The MIT professor who has been appointed by Robert F Kennedy Jr to review the safety of Covid-19 vaccines has failed to meet basic scientific standards in his own research on the topic, according to more than a dozen scientists and public health experts.

Retsef Levi, an operations management professor, is a member of the US health department’s vaccine advisory committee (ACIP) which is meeting later this month and – many experts fear – could seek to rollback recommendations on who should receive Covid-19 vaccines.

Levi, who holds Israeli and American citizenship, has claimed that Covid-19 vaccines are the “most failing medical product in the history of medical products”, despite a body of research that has shown they are safe and effective. A modeling study published in 2022 in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet estimated that Covid-19 vaccines saved nearly 20 million lives in the first year they were available.

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    3 months ago

    the prestigious medical journal The Lancet

    The same Lancet that published the vaccines cause autism paper by Wakefield and refuse to retract it for 12 years.

    The same Lancet that took two years to retract the metformin paper for COVID, even after authors flagged problems with the data.

    This is Levi…

    Can I take an mRNA vaccine until I only need glasses?

    He’s a Professor of Management, he has no training or knowledge of how viruses or vaccines work.