A quick look at Topol's bio provides an interesting hypothesis regarding his willingness to ditch science in order to support the pro-vax-mandate narrative:
(from wikipedia): He is the founder and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute, a professor of Molecular Medicine at The Scripps Research Institute, and a senior consultant at the Division of Cardiovascular Diseases at Scripps Clinic in La Jolla, California.
Scripps is Fauci/NIH's number one research partner.
How much money did Topol and Scripps get from the NIH in recent years?
(more wikipedia): In 2016, Topol was awarded a US$207 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to lead a significant part of the Precision Medicine Initiative
This is in addition to his role as principal investigator for a $35M grant from the National Institutes of Health to promote innovation in medicine and the education and career training of future medical researchers.
So Topol/Scripps received at least a quarter of a billion dollars from NIH since 2016!
What are Topol's specialty areas?
(from his Scripps bio page) His principal scientific focus has been on the use of genomic and digital data, along with artificial intelligence, to individualize medicine. He is also a practicing cardiologist.
A very brief scroll through his publications on Google scholar suggests that he did cardiology-related research in the years prior to his job/s at Scripps (pre-2006), but has focused almost exclusively on the future of medicine (genomics, digital data, AI etc.) since then. Then, when Covid hit, he suddenly became interested in research supporting the NIH's Covid narrative. Not just about Covid and cardiac events, but also things like "Prevalence of Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infection: A Narrative Review" -- WHAT???? HOW DOES THAT FIT INTO ANY OF HIS AREAS OF RESEARCH/EXPERTISE????
One of Topol's Scripps colleagues, Dr. Kristian Andersen, notoriously pointed out (in FOIAed emails) that SARS-CoV-2 looked like it could be engineered, and then did a 180 two days later and signed onto the natural origins paper. (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9).
Subsequently, Scripps received another $60M+ from the NIH
Does anyone have any doubt as to what's going on here?
The tweet from David Nunan states "It is a sign that advocacy is trumping critical thinking." I think that Vinay is also making a similar claim that individuals like Topol are not thinking critically about what they are reading. Having read some of the studies like this that have come up and realizing how completely obvious the flaws are I am wondering if the issue with doctors like Topol is not even worse than that. I wonder if Topol even read this study or if he simply read the abstract, saw the figure, and then posted it without any further investigation at all. That would be even more insidious than simply not thinking critically but it might better explain this kind of behavior from individuals that are theoretically supposed to be pretty good at critical thinking based on their training and experience.
So another half-baked paper to influence the nutritive. Hospitals rarely code the unvaccinated properly, when they don't know check the un column. We really are staved for adequate data then led astray by some analyses. Sad reflection on science itself.
I can’t access the Letter to JACC without a subscription. Wasn’t COVID publication open and shared? When did that end? What I wanted to do was in addition to reading the paper was to review the authors conflict of interests and funding sources. If anyone can access that it might shed some light on the overt bias built into this letter describing their study findings.
A quick look at Topol's bio provides an interesting hypothesis regarding his willingness to ditch science in order to support the pro-vax-mandate narrative:
(from wikipedia): He is the founder and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute, a professor of Molecular Medicine at The Scripps Research Institute, and a senior consultant at the Division of Cardiovascular Diseases at Scripps Clinic in La Jolla, California.
Scripps is Fauci/NIH's number one research partner.
How much money did Topol and Scripps get from the NIH in recent years?
(more wikipedia): In 2016, Topol was awarded a US$207 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to lead a significant part of the Precision Medicine Initiative
This is in addition to his role as principal investigator for a $35M grant from the National Institutes of Health to promote innovation in medicine and the education and career training of future medical researchers.
So Topol/Scripps received at least a quarter of a billion dollars from NIH since 2016!
What are Topol's specialty areas?
(from his Scripps bio page) His principal scientific focus has been on the use of genomic and digital data, along with artificial intelligence, to individualize medicine. He is also a practicing cardiologist.
A very brief scroll through his publications on Google scholar suggests that he did cardiology-related research in the years prior to his job/s at Scripps (pre-2006), but has focused almost exclusively on the future of medicine (genomics, digital data, AI etc.) since then. Then, when Covid hit, he suddenly became interested in research supporting the NIH's Covid narrative. Not just about Covid and cardiac events, but also things like "Prevalence of Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infection: A Narrative Review" -- WHAT???? HOW DOES THAT FIT INTO ANY OF HIS AREAS OF RESEARCH/EXPERTISE????
One of Topol's Scripps colleagues, Dr. Kristian Andersen, notoriously pointed out (in FOIAed emails) that SARS-CoV-2 looked like it could be engineered, and then did a 180 two days later and signed onto the natural origins paper. (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9).
Subsequently, Scripps received another $60M+ from the NIH
Does anyone have any doubt as to what's going on here?
Very sad that Topol closed his comment section permanently the day after he joined Substack.
Showed me he is pefers anti science.
Have we not established that vaccine-induced heart damage occurs overwhelmingly in the first couple of weeks following vaccination?
In the study - all these first-2-weeks people were considered unvaccinated.
So are we not seeing a whole lot of vaccinated people have heart attacks, who are then classified in the unvaxed category?
For many heart attack sufferers after COVID-19 vaccination, it will be their last heart attack ever. Perhaps Topol would like to celebrate this.
Learning something new from every post. Highest value CME I have right now VP. Thanks for the dissection. #demolished
The tweet from David Nunan states "It is a sign that advocacy is trumping critical thinking." I think that Vinay is also making a similar claim that individuals like Topol are not thinking critically about what they are reading. Having read some of the studies like this that have come up and realizing how completely obvious the flaws are I am wondering if the issue with doctors like Topol is not even worse than that. I wonder if Topol even read this study or if he simply read the abstract, saw the figure, and then posted it without any further investigation at all. That would be even more insidious than simply not thinking critically but it might better explain this kind of behavior from individuals that are theoretically supposed to be pretty good at critical thinking based on their training and experience.
Thank you!! Thank you!! THANK YOU!!!
So another half-baked paper to influence the nutritive. Hospitals rarely code the unvaccinated properly, when they don't know check the un column. We really are staved for adequate data then led astray by some analyses. Sad reflection on science itself.
I can’t access the Letter to JACC without a subscription. Wasn’t COVID publication open and shared? When did that end? What I wanted to do was in addition to reading the paper was to review the authors conflict of interests and funding sources. If anyone can access that it might shed some light on the overt bias built into this letter describing their study findings.