{"id":66957,"date":"2026-08-25T17:26:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T07:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=66957"},"modified":"2026-08-25T17:26:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T07:26:46","slug":"the-bmj-unethically-retracts-the-mostert-paper-that-showed-excess-deaths-kept-increasing-at-the-same-rate-after-the-covid-shots-rolled-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=66957","title":{"rendered":"The BMJ unethically retracts the Mostert paper that showed excess deaths kept increasing at the same rate after the COVID shots rolled out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-66958\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Retracted_Graph.jpg\" alt=\"Retracted Graph\" width=\"1100\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Retracted_Graph.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Retracted_Graph-300x147.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Retracted_Graph-1024x503.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Retracted_Graph-768x377.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They said the paper wasn&#8217;t balanced so they retracted it. You can&#8217;t declare a paper unfixable if you never told the author what needed fixing. This is not how science is supposed to work.<\/p>\n<p>(Tom: This is how suppression of data that does not fit the narrative builds ignorance of medical risks which prevents accurate personal decision making.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/stevekirsch\/p\/the-bmj-unethically-retracts-the\">https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/stevekirsch\/p\/the-bmj-unethically-retracts-the<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They said the paper wasn&#8217;t balanced so they retracted it. You can&#8217;t declare a paper unfixable if you never told the author what needed fixing. This is not how science is supposed to work. (Tom: This is how suppression of data that does not fit the narrative builds ignorance of medical risks which prevents accurate &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=66957\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The BMJ unethically retracts the Mostert paper that showed excess deaths kept increasing at the same rate after the COVID shots rolled out&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips","category-vaccines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66959,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66957\/revisions\/66959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}