MSU Professor Mark Skidmore was exonerated by MSU; his landmark paper showing over 250,000 killed by the COVID vaccine is now back in the peer-reviewed literature

substack.com ^ | Oct 21, 2023 | Steve Kirsch

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After a 7 month review by his university, Mark Skidmore, was exonerated of all charges and his new, improved paper was published in a more credible peer-reviewed journal.

Steve Kirsch

Oct 21, 2023

 

Michigan State University Professor Mark Skidmore was exonerated of all ethics charges after a 7-month investigation. His paper was revised and was reinstated in the peer-reviewed literature. It revealed that over 250,000 people were killed by the COVID vaccine. Others have found similar numbers.

Executive summary

Mark Skidmore wrote a paper that showed that 217,000 Americans were killed in 2021 by the COVID vaccine.

The journal retracted the article and Mark’s university commenced a 7-month investigation into unethical behavior by Professor Skidmore.

Today, I’m pleased to announce that Professor Skidmore has been exonerated on all charges and his paper, with some helpful additions suggested by Dr. Susan Oliver (and her dog, Cindy), has now been published in another peer-reviewed journal.

The news on the investigation and the paper

See this press release that Mark sent me.

The press release was drafted by the Liberty Counsel who was instrumental in defending Mark in the investigation by Michigan State University. If you want to support their work, please donate here.

Bottom line: After a 7-month ethics investigation, Michigan State University found that Mark did nothing wrong!

Note: What this really means is that they tried for 7 months to find something they could nail him on, and they failed.

The new paper is now published in a peer-reviewed journal

COVID-19 Illness and Vaccination Experiences in Social Circles Affect COVID-19 Vaccination Decisions.

Here is an excerpt:

With these survey data, the total number of fatalities due to COVID-19 inoculation may be as high as 289,789 (95% CI: 229,319 – 344,319). The large difference in the possible number of fatalities due to COVID-19 vaccination that emerges from this survey and the available governmental data should be further investigated.

Let me translate that for you. Here’s the “plain English” version (my embellished interpretation):

“Our survey showed that there’s a good chance that 290,000 Americans (and maybe as many as 344,000) may have lost their lives due to taking the COVID vaccine and that’s in 2021 alone! That’s a lot of people and it’s a lot more than the US government claims. And for the record, this isn’t the only survey that found this. For example, the Rasmussen survey found a similar number of people were killed by the vaccine and the virus. So did other firms. So how come there isn’t an investigation to determine conclusively who is telling people the truth here? What’s wrong with you people? Instead of trying to censor the data, maybe it is high time we started talking about it so we can finally determine who is telling the truth and who is lying to you.”

Background

Here are the previous articles that I’ve written about Mark Skidmore’s paper.

If you have time to read only two articles, here are the top two I’d recommend:

1. New peer-reviewed study: >217,000 Americans killed by the COVID vaccines in just the first year alone!

2. It's time we hold these people accountable; let the lawsuits begin

The article, “What the "Defenders of Science" Miss About the Purpose of Scientific Peer-Review and the Open Dialogue: When You Censor or Support the Censorship of Dissident Voices, You Are In the Wrong” is an excellent summary also of how papers such as Mark’s, are retracted unethically.

Here’s an article recapping the whole thing by James Lyons-Weiler: Dr. Mark Skidmore Exonerated

 

Acknowledgment

Mark would like to thank Dr. Susan Oliver (and her dog Cindy) for all their helpful suggestions. Susan was nice enough to make a helpful video for Mark to ensure that even the most nit-picky peer-reviewer wouldn’t be able to find any errors.

Mark incorporated her suggestions into his revised paper to make it even stronger.

LA Times opinion

Why anti-vaxxers are pretending a flawed study on vacccine deaths has been vindicated

MICHAEL HILTZIK, business columnist for the LA Times, basically repurposed David Gorski’s new hit piece. It’s the same old arguments as they used before that the survey didn’t verify the deaths were caused by the vaccine. That’s right. The survey didn’t do that and never claimed to have done that.

What the survey did is say, “Whoa! We could have a MAJOR problem here; how do you explain all the carnage?”

Any objective scientist looking at that data would have to agree: this is smoke. Mark pointed out it was smoke.

Hiltzik should be writing about how nobody seems to want to investigate this signal.

So I decided to run my own survey. Nearly all my followers are anti-vaxxers; for most of their households, NOBODY in the household took the vaccine. So my respondents are biased; we’d expect there to be way fewer deaths in their households from the COVID vaccine because of so few vaccinations. Yet, we found around 1.5X more COVID vaccine deaths than COVID virus deaths in their households. That’s insane. We have a VERY deadly vaccine here. So how does Hiltzik explain that?

Summary 

So it’s now back in the scientific peer-reviewed literature that over 250,000 people were killed by the COVID vaccine in 2021 alone.

Other independent surveys (like Rasmussen and the outside surveys I’ve done) all are consistent with those numbers that the vaccine killed a comparable number to the virus. So that’s very validating of Mark’s numbers.

Remember that Rasmussen surveyed the general public. Over half the general public thinks the vaccines have killed nobody. So they are not reliably assessing vaccine caused deaths because they’ve been gaslit by the mainstream press and their doctors. So you should be VERY concerned that the Rasmussen survey found comparable numbers because it means that the reality is more likely than not that the the vaccine has killed more people than COVID.

