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Michael Yeadon

Dr. Michael Yeadon is a retired British pharmacologist who served as chief scientist and vice president at Pfizer. He co-founded and served as CEO of the biotechnology company Ziarco.

Leadership During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Dr. Yeadon has been an outspoker critic of the mass experimental COVID-19 vaccine program as well as other aspects of pandemic management, during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Attacks on Dr. Yeadon

Dr. Yeadon's Wikipedia page includes an assortment of attacks on his stance against the experimental vaccines.1)

Profoundly Ignorant Propaganda Smear

Pfizer scientist turned anti-vaxxer Dr Mike Yeadon wins 2021 Rusty Razor award for pseudoscience By Michael Marshall 9th December 2021 - The Skeptic

Yeadon, who left Pfizer in 2011 and has subsequently become a hero of the Covid conspiracy theorist movement for his anti-vaccination scaremongering, will share the 2021 prize with the Covid conspiracy theorist group “The White Rose” – responsible for covering cities across the world with anti-vaccine stickers and graffiti.

Throughout the pandemic, Mike Yeadon has been a prolific source of viral misinformation, including claiming that masks have no effect on Covid spread, that lockdowns “never slow transmission”, and that asymptomatic spread of COVID-19 is a lie. In an October 2020 article for the Daily Mail, Yeadon predicted there would be no second wave of COVID-19 infections, and that deaths would “fizzle out without overwhelming the NHS” – since then a further 100,000 people have died.

Once Covid vaccines became available, Yeadon’s misinformation shifted to their safety and efficacy – in December 2020 he petitioned Europe’s medicines regulator to halt vaccine trials, claiming it could cause infertility in women – a claim he acknowledged was not backed by scientific evidence, but which spread widely on social media. By January, 13% of unvaccinated people in the United States had heard that “COVID-19 vaccines have been shown to cause infertility.” A UK-based study found that 7% of all UK adults had heard Yeadon’s false claim regarding infertility.

More recently, Yeadon has stated that he believes COVID-19 vaccines are “50 times more likely” to kill children than COVID-19 itself, and that vaccines are part of a “serious attempt at mass depopulation” and they represented the “deliberate execution potentially of billions of people”.

The Skeptic Editor Michael Marshall said: “The nominations for this year’s pseudoscience prize were dominated by figures who have spread anti-vaccine misinformation, including Brazilian President Jair Bolsanaro, former nurse Kate Shemirani, and US podcasters Joe Rogan and Bret Weinstein. However, it’s Yeadon’s scientific background and the perceived credibility of his past career with Pfizer which we felt deserved the additional recognition of our Rusty Razor Award.

“Throughout the pandemic, Yeadon has been relentless in his consistently misinformed predictions and his baseless scaremongering about COVID-19 vaccines. Each of his claims have spread around social media sites like Twitter, Facebook and Telegram – due, in part, to the perceived credibility offered by his status as an ex-Pfizer scientist.

“He has provided some of the most effective ammunition for the anti-vaccination movement, and for that reason we feel he is a very worthy winner of the Rusty Razor award”.

Michael Marshall is the project director of the Good Thinking Society and president of the Merseyside Skeptics Society. He is the co-host of the Skeptics with a K podcast, interviews proponents of pseudoscience on the Be Reasonable podcast, has given skeptical talks all around the world, and has lectured at several universities on the role of PR in the media. He became editor of The Skeptic in August 2020. 2)

Turning Pfizer Discards Into Novartis Gold - The Story Of Ziarco

FORBES - March 15, 2017

This is what happened to Dr. Mike Yeadon, a 17-year Pfizer veteran at Pfizer’s R&D unit in Sandwich, England. Mike was told in the fall of 2010 that Pfizer was closing the Allergy & Respiratory Diseases programs and his own role as the CSO of this group was being eliminated. Rather than seek employment elsewhere, Mike had other ideas;

“I deduced, rightly as it later turned out, that the UK site was to close. Armed with this deduction, having decided that I was not interested in chasing another big pharma job elsewhere as my family was well settled, and aware that compounds would likely be abandoned, I cooked up the notion of founding a biotech, right here. 3)

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