Feb 20, 2023·edited Feb 20, 2023Liked by Maxim Lott
Since many other factors have influenced annual fertility data, I think the stronger response to this concern is to explain the medical logic that accounts for the symptoms such as longer menstrual cycle without cause for long-term worry.
Any major stressor can cause your body to say "nope, let's not get pregnant right now" and trip up your cycle. Such stressors can include vaccination, infection, strenuous exercise (I once had a weird month after a lengthy backpacking trip), etc. This is common and temporary.
Here's a great post on this, with the best parts excerpted below.
"'Vaccine hesitancy among young women is largely driven by false claims that covid-19 vaccines could harm their chances of future pregnancy. Failing to thoroughly investigate reports of menstrual changes after vaccination is likely to fuel these fears.'"
"In fact, the Covid-19 vaccine clinical trials did not even examine symptoms of menstrual changes, a typical pattern across trials."
"'It is biologically plausible that vaccines can affect menstrual cycles through short term disruptions to the immune system,' Gemma C. Sharp, Ph.D., a molecular epidemiology lecturer at the University of Bristol, agreed. 'Short-lived changes to the menstrual cycle are part of the body’s normal response to things like stress and immune disruptions.'"
"The MHRA also reported that the post-vaccine menstrual disorders are temporary, and symptoms include a sudden heavy period, delayed period, or abnormal vaginal bleeding."
Short-term "post-vaccine menstrual disorders are not unique to any given vaccine. It has been noted following Pfizer’s mRNA, Moderna’s mRNA, AstraZeneca’s DNA, and Johnson & Johnson’s DNA vaccines against Covid-19, as well as the human papillomavirus vaccines (more on this later)."
"People on hormonal contraception were more likely to report changes in menstrual flow following vaccination."
"Menstrual disorders can also happen following an infection. Dr. Male cited a study finding that 25% and 28% of women of childbearing age with Covid-19 (n = 237) had changes in menstrual volume and cycle, respectively.
"So, [short-term] menstrual changes can occur after vaccination or infection, suggesting that immune reactions to a stimulus are the likely driver. Once the immune reactions subside, the menstrual changes should subside too."
"We know that vaccines are generally unrelated to [long-term] menstrual disorders, except HPV vaccines. But even the link between HPV vaccines and [long-term] menstrual disorders is inconsistent."
There are countries that saw a drop in births in 2022, but the timing with respect to vaccinations usually isn't right, when you actually dig into it.
There's also a lot of cherry-picking going on, because there are other countries that saw births go up, after vaccinations. If you pick only the ones with a drop in 2022, you can make the effect look much more suspicious than it is.
Igor Chudov responded to my post, but it's a brief conversation that didn't really resolve our differences. I think he invited me to become an anti-vaxxer, said it's a lot of fun and you get more money and followers that way.
Orthodox Jews made up around half the cases of measles in the country during the last outbreak. They're several times more likely to die from covid than the general population. If your goal is surviving easily preventable diseases, you'd likely be better off taking health advice from the Jenny McCarthy Fan Club.
"What about drop in births shown in data across countries vaccinated the most?...What about all studies which do show negative impact?" You're directly contradicting the data and conclusion presented in his post, it would be good practice to cite at least a single source for your claims.
The data is in the graphs in the post. To see if fertility fell or rose, you can just look at graphs -- and see if Covid or vaccines changed the trend.
Whether you draw the line before 2021 or 2022, neither method makes a strong case for a vaccine effect -- for example, the heavily-vaccinated nordic countries saw increases in births in 2021, as vaccines were being given out.
If you look at all those graphs and come away with the conclusion that vaccines are having a big effect on fertility, more power to you, but that's not my reading of the data.
"chickened out" he says. Not enough to be rude to just the blog host, eh? 'I believe' that you fall short of an evidently high bar, which is a grasp of the English language sufficient to realize that my word of choice, "single", is in fact a number, and that most of us have better things to do with our time than haunt substack comments. Apparently you weren't even able to grasp the relevance of death rates from communicable diseases, in religious sects opposed to vaccines against said communicable diseases.
Almost every link I clicked of the substack you repost with abandon STARTS with data in 2021 or at most a few months prior and says "birth rates have collapsed!". Omg, total collapse! ...relative to all of last month! How gullible does someone have to be to fall for this tripe? If you can't see through it on your own there's no helping you. The one link with past years of data, Taiwan? It's fake data. https://focustaiwan.tw/society/202301100012
The reason you're not getting engagement is not that you're a towering titan of logic - it's that you clearly lack the ability to understand even the basics of this stuff, as well as the humility to learn or discuss it even if you could. I'm out.
there goes my retirement plan
i was told unvaccinated sperm was the next bitcoin
Haha 😂
😢Ok, Max, I’ll bite. Let’s do it properly, shell we? Let’s turn it from a pissing match to a science resembling debate.
