If the CDC’s death records are correct, there was a mass casualty event in New York City and the surrounding area in April 2020, which killed 50,000 people over the course of 8 weeks, then ended just as suddenly as it began. Don’t be surprised if you haven’t heard about it—most people outside the Department of Defense haven’t, and even there, it’s on a need-to-know basis.
Read MoreIf you were a parent looking for information about the childhood vaccine schedule, could the new “artificially intelligent” virtual tool ChatGPT help? You bet! I investigated and found out ChatGPT is working hard to minimize vaccine hesitancy, by telling people their precious little one will get far fewer vaccines than are actually in store for them. If you catch Chat’s lies, it will come clean—sort of. Here I make multiple attempts to wrangle something resembling truth about the vaccine schedule out of ChatGPT.
Read MoreFalse and misleading information about mortality and excess deaths in the US is rampant. There seems to be a common strange belief, by people who should know better, that these are matters of belief and opinion, rather than matters of numbers and math. Why the obfuscation on all sides?
Read MoreAlthough older ages died in higher numbers, the 35-44-year age group had by far the largest percentage increase in deaths— a 36% increase over 2019, and a 44% increase over the 5-year average. In total, there were up to 104,000 more deaths than usual, and the numbers still have not returned to normal. In this paper I look exclusively at deaths in the 35-44-year age group: How have the 15 Leading Causes of Death Changed, and why? The data has some very strange surprises.
Read MoreThis post is about a few unconventional lessons that have stuck with me from graduate school, where I was studying psychology and law at the University of Nebraska in the early 1990s.
Read MoreAlthough doubts about the integrity of government databases are common, for obvious reasons, I seldom see anyone try to make a case for false data, with evidence. I came across one such attempt recently, concerning the US database of deaths in WONDER, and I’m going to review the evidence here. This review involved some very strange surprises.
Read MoreLately I’ve been writing about several unusual surges in US deaths that occurred from 2020 to 2022. Even though I haven’t looked at all the surges individually yet, I decided to jump straight to this discussion of all the surges collectively, after the high strangeness of the situation hit me. Just how strange were the 2020-2022 “death waves”? Read on.
Read MoreBefore 2020, deaths had a remarkably consistent seasonal pattern in the US. This predictable pattern went totally wonky in 2020, and stayed strange through at least early 2022. Why? I think this disruption in the usual pattern of deaths can provide important clues about what really happened to cause deaths to increase. In this paper I look at the the third of four extraordinary “death surges” that occurred from 2020-2022—this one in August 2021—and consider its possible implications.
Read MoreThe second of 4 death surges that occurred in the US from 2020 through 2022 started in December 2020 and continued for about 13 weeks. This death surge resulted in almost 285,000 excess deaths, compared to the same period a year earlier. Like the April 2020 death surge, it disproportionally affected one state—but strangely, it was an entirely different state, on the opposite side of the country. In this post I look at the numbers for the December 2020 death surge, and I have some more information about the April 2020 death surge as well.
Read MoreAfter my last paper on the April 2020 death surge, I looked deeper and discovered something shocking: the 135,000 excess deaths in the US during the surge occurred almost exclusively in New York and New Jersey. Because the death surge was so localized, 4 out of 5 of the possible explanations I proposed for it don’t really fit! Plus, there’s a new chart comparing the death rate in each state for 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022. There are a few standouts among the states—but not necessarily for the right reasons.
Read MoreThere have been 1.7 million excess deaths in the US in the last few years, starting with a sudden surge of deaths in April 2020. This death surge is ignored a lot in both mainstream and alternative media, because it doesn’t neatly fit anyone’s narrative. This paper takes a closer look at that first death surge, considers the possible causes, and identifies 4 distinct “death surges” that occurred from 2020-2022. It also looks at deaths by gender among 25-44 year olds—an age group where twice as many men die than women.
Read MoreThe CDC’s long overdue update on deaths in the US is finally in—2022 numbers are complete (but not finalized) in the WONDER database, and 2021 numbers are finalized. Some things are especially disturbing; for example, excess deaths in the 35-44 year age group were a stunning 43% higher than expected. I also explain why I use 2015-2019 mortality data to calculate excess deaths, and explain why using a 5-year rolling average normalizes excess deaths.
Read MoreIn this short paper, I show US birth numbers from the CDC’s WONDER database, which are available from 1995 through 2021. While it’s not possible to draw any conclusion about cause and effect simply from looking at numbers in a database like this, it is possible to identify certain things that may warrant further investigation—such as a possible connection between the HPV vaccine and declining birth rates.
Read MoreIf it seems like more young people than usual are dying these days, it’s because they are. If anyone tells you otherwise, they either don’t know what they’re talking about, or they’re lying. Surprisingly, these excess deaths have disproportionally effected young people. In this paper I discuss excess deaths in the US by age group, from the CDC WONDER database.
Read MoreTwo examples of inspirational and joyful human excellence in action, for a change.
Read MoreThis paper looks at all-cause deaths in England, comparing deaths among the COVID19 vaccinated and unvaccinated. It also has a few other thoughts on vaccine safety in general. It looks like there’s some serious statistical funny business going on in both the US and England, having to do with “age-adjustments” (in the US) and “age-standardization” (in England), which are helping to paint a rosy picture of vaccination.
Read MoreThis is a short post with some very interesting data I came across, about the rate of COVID19 vaccination among residents and staff of state healthcare facilities in the US, such as nursing homes and rehabilitation facilities. Who knew that more than three-fourths of healthcare staff aren’t getting their COVID19 boosters?
Read MoreWith preventing COVID19 infection and transmission both off the table as possible benefits of vaccination (not that they were ever really there, but…), the only possible benefit left is preventing severe cases of COVID19. I hope we can all agree that death is the most severe of severe cases. In this paper, I look at vaccinated and unvaccinated US COVID19 death data collected by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). I don’t know how reliable it is—I’m just showing you what’s there, and pointing out some of its obvious limitations, based on the CDC’s own descriptions. As you’ll see, the data is far more ambiguous than glowing—the sort of data that makes you go, "hmm.”
Read MorePfizer and pro-vax experts have admitted the COVID19 vaccines don’t prevent the transmission of disease to others—that means there’s no legitimate basis for any COVID19 vaccine mandates. A flood of propaganda followed in the wake of these revelations, in an effort to control the damage. I look at some of it in this post. I also look at some historical research on the transmission of disease—how much proof do we really have that flu is contagious?
Read MoreThere’s really only one arguably legitimate justification for the use of force or coercion in vaccination, which is that it benefits the public by preventing the spread of disease. It’s the purported basis of every vaccine mandate in the world. Recently, there have been bombshell admissions by Pfizer and pro-vax experts that COVID19 vaccines do not, and never have, prevented the transmission of disease. In other words, there is no legitimate basis for any COVID19 vaccine mandates.
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