Sur la base de trois études épidémiologiques publiées... près de 15 ans après le lancement de la campagne vaccinale dans les écoles (en sept. 1994), il faudrait croire que démonstration est désormais faite de la parfaite innocuité du vaccin contre l'hépatite B chez les enfants. On s'en réjouit: car on…
Expertise et engagement
Interviews Une interview réalisée dans des conditions techniques difficiles, mais en totale liberté... Vaccination contre l'hépatite B : expertise et engagement Interview MG
Failure in drug safety assessment: a worrying issue far beyond manufacturer’s potential conflicts of interest
Statins This paper is currently submitted. In a 20-year old communication, I asked whether post-marketing surveillance was “an art or a science”: no doubt, twenty years later, that drug monitoring is just playacting, which may evolve in tragedies. Analysis of the statin story (amongst others) comes to the sad conclusion…
Hepatitis B universal vaccination: learning from the French experience
Hepatitis B vaccine This update has been written for the numerous prescribers and health professionals who are logically disturbed by a growing discrepancy between the recommendation they are receiving of protecting public heath by hepatitis B vaccination and an accumulation of alarming data on the hazards of this prophylaxis.Focused on…
EBM and homoeopathy
This letter was published in the Br Med J (8 Sept, 2000) as a "rapid response" to a paperTaylor MA, Reilly D, Llewellyn-Jones RH, McSharry C, Aitchison TC. Randomised controlled trial of homoeopathy versus placebo in perennial allergic rhinitis with overview of four trial series. BMJ 2000; 321: 471- 476.…
A comment on Hernan et al’s study (2004)
Hepatitis B vaccine This correspondence was rejected by the journal Neurology with the following comment: "This letter was reviewed. It is too difficult to understand. I do not think that it adds sufficiently to the thoughtful and balanced editorial and the original paper." As opposed to the claim of the…
Dangereux pour les bébés
Une version de cet entretien est parue dans le quotidien "Le Progrès" du 15/11/04 Document joint Dangereux_pour_les_bebes.pdf
Report criticizes French hepatitis B vaccination campaign
Hepatitis B vaccine http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/444869 ou http://www.vaccinetruth.org/france1.htm A report ordered by Judge MO Bertella-Geffroy, currently presiding over a negligence case brought by the familes of people - some of them have died - who developed neurological problems after hepatitis B vaccination. Report Criticizes French Hepatitis VaccinationCampaign PARIS (Reuters Health) Nov 20…
De Roland Simion (1924-1944) à Marc Girard
English Roland Simion was a young worker without much education who refused STO, the forced labour instituted in France by the Nazis during World War II. For years, he took to the maquis in the woods near Evreux (Normandy). He was caught and killed by German soldiers one day before…