“In June, the CDC’s vaccine advisory panel met for the first time since being overhauled by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. in order to get rid of the financial conflicts of interest. Kennedy had promised that his new appointees would demand full transparency and scrutinise the evidence before making recommendations.
However, if the documentation provided by the CDC to its advisory panel is flawed, it is difficult or impossible for the panel to make rational, evidence-based recommendations. This is exactly what happened when the panel voted about whether to endorse Merck’s monoclonal antibody for babies against the Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV), nearly identical to Sanofi’s version approved in 2023.
The CDC assured the committee there were “no safety concerns,” but there surely were. Professor Retsef Levi, who cast one of the two dissenting votes, noticed a troubling pattern across four major clinical trials conducted by Sanofi. In each, there was a consistent imbalance in “nervous system” serious adverse events, most often including seizures, in the treatment groups compared to controls.”
Click below for a very useful assessment and example of statistical “massaging”.
https://brownstone.org/articles/cdc-continues-to-torture-the-data