Naomi Wolf testimony at European Parliament accusing EU Commission president Ursla Von de Leyen of covering up Pfizer crimes

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I was forwarded this video earlier today and it really twigged me and made me fearful for my daughter and wife who both took the Covid-19 vaccinations.

At one point early in the Q&A Ms. Wolf implied that the vaccination was a bioweapon released by China and targeting the West. This twigged me to transcribe and fact check the entire initial 35 minutes of testimony.

After fact checking it I feel much less concerned about my family having taken these vaccinations and wanted to share the results of my research here.

Broadly speaking, with the benefit of hindsight and reflection, Ms. Wolf's testimony is highly rhetorical, blending factual fragments with conjecture. You can see that she has passion and conviction, but ultimately the delivery feels manipulative and cherry picked. She uses moral appeals and emotive storytelling to frame the vaccine as not just a medical product with pros and cons, but as an purposeful bioweapon combined with an epic betrayal of public trust.

Viewers should be aware of these techniques. They can make the message compelling, but they also distort the truth by emphasizing worst-case scenarios, amplifying small sample sizes into large unproven conclusions, and implying intent where there may be none. They are also inherently dismissive of counter-evidence or complexity, having not cited either.

Engaging with her claims requires careful separation of the valid concerns (e.g., acknowledging rare side effects like myocarditis or the need for transparency) from the dramatic narrative in which those concerns are embedded. Each of the points she raises needs to be weighed against the full scope of scientific data and context – when that is done (as attempted below), it becomes clear that while some issues are real, the idea of a planned or catastrophic betrayal is unsupported by evidence.

THE VIDEO:


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I found this one to be low quality video found this Youtube of the same event:


Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBUimaBS86k

Testimony (First 35 Minutes)
Transcript (0:00 – 35:00)

Spoiler: Highlighted transcription of the first 35 minutes of this video (the original source material of the claims)

Christine Anderson (Member of European Parliament): All right, ladies and gentlemen, thank you so much for coming. I think it is a very important evening tonight because here it is – this is what I call the smoking gun. In this documentation, it becomes quite clear – and Naomi will then of course elaborate on that – Pfizer lied, and so did our governments.

And how did it all start? It started pretty much with something called the Freedom of Information Act requiring Pfizer – respectively the FDA, the Food and Drug Administration of the United States – to release these Pfizer papers. Pfizer (and the FDA) did not want to do that, and petitioned a court. They wanted the judge to allow the FDA to keep the papers under wraps for 75 years. Interestingly enough, in Germany this April there has been talk about abolishing the so-called Freedom of Information Act – so citizens could no longer ask the government for information. That's a big tell: they no longer want citizens to even know what the government should be publishing. But that is just a side note.

So, the FDA wanted the Pfizer papers to be locked up for 75 years, which – at first – the judge did go with. Then they offered, "Well, we would be prepared to publish 500 pages per month," which in essence would have taken 75 years to get all of the papers out because in total it was roughly 450,000 pages. Well, the judge didn't want any of that, and he ordered the FDA to release 55,000 pages per month, over a period of about one to one and a half years. Then it was all there .

Our very honorable guest tonight, Dr. Naomi Wolf – your concern was that it would just be lost in history, as you said earlier, because there is no way a layman can sift through 450,000 pages of highly technical information. So what Naomi managed to do was to gather how many… 2,000? 3,000? 3,500 volunteers globally, sifting through that information and putting it all together for everyone to see and read. Like I said, it is the smoking gun. We have the information.

I just remember today – and I actually looked it up – it was on July 25, 2022. I made a public comment at an event like this, and I will read to you what I said three years ago: "This mRNA campaign will go down in history as the biggest medical scandal ever. Moreover, it will go down as the biggest crime committed against humanity." Back then, anyone could have known if they wanted to know. All you had to do was go through the adverse event reports in the United States, and you would have found out that within the first seven months of the rollout of the mRNA injection, there were 20 times more serious adverse effects and 23 times more deaths reported than for all other vaccines combined ever since they were rolled out in the 1970s . I repeat: in seven months of mRNA injections, 20 times more serious side effects and 23 times more deaths reported than all other vaccines combined over a period of 30 years.

This is the lie that people have had literally pushed down their throats. They have been threatened, ostracized, criminalized – you name it, it went on. So it was particularly interesting that I made this comment three years ago, and I read it in your book – in the very first pages, Naomi, you said the very same thing. And I stand by that comment, and I will be repeating it in times to come.

