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Global north researchers running a global south field site rife with medically unethical and statistically abysmal research practices, all to manufacture support for their pet theory and undermine global vaccine access & health security…the research colonialism is genuinely staggering.
isabelott.bsky.social Isabel @isabelott.bsky.social · 10d
is the “”gold standard science”” in the room with us right now?
* CIDRAP The group "systematically selected and highlighted results that supported their theories, while downplaying the fact that they did not confirm the primary hypothesis the trials were actually designed to test," said Henrik Stovring, PhD, a professor of biomedicine at Denmark's Aarhus University who led the new review, in a press release. "In 23 out of 25 articles, the researchers highlighted secondary findings as support for their theories, but in 22 of these cases the evidence disappeared after proper statistical handling," said Stovring said, who is also a professor at the Steno Diabetes Center Aarhus. "When you look at the overall picture, there are almost no real findings left." Two reviews commissioned by the World Health Organization concluded that the evidence for nonspecific effects "remains weak and vulnerable to biases." Danish media also have criticized Aaby and Christine Stabell Benn, MD, PhD, his wife and research partner, for touting the findings of their observational study. while failing to publish the results of a randomized controlled trial-considered the gold standard of medical evidence—on the DPT vaccine, conducted 14 years ago. By commissioning the new vaccine study, the Trump administration's is trying "to do anything they can to discredit all vaccines," said Peter Hotez, MD, PhD, endowed chair of tropical pediatrics at Texas Children's Hospital and co-director of its Center for Vaccine Development. "This is so self-defeating for the country."
December 18, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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This summer, Brett Murphy, @peterdicampo.bsky.social and I went to South Sudan, where the U.S. had been supporting the response to a historic cholera outbreak in the world’s poorest country before pulling the plug.

We found shuttered clinics and dead bodies. www.propublica.org/article/usai...
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
www.propublica.org
December 15, 2025 at 9:19 PM