====== Scientists Challenging the Narratives During the COVID-19 Pandemic ======

===== Scientific Organizations Challenging the Narratives =====
See [[covid-19_pandemic:challenging_the_narratives|Leadership and Organizations Challenging the COVID-19 Narratives]].
  * [[https://bird-group.org |British Ivermectin Recommendation Development Group (BIRD-Group) ]]
  * [[https://voiceforscienceandsolidarity.substack.com|Voices for Science & Solidarity]]

===== Scientists Challenging the Narratives =====
  * Gunter Kampf - COVID-19: Stigmatising the unvaccinated is not justified((November 20, 2021 | Gunter Kampf | [[:The Lancet]] | [[https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)02243-1/fulltext|DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)02243-1]]))
  * Professor Ehud Qimrom, head of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Tel Aviv University, wrote an open letter (January 6, 2022) criticizing global and Israeli COVID-19 pandemic policy.((January 11, 2022 | The Rio Times | [[https://www.riotimesonline.com/brazil-news/modern-day-censorship/covid-19-policy-leading-israeli-immunologist-writes-open-letter-it-is-time-to-admit-failure/|Covid-19 policy: Leading Israeli immunologist writes open letter: “It is time to admit failure”]]))
  * [[:Geert Vanden Bossche]] believes that the mass vaccination campaign in the midst of a global pandemic would create more harm due to viral shedding from vaccinated individuals and immune escape due to extreme pressure caused by vaccination.

A letter in the January 2022 Lancet, written by Carlos Franco-Paredes of the Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Colorado, bears the title 'Transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2 among fully vaccinated individuals' states that studies //"have conclusively demonstrated the benefit of COVID-19 vaccines in reducing individual symptomatic and severe disease, resulting in reduced hospitalisations and intensive care unit admissions".// However, he pulls together several studies showing that, in terms of the transmissibility of Covid-19, there appears to be little difference between vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals.((https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(21)00768-4/fulltext?))