Anyway, you didn't come here to listen to my boring remarks. I'm pretty sure you all came to see and hear Dr. Naomi… Campbell – Campbell, thank you. (Can you imagine? Great, isn't it? Great.) Dr. Naomi Wolf, of course. I really have to thank you – you put in a lot of work. Just flipping through the pages, it is so much information. But to compile it and put it together for laymen to understand and read – to really understand the massive lie that we have been subjected to – is truly important. I would like you all to join me in welcoming the great Naomi Wolf. Thank you so much for coming. Thank you.

Naomi Wolf: Thank you all, thank you so much. Can you hear me loud and clear if I sit at this distance? Wonderful.

Well, thank you, MEP Anderson. Thank you to your so hospitable staff, who have welcomed me and my husband Brian O'Shea to Brussels. And thank you all for taking time from your incredibly important work to sit with us here. Thank you to those watching online.

I just want to say before I begin that it's extremely moving to me to be sitting in this place, in the heart of Europe, and meeting so many people from different political perspectives, different ways. I consider myself a liberal – all my life I've been a Democrat. I advised the Clinton team and Vice President Gore in his election campaign. But that really doesn't matter. Ms. Anderson or other MEPs whom I've met here, colleagues from whatever political party – it doesn't matter, because what's happening right now in Europe and the United States and worldwide is an extraordinary historical moment related to what I'm going to tell you.

All over the world, people are realizing that what divides us in policy terms or political labels is not nearly as important as our fundamental core values as Europeans, as North Americans – people around the world who love freedom and individual human rights, the rule of law. And that's what was targeted, ultimately, by these injections (as it's being targeted in other ways – I will explain that). Fundamentally, whatever the political party of the people I'm meeting here, we are brothers and sisters; we are allies, because first of all we need to save European democracy (as we are saving American democracy). We need to save democracies, the rule of law, and free speech around the world. So I just want to say that before we begin.

Shall I launch right in? All right. Some of you may know who I am – I've been a public figure since I was 26 years old – and others may not. I'm a long-standing, best-selling feminist author. I've written nine best-selling books, translated into many European languages. I was a Rhodes Scholar; I got a D.Phil. at Oxford University in English Literature. I'm not a medical doctor – but I am a journalist. I've appeared in every major news outlet – I was a columnist for The Guardian and for the Sunday Times of London, and so on.

But all of that didn't matter in June of 2021, when I – which covered women's reproductive health – when I noted that women were reporting eyewitness accounts of their bodies. (As a feminist, you're supposed to be allowed to listen to women about their bodies.) They were reporting eyewitness accounts of menstrual damage upon having received the mRNA injection. Literally that was my post – and overnight I was cancelled from Twitter (then called Twitter, now X), cancelled from Facebook, YouTube. My bio changed around the world simultaneously – which is interesting, I didn't think AI had rolled out then, but something did that – it went from "Rhodes Scholar, doctorate at Oxford" to "conspiracy theorist." And overnight, every major news outlet that had published me and featured me for 40 years closed their doors to me. I was literally voiceless.

That doesn't really matter – what happened to me personally – except that a warning signal that women around the world were entitled to have about their own bodies and reproductive health was intentionally silenced. I found out later, during lawsuits brought by the state attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana, that it was people for whom I had voted – the Biden administration, notably senior people at the CDC, the Census Bureau (which knows where I live, whom I'm related to), other agencies (including law enforcement agencies) – that had colluded to put pressure on Twitter and Facebook and other social media sites to silence my tweet and to discredit me . That was very terrifying – to find out the most powerful government in the world had singled you out. By the way, we have a First Amendment in the United States, thank God – and two courts now (or two settlements) have found that my constitutional First Amendment rights were violated, and that the administration had no legal right to silence a citizen . But that happened.

So as a journalist, I realized that there must be a story here – because why go to so much trouble to suppress this simple tweet of mine? And in 2022, as you described, the successful lawsuit by attorney Aaron Siri led to the forced release of 450,000 documents from Pfizer in the custody of our FDA (the documents that the FDA wanted to hide for 75 years) . Now, at that time I was only being hosted by Steve Bannon, the far right-wing commentator (another example of how I don't agree with Mr. Bannon on a lot of issues – I'm still a liberal – but he cared about what was happening to women and children). So I was talking on his show about these issues, and he said, "These documents will be lost to history. Of course you're going to convene a group of experts to go through them." And I said on the air, "Of course I am" – not having any experience in doing that. But miraculously, 3,500 doctors and scientists did convene and worked for two and a half years pro bono, in service of humanity but also out of love for science and medicine, to read through these massive technical documents and to issue what are now 105 reports. (Fifty of them are in that book, if you would kindly hold it up at some point.)

