethnicity, and trimester of pregnancy.”

The data in Pfizer’s trial showed an increased risk of congenital malformations, adverse events of special interest, including significant congenital anomalies and developmental delay, and preeclampsia. We have no idea whether these are signals to worry about, as none of the risks were statistically significant.

Pfizer argued that they terminated the trial “due to enrollment challenges into a placebo-controlled trial as a result of universal recommendations for COVID-19 vaccination of pregnant women and the increased global availability of COVID-19 vaccines.”

I once worked in the drug industry where I did clinical trials. I am convinced that if Pfizer had wanted to, they could have recruited the planned 4000 women. Moreover, there is no excuse for avoiding the first trimester if one wants to find out if a drug has teratogenic effects. Pfizer seems to have had an extreme lack of interest in getting data on this vitally important issue.

I agree with Carl and Tom that women of reproductive age should not be exposed to Pfizer’s vaccine – or to any other COVID-19 vaccine. They have likely all been infected with COVID-19 and have acquired a much better immunity than any vaccine can provide.

It is sad to read Anders Goksøy’s comment about the COVID-19 pandemic in the Norwegian newspaper Morgenbladet (no. 3), where he attacks Sigrid Bratlie unjustifiably. Emails have revealed that Kristian Andersen also considered it likely that the pandemic was caused by a virus produced by the scientists in Wuhan, which escaped from the laboratory. But he quickly changed his mind after having consulted with Anthony Fauci. Then, everybody said the virus had a natural origin.

Over 5,000 scientists have signed a petition to retract Andersen’s 2020 Nature Medicine article on the origin of the virus, which they call fraudulent. Andersen has also called it a conspiracy theory to suggest that the pandemic is caused by a laboratory leak. It is deeply unscientific to use the term conspiracy theory.

There is no evidence whatsoever that the virus came from the wet market in Wuhan or from nature. Everything points to the fact that the virus was “Made in China”, which was very inconvenient for the Americans, because they had supported this very dangerous research economically, which Fauci lied about. I described these things as early as 2022 in my book “Vaccines: truth, lies and controversy” and in several articles later, e.g. this one: “Origin of COVID-19: The biggest cover up in medical history.”

Both Andersen and Fauci have now been shown to have lied repeatedly about the issues, which I’ve tweeted about extensively, most recently on January 21st, with links to the documentation, at @PGtzsche1.

A Danish newspaper recently wrote that Donald Trump is extremely unpopular in Denmark. This is not only because he wants to buy Greenland or take it by force. Many Europeans are convinced that, during Trump’s second presidency, we will see disaster upon disaster, harming not only America but the whole world and they are right. Already on his first day in office, Trump made USA a banana republic by pardoning over 1500 Capitol rioters. Over 600 of these had been charged with assaulting, resisting or obstructing law enforcement, and 175 with using a deadly or dangerous weapon or causing serious bodily injury. At least 5 people died and about 140 police officers were injured. Read full article.