Let’s start at the beginning: By what standard should we judge if fertility fell, rose, or stayed unchanged?
Here's my rigorous answer, which I've finally completed analyzing. One should look over many countries and see if there is any connection between vaccination rate and unexpected change in births: https://maximumtruth.substack.com/p/debunking-a-cats-misleading-covid
Funny, Pfizer VP is caught on tape admitting that there is connection; Max Lott looks at data in graphs rigorously and says there is no.
Whom do I believe? 🤔
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/excess-mortality-news-supports-the
Real scientists find real impacts all over bodies and connect to vaxxex, -NOT vaccines!! -, many a time. Max Lott-Einstein proves them all wrong!!
https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/1638565508349067264?
Max, why stop at births? Why not show that there is no connection between mRNA therapies and myocarditis in young men?
Then move on to the next “fallacy?”
People show many ways how pharma falsified safety studies. Why not prove them wrong?
Then you will have a book practically written and can take on RFK’s takes while running for the President.
He did not admit that. He said it caused menstrual cycle disruption. That this happens is noted and discussed in my posts.
Since many other factors have influenced annual fertility data, I think the stronger response to this concern is to explain the medical logic that accounts for the symptoms such as longer menstrual cycle without cause for long-term worry.
Any major stressor can cause your body to say "nope, let's not get pregnant right now" and trip up your cycle. Such stressors can include vaccination, infection, strenuous exercise (I once had a weird month after a lengthy backpacking trip), etc. This is common and temporary.
Here's a great post on this, with the best parts excerpted below.
https://medium.com/microbial-instincts/menstrual-disruptions-after-covid-19-vaccines-what-the-literature-says-8d30044b50dd
"'Vaccine hesitancy among young women is largely driven by false claims that covid-19 vaccines could harm their chances of future pregnancy. Failing to thoroughly investigate reports of menstrual changes after vaccination is likely to fuel these fears.'"
"In fact, the Covid-19 vaccine clinical trials did not even examine symptoms of menstrual changes, a typical pattern across trials."
"'It is biologically plausible that vaccines can affect menstrual cycles through short term disruptions to the immune system,' Gemma C. Sharp, Ph.D., a molecular epidemiology lecturer at the University of Bristol, agreed. 'Short-lived changes to the menstrual cycle are part of the body’s normal response to things like stress and immune disruptions.'"
"The MHRA also reported that the post-vaccine menstrual disorders are temporary, and symptoms include a sudden heavy period, delayed period, or abnormal vaginal bleeding."
Short-term "post-vaccine menstrual disorders are not unique to any given vaccine. It has been noted following Pfizer’s mRNA, Moderna’s mRNA, AstraZeneca’s DNA, and Johnson & Johnson’s DNA vaccines against Covid-19, as well as the human papillomavirus vaccines (more on this later)."
"People on hormonal contraception were more likely to report changes in menstrual flow following vaccination."
"Menstrual disorders can also happen following an infection. Dr. Male cited a study finding that 25% and 28% of women of childbearing age with Covid-19 (n = 237) had changes in menstrual volume and cycle, respectively.
"So, [short-term] menstrual changes can occur after vaccination or infection, suggesting that immune reactions to a stimulus are the likely driver. Once the immune reactions subside, the menstrual changes should subside too."
"We know that vaccines are generally unrelated to [long-term] menstrual disorders, except HPV vaccines. But even the link between HPV vaccines and [long-term] menstrual disorders is inconsistent."
Good to know, thank you
I hope this isn't a case of "you see what you look for", but check this out. It comes to vastly different conclusions. https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/more-natality-data-from-other-countries
I haven't looked into that post, but I did make an effort to debunk some similar posts from Igor Chudov and Alex Berenson:
https://medium.com/p/f9a60c7c3f5a
There are countries that saw a drop in births in 2022, but the timing with respect to vaccinations usually isn't right, when you actually dig into it.
There's also a lot of cherry-picking going on, because there are other countries that saw births go up, after vaccinations. If you pick only the ones with a drop in 2022, you can make the effect look much more suspicious than it is.
Igor Chudov responded to my post, but it's a brief conversation that didn't really resolve our differences. I think he invited me to become an anti-vaxxer, said it's a lot of fun and you get more money and followers that way.
It's worth a look.