We published these reports in real time. Now before I tell you what's in the Pfizer documents, I just want to note that it's been two and a half years since we began publishing these reports, and we have not received a lawyer's letter from Pfizer. So what is reported is accurate. No one from Pfizer is telling us to cease and desist. It's accurate. And also, it's not my opinion – I want to stress that. I'm not the author of this book; I'm an editor of it. Amy Kelly is the leader of the effort (my COO). But what's in this book are reports that link directly to the primary documents. So if you have any doubt about any conclusion in any of these reports, you can check the Pfizer documents and see for yourself what that primary document looks like.

All right – so what's in the Pfizer documents? First of all, and I think this is very important for you as MEPs: Pfizer knew a month into the rollout of this injection to the public (so, by November 2020) that this vaccine did not work to stop COVID. I want you to process and absorb that. It means that everything that followed – the mandates, the lost jobs, the businesses that had to close, the children not allowed to go back to school or university if they didn't take the shot, the armed forces compelled to take the shot, the pilots compelled – all of that, the two-tier society, the suppression of liberties – was predicated on a lie. Pfizer concluded (in its documents) "efficacy [was] as expected, vaccine failure," and the most common side effect of getting vaccinated was COVID . So everything that followed was a lie.

Second, they knew that the injection did not stay in your deltoid. I'm sure that Europeans – probably through the EMA, the European Medicines Agency, like our FDA – or other public health entities told people here, "If you have side effects, it's likely to be chills, fever, a little fatigue, you may need to lie down." They also said the material stays in the injection site. They knew that was a lie. In fact, in the Pfizer documents there are charts showing that the materials – the spike protein, the mRNA, the lipid nanoparticles (which is a petroleum byproduct, polyethylene glycol – a petroleum byproduct – surrounding the lipid nanoparticles, an industrial fat) – didn't stay in the deltoid. They biodistributed within 48 hours; they leave the injection site and biodistribute to major organs throughout the body. They cross the blood-brain barrier – you may have noticed personality changes in some of your loved ones who took this injection. They also accumulate in the liver, the adrenals, the spleen, the lymphatic system, and if you're a woman, they accumulate in your ovaries. This is an industrial fat accumulating in women's ovaries. Right? So the first injection accumulates in your ovaries; the second injection, more accumulates in your ovaries. Our experts could not find any mechanism whereby this material leaves the body (male or female). So by the first booster, people are already reporting – when surgeons do surgery on vaccinated women – that they have fully bloated ovaries, okay? As well as other kinds of damage. Pfizer knew that.

Pfizer knew that they had to hire 2,400 full-time staff in order to process the reports of serious adverse events they were already starting to receive . And indeed, within the Pfizer documents (covering end of 2020 to February 2021), that period tallied up over 42,000 serious adverse events – many individuals had multiple serious adverse events – and an overwhelming number of side effects that were not just fever and chills, but in fact things you were not told about. The number one side effect in the Pfizer documents is something called myalgia, which is muscle pain. How many people do you know who "just don't feel well" now? Pfizer knew they would feel bad – doctors are baffled: myalgia. The second most common side effect is joint pain (because these injections are inflammatory, and Pfizer knew that. What is arthritis? What is tendon pain? It's inflammation. How many people do you know who are limping or had to have knee replacements, hip replacements, shoulder replacements – young healthy people, many of them? Pfizer knew). The third most common side effect, as I mentioned, is COVID – but after that, there is a catastrophic, industrial-scale tallying of horrifically serious side effects, notably heart damage (myocarditis, pericarditis, problems with aortas), a great deal of blood damage (thrombocytopenia, blood clots – lung clots, leg clots – these lipid nanoparticles create clotting in the body). Everyone knew that about lipid nanoparticles before this mRNA rollout – anyone who worked with them.

