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Antivaxxer Steve Kirsch threatens to release private health information

Post author By Orac
Post date December 20, 2023
36 Comments on 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

Tags 1984, Andrew Wakefield, Barry Young, dataset, excess mortality, Kim DotCom, Margie Apa, MOAR, mother of all revelations, New Zealand, New Zealand Ministry of Health, pandemic, privacy, Robert Young, Shiva Ayyadurai, Steve Kirsch, Te Whatu Ora, Wasabi, Winston Smith

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

Post author By Orac
Post date December 11, 2023
89 Comments on Steve Kirsch’s New Zealand “mother of all revelations” about COVID-19 vaccines fizzles

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.

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