r/VaxRecoveryGroup

"Lead author Mostert argued that governments and media implemented fear and propaganda tactics to reduce “tolerance for reason and dissenting voices” during the pandemic and claimed the investigation into her paper violated academic freedom and constituted censorship."

"Lead author Mostert resigned in 2024 after the Princess Máxima Center announced it would be investigating the paper, she said at a hearing on June 3 before the U.S. Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee subcommittee on investigations on “Plausible Mechanisms of COVID-19 Injections Causing Cancer and Attacks on Scientific Publications and Research.” In her testimony, which was largely focused on the BMJ Public Health paper, she said the authors “did not claim certainty regarding the causes of excess mortality. Rather, we asked attention [sic] for three major events that were non-existent before the pandemic: COVID-infection, containment measures, and COVID-vaccines.”"

I’m deeply concerned to learn that McMaster University, located in Hamilton, Ontario 🇨🇦 (my hometown) has launched the FALCON clinical trial, which compares the commercially branded Lightning Process with activity pacing for people living with Long COVID.

After 6.5 years of living with severe Long COVID, I never imagined that one of Canada’s leading medical institutions would be investing scarce Long COVID research resources into studying an intervention centred on changing how people think about and respond to their symptoms.

My concern isn’t that research should stop.

It’s that research should meet the highest standards of scientific rigor, transparency, patient safety, and accountability.

The questions I believe deserve answers include:

• Who is funding this study?
• Why are objective measures of functional improvement not more clearly identified?
• What safeguards are in place for participants who experience post-exertional symptom exacerbation?
• What commercial relationships, if any, exist with the Lightning Process?
• Why are Canada’s limited Long COVID research resources being directed toward this intervention?

I’ve started a petition calling for McMaster University to pause recruitment until these concerns have been independently reviewed and publicly addressed.

This is not a campaign against research.

It is a call for better Long COVID research.

If you share these concerns, I would be grateful if you could read the petition, consider signing it, and share it with others.