Also neurological events. Our experts found that the lipid nanoparticles strip the myelin sheath from nerves – which is how electricity is conducted in a nerve impulse. So of course you're getting tremors (how many people do you know now have tremors?), you're getting Guillain-Barré, you're getting dementias, epilepsy-type seizures – horrific neurological events. And autoimmune disorders of all kinds (lupus-type disorders), because now we know these injections damage the immune system. Also things that would surprise you: a huge amount of eye damage – blindness, eye damage of all kinds. In addition to all of these side effects – you know, miscarriages (I'll get into the reproductive damage) – 1,200 deaths in three months. These were not statistically random people who just happened to die (or were old or had prior conditions) – 1,200 deaths that doctors let Pfizer or the authorities know needed to be recorded because there was some suspicion of causality. These were smoking guns – you called this the smoking gun, and indeed two of our reports show, in my view, causality. Half of the liver and stroke serious adverse events took place within 48 hours after the injection (including deaths). Pfizer knew this.

Pfizer knew by April of 2021 that minors were being injured by this vaccine – specifically, they knew about myocarditis and pericarditis (heart damage) in young people. Never before have we had healthy young people dropping dead on playing fields. But what Pfizer knew was that 35 minors had sustained heart damage. Indeed, one of the most scandalous things that our work has surfaced is that the FDA knew, the CDC knew – Dr. Walensky knew – by April of 2021. The Israeli Ministry of Health was trying to tell the CDC and the Biden administration that minors were having their hearts damaged. Instead of acting, we FOIA'd (filed a Freedom of Information Act request for) the Biden administration's records at that time mentioning myocarditis. We found active conversation – including to POTUS (the President of the United States) – surfacing all the way up to the White House: 15 White House staffers, Dr. Walensky, Dr. Fauci, the head of HHS, all on these communications where they were talking about myocarditis in minors following the shot. But instead of saying, "We have to pull this – we have to tell the parents of America (and by extension the world) to save their children and young adults from this risk," they were deciding how to spin and cover up. They issued a 17-page document that, even after the FOIA, is completely redacted – a script that they used to spend the next three months of summer telling parents to get their minors injected . Indeed, they ran a big influencer TikTok campaign encouraging young adults and minors to get injected – and they knew that kids would sustain what is often deadly heart damage from these injections. They knew. In fact, Senator Ron Johnson (now under this administration) is using our work to un-redact those documents and shine a light on that cover-up. He held hearings about it.

Pfizer knew all of these things. But all these side effects, all this damage – isn't the most shocking, surprising thing in the Pfizer documents. I'll tell you what is. You know, COVID is a respiratory infection – so you would expect a lot of information in Pfizer's documents about lungs, oxygen levels, mucous membranes. No – there's almost nothing about respiratory issues in the Pfizer documents. What there is, is a 360-degree obsessive focus on ruining human reproduction. Sperm, fallopian tubes, ova, placentas, fetuses in utero, birth, lactation – that's what they were studying. That's what they were focused on. Why is that? Why did they take male and female rats – male vaccinated, female unvaccinated – mate them, then sacrifice the rats and examine the cells of their sex organs, for a respiratory infection? Why is that? Overwhelmingly, the focus is on ruining human reproduction.

Let me give you some examples. They knew (as I mentioned) that it blocks the ovaries, which could contribute to the menstrual damage I mentioned. They also knew, as I mentioned, that the lipid nanoparticles are designed to cross every membrane in the body. What is a membrane? The placenta is a membrane. The lipid nanoparticles traverse the placenta of women who were told (in my country) to get this injection during their pregnancies – violating decades of knowledge about how to not hurt babies in utero (you don't give a pregnant woman anything experimental). But women were told to inject this. It traverses the placenta – it causes calcifications in the placenta, which prevent the baby from getting nutrients and oxygen. In fact, in my country, midwives independently are reporting (leaking to me as a journalist – when you have multiple independent reports, there's a story there) that babies are being born early because the placentas cannot grow normally. People are nodding – they're seeing the same thing, no doubt, in Europe or hearing reports of it. The placentas are flat (they send me pictures) – not normal, not fully supplied with blood and oxygen – and so babies have to be delivered early. It's not that easy to deliver a baby from a mother whose placenta has been impaired. Placentas are falling apart in the delivery process. What does that mean? It means women are hemorrhaging during childbirth or retaining part of the placenta (which is so dangerous). So maternal fetal mortality – women dying in childbirth in the West (which had largely solved this deadly problem of the past) – is up 40% since the injections. Pfizer knew.