Thanks for flagging this, Larry. My latest post is a detailed critique of that post, plus a more rigorous analysis of the fertility data: https://maximumtruth.substack.com/p/debunking-a-cats-misleading-covid
I do think this was a case of "you see what you look for."
Thanks!
How’s the data in graphs doing? How does a statistician confirm that data in graphs is not GIGO material? 🤔
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/covid-19-vaccines-remain-pregnancy
Men with balls apologize. https://rumble.com/v28wh0u-pfizer-director-concerning-mrna-effects-on-womens-reproduction-w-naomi-wolf.html
P.S. Relying on “data in graphs” is one of the worst fallacies I’ve seen 😢
Maximum Truth is a misnomer for your “writings” Max. Consider a better suited Maximum Pravda
Even mainstream publications begin to acknowledge the obvious, which Maximum Pravda ignores whether deliberately or by ignorance. 😢
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/german-press-discusses-pfizer-vaccine
“The data is in the graphs in the post.”
https://pierrekory.substack.com/p/massive-miscarriage-rates-among-vaccinated
Men with balls apologise.
https://rumble.com/v28wh0u-pfizer-director-concerning-mrna-effects-on-womens-reproduction-w-naomi-wolf.html
Max, the Vaccine Given line is in a weird place, would not you say so? Orthodox Jews have been raising worries from the getgo.
There are studies which show no evidence of efficacy and even harm done by ivermectin, yet …
There are lies, damn lies and statistics.
What about all studies which do show negative impact? What about drop in births shown in data across countries vaccinated the most?
What about …..
Orthodox Jews made up around half the cases of measles in the country during the last outbreak. They're several times more likely to die from covid than the general population. If your goal is surviving easily preventable diseases, you'd likely be better off taking health advice from the Jenny McCarthy Fan Club.
"What about drop in births shown in data across countries vaccinated the most?...What about all studies which do show negative impact?" You're directly contradicting the data and conclusion presented in his post, it would be good practice to cite at least a single source for your claims.
How Jews dying from measles and Covid related to their raising hell about women menstrual cycles change etc.
Science is done by disproving NOT through confirmation bias. I am stunned Max does not know basic fundamental principles of science
“ it would be good practice to cite at least a single source for your claims.”
One source?? Have not you seen government data from all over the world???
Ok, name a number 😉
The data is in the graphs in the post. To see if fertility fell or rose, you can just look at graphs -- and see if Covid or vaccines changed the trend.
Whether you draw the line before 2021 or 2022, neither method makes a strong case for a vaccine effect -- for example, the heavily-vaccinated nordic countries saw increases in births in 2021, as vaccines were being given out.
If you look at all those graphs and come away with the conclusion that vaccines are having a big effect on fertility, more power to you, but that's not my reading of the data.
How does this answer my question? You don’t know what the word standard means? 🤯
Ok, you are for the pissing match? I’ll play by your rules though they have nothing to do with science.
Have you check readily available data from the governments of Germany? Hungary? Schotland? …. Taiwan?
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/new-data-from-germany-births-and
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/hungary-most-vaccinated-counties
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/taiwan-birth-rate-cratered-2766-in
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/uk-births-in-england-collapsed-and
I believe you asked for links and chickened out to name a number.
Let me know if you want more https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/new-data-from-germany-births-and
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/hungary-most-vaccinated-counties
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/taiwan-birth-rate-cratered-2766-in
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/uk-births-in-england-collapsed-and
"chickened out" he says. Not enough to be rude to just the blog host, eh? 'I believe' that you fall short of an evidently high bar, which is a grasp of the English language sufficient to realize that my word of choice, "single", is in fact a number, and that most of us have better things to do with our time than haunt substack comments. Apparently you weren't even able to grasp the relevance of death rates from communicable diseases, in religious sects opposed to vaccines against said communicable diseases.
Almost every link I clicked of the substack you repost with abandon STARTS with data in 2021 or at most a few months prior and says "birth rates have collapsed!". Omg, total collapse! ...relative to all of last month! How gullible does someone have to be to fall for this tripe? If you can't see through it on your own there's no helping you. The one link with past years of data, Taiwan? It's fake data. https://focustaiwan.tw/society/202301100012
The reason you're not getting engagement is not that you're a towering titan of logic - it's that you clearly lack the ability to understand even the basics of this stuff, as well as the humility to learn or discuss it even if you could. I'm out.
😂 «The reason you're not getting engagement is not that you're a towering titan of logic …»
The reason I am not getting engagement is because there are literally handful of readers on this blog. I am doing just fine on others.
I am sorry to lose such an intellectual giant as an opponent. 😢🤣