A few weeks back The BMJ published my investigation of documents provided by whistleblower Brook Jackson regarding data integrity issues in Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial, “Covid-19: Researcher blows the whistle on data integrity issues in Pfizer’s vaccine trial.” This investigation has been picked up by over 91 media outlets and has an Altmetric score of over 45,000, making it the most viewed article published in any science journal for 2021. (At least, according to Altmetric.)
Besides The BMJ, Jackson has been sending these documents to multiple reporters around the world and she will soon be appearing in various investigative TV programs describing her experience at Ventavia, a research contractor hired by Pfizer for their pivotal COVID-19 vaccine trial. For example, see this short but brilliant investigative documentary on Pfizergate that just appeared on Italian TV.
About a week after The BMJ published the story on Ventavia and Pfizer’s clinical trial, The BMJ updated readers about what we know thus far.
In September, Brook Jackson contacted The BMJ about problems she had encountered while employed at Ventavia Research Group. The BMJ commissioned freelance investigative reporter Paul Thacker to write up the story. The resulting article was subject to The BMJ’s usual high level editorial oversight and review. After publication, The BMJ wrote to Ventavia, Pfizer and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to better clarify the scope and implications of the problems identified at Ventavia, as well as what corrective measures were taken.
To date, Ventavia has not responded to The BMJ’s repeated requests for information. However, in statements to other media outlets, Ventavia has claimed that its former employee Jackson did not work on Pfizer’s covid-19 vaccine clinical trial. This claim is not true. Jackson has contacted media organisations that have published these false allegations, sharing documentation that shows her work on the trial, and asking for corrections. At the time of writing, MedPage Today has updated its article.
During the course of this investigation, Jackson has provided The BMJ with dozens of documents, photos, audio recordings, and emails. These include evidence of her involvement in the clinical trial, and communications in which senior Ventavia employees discuss concerns that the FDA might show up at their clinical sites. These records were reviewed by The BMJ’s editors, and the story was externally peer reviewed before publication.
Because many other publications plan to publish the documents Jackson gave to me and The BMJ, and to counter false claims by Ventavia that she did not work on Pfizer’s clinical trial, I am publishing some of those documents here. Unfortunately, the media outlet MedPage Today has republished Ventavia’s defamatory statement.
New Documents
Several documents show that Jackson worked on Pfizer’s clinical trial. One is an email with Jackson thanking Pfizer’s Dr. Arturo Alfaro for giving her access to the COVID-19 clinical trial software. In a second email, Ventavia’s Mercedes Livingston invites Jackson and other staff to a “clean up call” on Pfizer’s clinical trial.
Jackson thanks Pfizer’s Arturo Alfaro for granting her access to the software for Pfizer’s COVID vaccine clinical trial.
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https://disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/pfizer-covid-19-vaccine-clinical
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