Pfizer knew that the lipid nanoparticles would go into the baby. Again, what's a membrane? They knew the lipid nanoparticles would traverse the membrane around the testes of baby boys in utero, thus degrading the Sertoli cells and Leydig cells of baby boys of vaccinated moms (even if the babies are not vaccinated, they're getting this from their moms). What does that do? Sertoli cells and Leydig cells are the factories of masculinity – they switch on the hormones of masculinity at adolescence, triggering what we think of as traditional adult male development (deep voices, broad shoulders, body hair, facial hair, and as an adult, the ability to father a child successfully). We don't even know if these baby boys in utero, at adolescence, will grow into normal fertile adult males – even if they're never vaccinated with this mRNA injection – because Pfizer knew they were damaging the testes of baby boys in utero.

They knew they were damaging sperm. An andrology report confirmed that the injection reduced motility of sperm in men. And to this day (this is a job for you all, I believe), to this day I suspect Pfizer knows something about dangers to women from vaccinated men's sperm that they are not disclosing. In the Pfizer documents, there's a warning to men who were subjects of the study not to have intercourse with unvaccinated women of childbearing age, and if they do, to use two reliable forms of contraception. Pfizer defines exposure to the vaccine as including (shedding is supposed to be a conspiracy theory, right?) – as including skin contact, inhalation (breathing), and sexual intercourse with a vaccinated male's semen. To this day, we don't know what that is. We know that women anecdotally are having horrible cramps and problems when they have intercourse with vaccinated husbands; we don't know why Pfizer said "don't do that." I can tell you one hypothetical a little further on.

They told women in the study not to get pregnant. Nonetheless, 270 women got pregnant during the study (vaccinated women). Now 234 of them – the records of what happened to those pregnancies were lost, which is illegal. Pfizer is supposed to follow them through pregnancy. However, of the 36 women whose outcomes were tracked, over 80% of them lost their babies – over 80% . Pfizer knew that. One of the most chilling things in the Pfizer papers is something called a Pregnancy and Lactation Report. (I'm feeling the heaviness in the room, and I empathize – this is very dark news. But I also want to say there's a lot that can be done, and you all are in a powerful position to do it. So please bear with me through the rest of this darkness, because this is very serious, but there are ways to engage with this information constructively after you have it.)

The Pregnancy and Lactation Report is an eight-page document that was prepared specifically for the White House and given to Dr. Walensky, to the FDA, to the White House in April of 2021. Now, I am the daughter and granddaughter of immigrants, but I'm also the granddaughter of two people who lost eight siblings in the Holocaust. That's why I'm sitting here with you today – because if that wasn't part of our family's history, I wouldn't understand so clearly the importance of raising these warnings and calling attention to these atrocities. I've studied deeply the history of Nazi medicine as a result. When I saw the Pregnancy and Lactation Report, as a Jew and as the granddaughter of people whose family were wiped out by that regime, this was a very chilling and recognizable document.

It had charts – very scientific, neutral, careful charts – that, to even a superficial student of history, are recognizable. These careful charts show horrific damage to women and babies in the Pregnancy and Lactation Report. There is a chart showing menstrual damage to tens of thousands of women: 15,000 women bleeding every day after being injected; 10,000 women having two periods a month; 7,500 women having no periods at all (meaning they're now totally infertile). 10-year-old girls bleeding upon being injected; 85-year-old women bleeding after being injected; women hemorrhaging, passing clots – lives ruined and certainly fertility ruined – all documented meticulously by Pfizer in the Pregnancy and Lactation Report, which went to the White House and to Dr. Rochelle Walensky and the FDA . I'm quite sure if you investigate, you will find comparable charts that went to your leaders across Europe, because they were all on the same page. (But I'm getting ahead of my story.)

Also in the Pregnancy and Lactation Report is a chart showing that they experimented on babies – and they knew it. They experimented on at least 20 infants (some of them through Pfizer, some through Moderna) to death. It showed that babies who were nursing from vaccinated moms – some had vomiting, some had edema (swollen tissue), some had fever, some had failure to thrive (they couldn't gain weight), some were inconsolable (I can never get that phrase out of my head). One poor baby went into convulsions after nursing from a vaccinated mom, then was rushed to the ER and died after multi-organ system failure – her whole system shut down. What did Pfizer know? What is breast milk made of? (I learned this in this process.) It's made of the building blocks of lymph and blood. So the lipid nanoparticles, the polyethylene glycol that are in the blood and lymph of vaccinated moms, are turning into poisoned milk that is poisoning their babies. Pfizer knew it. And to this day, the women of Europe don't know it; the women of America for the most part don't know it (unless they happen to have heard me or come upon this book). So they're at risk. And nursing, which is such an important part of human development and bonding and the immune system, has gone from 34% of all babies and moms to 14% of babies and moms (in the US) – because babies' first experience of human intimacy (nursing at the breast) is now poisoned nourishment . They don't have the words to say it to their moms or dads – but Pfizer knew.

