The Trouble with mRNA Vaccines

We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others . — Blaise Pascal C ongratulations to Quadrant for publishing Professor Robert Clancy’s excellent “Covid and the Sounds of Silence” (November 2024). His discussion of the complex underpinnings of the protracted institutional and societal over-reactions to the Covid pandemic exemplifies the breadth of reasoning and independent insight expected of senior medical investigators.

The four “fixes” he proposes to enhance Australian sovereignty and avoid future catastrophic over-reactions deserve wide dissemination and deep discussion. If we aspire to live in a rational society guided by insights gained from scientific investigation, we must re-examine the Covid era asking why, for so long, we persisted in portraying the pathogenicity of a relatively conventional respiratory virus in the most extreme manner while simultaneously believing the very best about a..



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