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Christopher Ruhm, COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine, cross-sectional study, epidemiology, excess deaths, excess mortality, public health, vaccines.

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Antivaxxer Steve Kirsch threatens to release private health information

Steve Kirsch as Monty Python
Shorter Steve Kirsch: Nice PHI ya have there in your database. Be a shame if someone released it.

Tech bro turned antivaxxer Steve Kirsch emailed the director of Te Whatu Ora a threat to release names from a stolen New Zealand Ministry of Health database. It did not go well

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Steve Kirsch’s New Zealand “mother of all revelations” about COVID-19 vaccines fizzles

Marvin the Martian
The reception to Steve Kirsch’s talk reminds me a bit of Marvin the Martian. Where’s the “kaboom” after his MOAR?

Steve Kirsch recently gave a talk about “record-level data” from New Zealand that supposedly demonstrates that COVID-19 vaccines have killed more than 10 million people worldwide. His “analysis” of illegally obtained data from a “whistleblower” was so ridden with false assumptions and rookie errors that even some antivaxxers couldn’t accept it.