So this went to the White House, and three days later, on April 23, 2021, Dr. Rochelle Walensky (a mother, I should note) gave a White House press conference to the people of my nation, saying – with this in hand – "There's no bad time to get your COVID mRNA injection – before you get pregnant, during your pregnancy, or after your baby is born." She said that knowing this. Lastly, in the Pregnancy and Lactation Report, two babies died in utero, and Pfizer concluded that they died due to "maternal exposure" to the vaccine. So Pfizer knew that they were going to kill babies – that they were killing babies and putting them at risk.

(The transcript covers the first 35 minutes of the video. The testimony continues beyond this point.)

Summary of Main Claims (First 35 Minutes)

1. Claim: U.S. FDA and Pfizer tried to hide COVID-19 vaccine trial data by delaying its release for 75 years.
   Status: Verifiable/Supported.
2. Claim: Within the first 7 months of the vaccine rollout, there were 20 times more serious adverse events and 23 times more vaccine-related deaths reported in the U.S. than from all other vaccines in the prior 30 years.
   Status: Disputed (Misleading use of data).
   
   Evidence: This claim originates from raw reports in the CDC's Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). It is true that VAERS saw an unprecedented volume of reports after COVID-19 vaccination began in late 2020 – reaching levels far above all prior vaccines combined.
   
   Source: Factcheck.org
   
   Importantly, many experts contest that this comparison is misleading and not proof of unusual danger for a bunch of reasons:
   a. reporting bias
   b. high public awareness
   c. unverified reports
   
   Ultimately the 20x-23X phenomena can largely be explained away by the enormous scale of the vaccination effort.
   
   Source: Factcheck.org
   
   
3. Claim: The COVID-19 vaccine campaign will go down as the "biggest medical scandal" and "biggest crime against humanity," implying intentional wrongdoing.
   Status: Unsupported (Opinion).
   
   Explanation: This sweeping claim is rhetorical rather than a factual statement. It expresses an opinion that the vaccination drive was a historic crime, akin to deliberate harm against humanity.
   
   
4. Claim: Naomi Wolf was subjected to government-instigated censorship for raising concerns (e.g. about menstrual side effects), which violated her First Amendment rights.
   Status: Verifiable/Supported (partially).
   
   Evidence: Wolf's accounts of being deplatformed from major social media in mid-2021 after discussing menstrual disturbances post-vaccine are accurate – her Twitter account was indeed suspended in June 2021 after such posts. More importantly, documents revealed through lawsuits (such as Missouri v. Biden) have shown that U.S. federal officials pressured social media companies to curb what they viewed as "misinformation."
   
   Source: Firstamendment.mtsu.edu
   
   
5. Claim: Pfizer's internal trial documents, released under court order, have exposed numerous hidden dangers of the vaccine, and Pfizer has not refuted these findings.
   Status: Partially Verifiable (mixed).
   
   Evidence: Wolf spearheaded a project that compiled over 100 reports analyzing the Pfizer vaccine trial and post-marketing documents. Some findings in those documents are indeed verifiable and not disputed by Pfizer. For example, it's true that Pfizer's post-authorization safety report (covering Dec 2020–Feb 2021) listed 42,086 case reports of adverse events and 1,223 deaths in that period, as pointed out by Wolf.
   
   
6. Claim: Pfizer knew from the start (November 2020) that the vaccine did not prevent COVID-19 infection or transmission, meaning all subsequent public health mandates were based on a lie.
   Status: Disputed (Misleading).
   
   Evidence: It is true that the initial clinical trials tested efficacy against symptomatic COVID-19 disease, not against infection or transmission. Pfizer never claimed in 2020 that the vaccine completely blocked transmission; regulators like the FDA noted at authorization that "data are not available to determine if the vaccine prevents transmission".
   
   Source: Factcheck.org
   
   While many politicians and "Mainstream Media" pundits and talking heads made this claim, there does not appear to be any evidence that Pfizer made it.
   
