I watched the entire movie from start to finish and picked out its major arguments. The movie authors make the same mistakes that they made with most of their previous public statements on the COVID vaccine. Much of what they say would fail a college level science course. Lets see why that is.

Allegation – science that cant be questioned is propaganda 

One of the absolute worst characteristics of the authors of this movie is that they never are capable of showing even the slightest bit of introspection into why they might be wrong, which is a requirement of normal standardized scientific debate. Trained scientists are willing to follow different paths depending on the evidence, but the authors of this movie decide on a conclusion and shape the evidence to their preferred conclusion (hint, their conclusion is ALWAYS vaccines are bad). The level of misinterpretation in this video is so bad that most of the video speakers and authors would fail college level science courses. They are good at being loud, but they are fairly uniformly loudly wrong. 

Allegation – there is a lack of empathy to those with side effects

To this I probably agree. Some communities around the world have had people experience side effects that they are not used to, and some of those are severe. However, these people deserve systematic scientific investigation (I’m looking at Dave Putrino and Akiko Iwasaki) rather than people looking to exercise more grift and sell even more untested medications. It is especially gross to watch physicians who should know better, try to persuade people who are desperate, to use medicines that still carry no clinical trials or standardized third party assessment of their efficacy. 

Allegation – mRNA increases atherosclerosis. 

This is a false allegation leveled by Dr Aseem Malhotra who was once a cardiologist like the author of this blog. However, there is plenty of epidemiological evidence (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39085208/) that supports exactly the opposite. People with serious heart disease and early heart artery blockages benefit from vaccination because they decrease the risk of severe disease. Aseem is saying completely the opposite of what is true. His particular motivation stems from the death of his father which was originally documented to be related to coronary disease; Aseem is on record with the BBC in saying it was compounded by an ambulance delay. Later, he changed his story despite the autopsy showing that the death was from coronary disease

Allegation – COVID vaccines do not block infection

As a general oversimplified statement, this is false because the vaccine’s ability to accomplish these things changed depending on how infectious the variant was. Secondarily, the vaccines on the general vaccine schedule other than the COVID vaccine all have different levels of strength in stopping infection and transmission. For example, MMR vaccine stops serious disease, infection, and transmission very well against measles but only when enough people in the population gets vaccinated. The specific percentage relevant to COVID vaccines varies depending on the era and variant. It is not a black and white “vaccine bad because it doesn’t stop infection and transmission”. In fact, COVID vaccines still stop severe disease quite well, which is their most important ability.

Allegation – there is excessive autoimmune disease after covid vaccine

We cannot take their concerns about autoimmune disease seriously if they do not consider all the autoimmune diseases that have cropped up after COVID disease. Take for example, a frequently cited study on the frequency of POTS after COVID disease versus COVID vaccine. The amount of POTS occuring after COVID disease is clearly larger, but the antivaxxers only cite the part that says COVID vaccines cause autoimmune disease. This would be dishonest in any other line of work. Never mind that the American College of Rheumatology has put out formal guidance on how to give out COVID vaccines to those with autoimmune disease. 

Allegation – Covid vaccines are linked with encephalitis, seizures, and strokes

No epidemiological evidence is available that links these vaccines with these side effects. While individual people have experienced these side effects, a medical professional is required to figure out where those particular diseases were triggered from. The largest epidemiological data available indicate the amount of seizures after COVID vaccine is no different than the number in those without a COVID vaccine. That the authors were so careless as to not read even simple epidemiological studies leaves significant concern on their ability to assess the incidence of encephalitis and stroke. 

Allegation – COVID vaccines are linked with small fiber neuropathy

At current the epidemiological evidence out there is insufficient to establish a statistical link because the number of patients experiencing small fiber neuropathy after COVID vaccine is so tiny. The available evidence out there suggests that this occurs more often after COVID infections. Such patients should be seen by a neurologist and treated, but it is still wrong to say COVID vaccines systematically cause SFN at the population level. 

Allegation – too many people lost family members to the COVID vaccine

This was taken from a non-peer reviewed survey in which people were simply asked to say whether or not they believed a family member died due to the COVID vaccine. Making this assessment medically requires a lot of systematic work and medical knowledge, which is a knowledge base that is typically not available to the non-medically trained person. This would be similar to saying that my personal opinion as a physician should count on how to build the next telescope. While in a free society, people are free to have their opinions, they are not entitled to their own facts. While each death should be rightfully mourned and respected, deaths occur for various reasons of which many, are not the COVID vaccine. A public opinion poll on its own is absolutely meaningless to establish the cause of death. 

Allegation – they never had access to the physical virus to design the COVID vaccine 

The genetic sequence of the virus did not come down to Earth upon the Tablets of Moses, it was determined by chemical analysis of the SARS-COV2 virus. The interested reader is invited to view videos such as these to get a taste of how it is done. 

Allegation – the spike protein of the COVID vaccine causes too much clotting

The video authors again have their epidemiology backwards. It is the COVID disease that causes a considerable risk of clots because the virus damages blood vessels, which then sets off clots. The sicker the patient is, the more likely they are to get clots. 

Allegation – cells will be attacked immunologically after the COVID vaccine

Making this statement seem serious after the COVID vaccine represents a malicious attempt to mislead their audience who may not necessarily understand basic biology. This is similar to complaining that someone should not prepare for a driving test because they might crash a car during that preparation period, therefore driving is bad. This exact sequence of events occurs after any cold or viral infection. The video authors are counting on their audience to not know this and be dazzled by the dramatic pictures and music.  

Allegation – biodistribution of nanoparticles is too extensive

It is understandable to be frustrated at the initial public messaging about the COVID vaccine staying in the arm, and to have wanted instead, a more measured description of the biodistribution. Now, example studies such as this and this give plenty of data on how the COVID mRNA vaccine travels throughout the body. 

Allegation – the Burkhardt biopsies show evidence of tissue damage

Arne Burkhardt was a German pathologist who used to make slides about evidence of tissue damage after COVID vaccine before his untimely death in an accident. The most significant mistake that Arne makes is to never show his reasoning as to why certain kinds of tissue damage is always the COVID vaccine. This strategy is similar to complaining that the cat below caused the road damage. 

This is a German pathologist who used to hide his samples in his garden. This is not something a competent pathologist should normally feel the need to do. If there were no misconduct to hide, he should not need to do that. 

Allegation – womens fertility is negatively affected by COVID vaccination

There are actually very abundant data showing the opposite. The tactic of scaring unsuspecting women not trained in reading scientific studies has been an antivaccine tactic for decades. The most recent other famous vaccine this tactic was used against was the HPV vaccine, and for that vaccine too, this irrational concern was not borne out by the data. 

Allegation – there are no long term safety data

The authors cannot be taken seriously if every time there are new safety data, they want safety data that monitors COVID vaccines for an even longer time than the previous safety data. They never were going to be happy with the vaccines in the first place, which is a classic antivaccine tactic. 

Allegation – using pseudouridine causes frameshifts, and this causes problems 

This nothingburger is fully explained here and here. 

Allegation – when creating the mRNA vaccine, safety steps were skipped

This is false because regulatory steps were done in parallel, and because a great deal more resources were made available to the mRNA vaccine designers to complete regulatory approval as fast as possible. This is explained in detail here.

Allegation – mRNA is gene therapy

Some kinds of mRNA are gene therapy, as are medications based upon some other platforms, but insisting that all mRNA is gene therapy is similar to insisting that all vehicles with wheels are cars. This is just false.