Zika Fake Science Back in the News; Con Artists at Work!

• Big Pharma Shill: ” Yes! We need a Vaccine so that Big Pharma can make lots of money (Ahem,Cough) …  I mean to Save the people from Zika, for peace, prosperity, stop Global Warming Scam (ahem) phenomenon …! If you do not support this Al CIAda (cough) Qaeda will win!”
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• Zika Fake Science Back in the News; Con Artists at Work
  by Jon Rappoport, https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/  
  Their media androids dutifully record a “breakthrough” 
  Is it about science or money?
  US health agencies want more than the $600 million they’ve allotted to the “war against Zika.”They want $1.9 billion. Why not? They always want more money.
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  To make their case, the CDC has pushed out a new Zika study in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM): “Zika Virus and Birth Defects — Reviewing the Evidence for Causality”. (For the CDC’s conference call with the android press, click here).
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  Before commenting on that study, let’s recall a devastating statement the NEJM’s former editor, Marcia Angell, issued in 2009, after she had headed up that non-science machine for 20 years:
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  “It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine.”
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  As criticisms of fake science go, this one, from an elite insider, ranks near the top of the list. It is a direct accusation of widespread fraud. Otherwise known as lying, cheating, massaging data, hiding data, and so on.
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  In other words, the NEJM has been publishing studies and reports that, regardless of their convincing language, are “cooked” to appear true when they most definitely weren’t.
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  Therefore, right up front, a new Zika study published in the NEJM is highly suspect, to say the very least. There is no reason to accept its data, methods, or findings. Except perhaps as an article of religious faith. But medical journals aren’t supposed to be religious publications, the last time I looked. 
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  The new NEJM study on Zika aims to eliminate doubt that the Zika virus causes microcephaly. Until now, that doubt was widespread. Even the World Health Organization was making careful statements: “…although no definite causal link has been established between Zika and microcephaly (babies born with smaller heads and brain damage), we believe there is a connection…” That sort of thing.
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  The new NEJM study is supposed to erase, once and for all, that “maybe.” But it doesn’t. It’s not even close. Because when you wade through the rather dense language, what you see is an attempt to show a correlation between the presence of the Zika virus and the occurrence of the birth defect.
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  Correlation is not causation. And that’s just the beginning of the problem.
  Even on the basis of correlation, nowhere in the study do we see anything approaching a high degree of association. You would expect to find evidence that in, say, 80 or 90 percent of cases, the Zika virus was found in babies who developed the defect. That evidence isn’t there. Well, how about a 90-percent correlation between microcephaly in the baby and Zika found in the mother? Not there, either. Again, not even close.
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