   
7. Claim: Pfizer (and regulators) falsely said the vaccine's mRNA and lipid nanoparticles would remain in the injection site, but in reality they bio-distribute widely – within 48 hours the LNPs/spike travel through the bloodstream to organs including liver, spleen, adrenals, and especially ovaries and even the brain.
   Status: Partially Verifiable (but exaggerated consequences).
   
   Evidence: Wolf references a Japanese study (a Pfizer biodistribution study) submitted to regulators that tracked where the vaccine's lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) went in rats. It is true that this study found the LNPs did not just stay in the injection muscle; they were detected in the liver, spleen, ovaries, and other tissues of rats.
   Source: Factcheck.org
   
   Importantly, however, regulators concluded there was no lasting toxic accumulation concerns and that no fertility or reproductive damage was observed in animal studies.
   Source: NIH
   
   Ultimately, Wolf's core point – that simplistic public messaging ("it stays in your arm") was inaccurate – has some validity. Health officials did incorrectly reassure the public that the vaccine stays in the arm muscle; this was an oversimplification. The vaccine components did in fact travel via lymph/blood to lymph nodes and organs. However, Wolf grossly magnifies the significance. The presence of LNPs in ovaries does not mean it "accumulates and permanently damages" them. Reproductive toxicology studies found no effect on female rat fertility or offspring from the vaccine.
   
   
8. Claim: The vaccine causes a wide array of serious side effects – e.g. myocarditis, blood clots, neurological issues (Guillain-Barré, seizures), immune dysfunction, and even blindness – which Pfizer knew about but did not fully disclose.
   Status: Partially Verifiable but Misleading (exaggeration).
   
   Evidence: There is substantiated truth that mRNA COVID-19 vaccines can, in rare cases, cause certain serious adverse events. For example: myocarditis (inflammation of the heart, particularly in young males) is a known vaccine-associated risk, acknowledged by Pfizer, FDA, CDC, and reflected in warnings by mid-2021.
   
   
   Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/AHomeForPlagueRats/comments/1ne6c5d/naomi_wolf_von_der_leyen_lied_about_pfizer_safety/#:~:text=21%3A56%20trying%20to%20tell%20uh,administration%20that%20minors%20were%20having
   
   
9. Claim: Pfizer and U.S. health officials knew by April 2021 that the vaccine was causing myocarditis in teenagers, but rather than halt the campaign or warn the public, they covered it up for months (e.g. with a "redacted 17-page playbook" to downplay heart risks) while pushing shots on young people.
   Status: Disputed (Partly true timeline, but "cover-up" is overstated).
   
   Evidence: It is correct that by spring 2021, signals of myocarditis in young men after mRNA vaccination began to emerge. Israel's Health Ministry and U.S. military doctors noticed cases by April, and data was communicated to U.S. officials . Internal communications (obtained via FOIA) show that U.S. CDC and other officials were aware of these reports and were formulating a response. However, describing the subsequent actions as a "cover-up" is debatable.
   
   
   Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/AHomeForPlagueRats/comments/1ne6c5d/naomi_wolf_von_der_leyen_lied_about_pfizer_safety/#:~:text=21%3A44%20scandalous%20things%20that%20our,the%20FDA%20knew%2C%20the%20CDC
   
   
10. Claim: Pfizer's documents show a "360-degree focus on reproduction" – numerous studies and findings that the vaccine harms reproductive organs and functions: damaging ovarian follicles, menstrual cycles, placentas, fetal development, the testes of baby boys in utero, sperm quality, etc. Wolf argues this indicates an intentional or reckless assault on human fertility.
    Status: Unsupported (Not backed by credible evidence; misinterpretation of standard studies).
    
    Evidence: This is one of Wolf's most alarming claims, suggesting the vaccine was effectively a tool to "ruin human reproduction." Pfizer and regulators did conduct extensive reproductive toxicology studies – as is standard for any new drug or vaccine intended for wide use. Those studies included: fertility and developmental studies in rats (including examining ovaries, testes, mating outcomes, and offspring), and monitoring of menstrual effects in trial participants, outcomes of pregnancies during trials, etc. The results of those studies do not show reproductive harm – quite the opposite. Pfizer's reproductive toxicity study in rats found no negative effects on female rats' fertility or ability to carry healthy pups.
    
    https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8163337/#:~:text=,fetal or postnatal survival
    
    
11. Claim: Breastfeeding infants have been "poisoned" by vaccine mRNA/LNPs in breast milk – Pfizer knew that vaccinated mothers' breast milk sickened and even killed some babies (one case of infant death after nursing) but this warning never reached the public.
    Status: Disputed/Partly true (rare case reports exist, but no evidence of widespread harm).
    