So how are they going to explain the results which are verifiable and which can be replicated?

Answer: They will not. They will ignore it. Because they cannot explain it. Gaslighting people on this is too hard. That’s why they had to get the paper unethically retracted when it came out. Now that it’s out, they will ignore it. No fact checks, nothing. Silence.

Please help share the good news about Mark Skidmore with others. It’s important we let the world know that their governments have been lying to them.

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PING

[Honest Nigerian]

In before exDemMom comes along with her poo-poo comments.
Glad to know (hope?) that infectious disease experts like eDM are big enough to admit they are wrong sometimes.
“Follow the science” is glad to be alive.

[JSM_Liberty]

Here is another article about Mark Skidmore’s paper

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/msu-economics-professor-mark-skidmore-exonerated-over-his-retracted-paper-claiming-that-covid-vaccines-killed-278000/

Just so you have both sides of the story.

[jimwatx]

And even that number is only a fraction of te people who died as a result of the vaxx. I know 2 woman neither with cardiovascular issues who both died 6 months after being vaxxed of pulmonary embolisms. Neither of which were ever reported to VAERS or counted as a vaxx fatality. Way too many of these anecdotal stories for it to be a fluke.

[JSM_Liberty]

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-10-24/no-anti-vaxxers-this-flawed-and-retracted-study-of-vaccine-deaths-hasnt-been-reinstated

“But there was a problem. Skidmore based his estimate of vaccine-related deaths on the opinions of people who had no way of knowing that the illness or death their acquaintances suffered after vaccination had anything to do with the shot. “

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Skidmore never claimed that he identified the cause/effect of shot and death. He documented inexplicable levels of death and said it should be investigated. The paper was pulled and they tried for months to debunk it, and finally released it because what he said and what he showed were accurate. Said another way, Skidmore was saying, “Where there’s smoke, we should look for fire” and the paper’s critics yelled “FALSE! YOU NEVER PROVED THE CAUSE OF THE FIRE!”

[MeanWestTexan]

His study does not say 250,000 people died as a result of the COVID vaccine.

His study says 250,000 people died for no clear reason and it very well could have been the vaccine and needs to be studied.

It’s “smoke” that needs to be checked out, not “fire”.

[MeanWestTexan]

Yes!

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There was no 'problem'. The following quote is from the article at the top of the page:

 

LA Times opinion

Why anti-vaxxers are pretending a flawed study on vacccine deaths has been vindicated

MICHAEL HILTZIK, business columnist for the LA Times, basically repurposed David Gorski’s new hit piece. It’s the same old arguments as they used before that the survey didn’t verify the deaths were caused by the vaccine. That’s right. The survey didn’t do that and never claimed to have done that.

What the survey did is say, “Whoa! We could have a MAJOR problem here; how do you explain all the carnage?”

Any objective scientist looking at that data would have to agree: this is smoke. Mark pointed out it was smoke.

Hiltzik should be writing about how nobody seems to want to investigate this signal.

[MeanWestTexan]

That is a straw man.

He didn’t attempt to prove COD. He showed a serious, and deeply curious, anomaly exists.

[JSM_Liberty]

” He documented inexplicable levels of death and said it should be investigated.”

No he didn’t

He extrapolated from the number of respondents who said they knew someone who had died from the vaccine to conclude that the number of U.S. vaccine-related deaths “may be as high as 278,000.”

[JSM_Liberty]

“He showed a serious, and deeply curious, anomaly exists.”

And what was that anomaly?

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Yes. I was careless about ‘documented’ because I’d just been reading other info documenting inexplicable levels of deaths. But in this article, he extrapolated from observations, which just happen to be similar to others’ estimates.

[Tommy Revolts]

It revealed that over 250,000 people were killed by the COVID vaccine.

Just sayin...

[mikelets456]

Two deaths in two days. Both vaccinated and boosted and very sad to hear this news-—

#1-—My 71 year old brother in law died last night. Went from nothing 2 months ago, to cancer a month ago. Doctors were preparing to start treatment and then stated “he only has a week to live” We heard the term “turbo cancer” thrown around. Funeral Thursday

#2— My boss’ 42 year son in law died suddenly last night as well. Heart attack-—was a runner, completely healthy. Very sad as well. Funeral most likely Thursday.

I wish this weren’t true but I believe this is the cause of endless vaccines and good, innocent people are dying and families being devastated.

[piytar]

I seriously don’t know what to believe about the “jab” anymore. Just know a few friends got sicker from the “jab” than I did from Covid, but that’s anecdotal. They were mildly sick for a few days. Also I would not have even known I had Covid except I tested positive. Was not as harsh as my hay fever aka allergies.

All my close family have taken the “jab” with no ill side effects and no instances of Covid (although two did test positive at one point, both were asymptomatic).

Glad I don’t have to bother worrying: I cannot take the “jab” (or any other vaccine) for different reasons. Been that way for over 20 years. Have my doctor’s letter to prove it. (Has to do with a quirk of my overactive immune system.)

[Bikkuri]

No doubt, the Branch Covidians will be upset (and spreading their agitprop to attempt to counter).

[Bikkuri]

Don’t forget fart_dr and red-dot narcissist.

[bigbob]

Correct. It’s shame the paper can’t be described honestly and accurately even on FR.