Burying the evidence: British Medical Journal retracts paper...

Burying the evidence: British Medical Journal retracts paper...

BMJ Public Health has retracted a paper some — including a witness at a recent U.S. Senate subcommittee hearing — have used to link COVID-19 vaccines to deaths. The action comes more than two years after a researcher cited in the work flagged issues with the study. Published May 6, 2024, the paper used the "Our World in Data" database and the World Mortality Dataset to look at COVID-19 related deaths during the height of the pandemic.1 News outl…

BMJ Retracts 2024 Excess Deaths Paper for the Sin of Spreading "Misinformation"

In August 2026, amid fierce controversy, BMJ Group formally retracted a peer-reviewed paper published in BMJ Public Health in June 2024 that documented a staggering three million excess deaths across 47 Western countries between 2020 and 2022. The study, led by Dutch researchers including Dr Saskia Mostert, analysed all-cause mortality data and noted that excess mortality remained elevated for three consecutive years despite containment measures…