    Evidence: It's understandable that hearing of any infant's death temporally associated with breast milk exposure would cause alarm. In Pfizer's post-authorization data, Wolf cites that at least one breastfeeding infant experienced seizures and died after the mother's vaccination
    
    
    Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/AHomeForPlagueRats/comments/1ne6c5d/naomi_wolf_von_der_leyen_lied_about_pfizer_safety/#:~:text=33%3A05%20these%20ones%20had%20failure,can%20never%20get%20that%20out
    
    The vast majority of evidence shows no harmful components in breast milk and no adverse impact on infants. For example, a UC San Diego study of 180 breastfeeding mothers who received mRNA vaccines found no serious adverse events in their breastfed infants.
    
    https://health.ucsd.edu/news/press-releases/2021-09-08-study-no-serious-covid-19-vaccine-side-effects-in-breastfeeding-moms-infants/#:~:text=Researchers found after Pfizer and,exhibited no serious side effects
    
    
12. Claim: Ursula von der Leyen (President of the European Commission) lied about the Pfizer vaccine's safety and made secretive deals – implying corruption at the highest level and betrayal of the public.
    Status: Undetermined (Specifics not covered in first 35 min, but context of concerns exists).
    
    Evidence: While Ursula von der Leyen is not directly mentioned by Wolf in the transcribed 35 minutes, the video's title and introduction accuse von der Leyen of covering up "Pfizer's crimes" and engaging in secret deals. This likely alludes to real controversies: von der Leyen was involved in negotiating EU vaccine purchase agreements, and it came to light that she exchanged text messages with Pfizer's CEO during the dealmaking. There has been criticism over lack of transparency – the European Ombudsman and Court of Auditors rebuked the Commission for not preserving or disclosing those texts.
    
    
    Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/AHomeForPlagueRats/comments/1ne6c5d/naomi_wolf_von_der_leyen_lied_about_pfizer_safety/#:~:text=Naomi%20Wolf%20delivered%20an%20explosive,prioritizing%20corporate%20interests%20over%20transparency

 

[Ann K]

Hi, @curtispenner . TL;DR, for the most part; its best to give a short quote, then link to the whole thing for those who want all the details.

I note that (even if VAERS were reliable, which it's not, since it's self-reported data) the number of side effects she claims are minuscule in comparison to the approximate 1.5 billion Pfizer COVID shots given in a short time in the EU and USA alone. (The tan section is Pfizer in the chart.)
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/covid-vaccine-doses-by-manufacturer?country=OWID_EU27~USA

(A known side effect of NOT getting the vaccine is, of course, death. I'm in the age demographic most affected, and pre-vaccine availability I had several friends who died of Covid.)

 

[Mendel]

TL;DR, for the most part; its best to give a short quote, then link to the whole thing for those who want all the details.

I like to put the long bits in a spoiler, that keeps them in the post.

I repeat: in seven months of mRNA injections, 20 times more serious side effects and 23 times more deaths reported than all other vaccines combined over a period of 30 years.

This is the lie that people have had literally pushed down their throats.

I'd agree to that.

the most common side effect of getting vaccinated was COVID

That means fewer adverse events than Covid infections? and we know these are far less severe in vaccinated people from the actual data, so that's good.

Now 234 of them – the records of what happened to those pregnancies were lost, which is illegal. Pfizer is supposed to follow them through pregnancy. However, of the 36 women whose outcomes were tracked, over 80% of them lost their babies – over 80% .

A 15% miscarriage rate is pretty good.
The point with adverse events is that you need to compare them to a base line. If 2% of the vaccinated population die in the subsequent 12 months, and 2.2% of the unvaccinated people die in the same time, then vaccination looks pretty good. (I made these numbers up.)
You always need to look at the base line, and for miscarriages in the USA, it can be fairly high, so you also need to consider the demographics. Without a clear idea of what's normal, it is easy to scare people.
A good study provides a valid basis for comparison, not just one-sided data.

Claim: U.S. FDA and Pfizer tried to hide COVID-19 vaccine trial data by delaying its release for 75 years.
Status: Verifiable/Supported.

It was pretty obvious that they thought redacting the personal information out of these 450,000 pages of patient records was a waste of time and money. I agree. The judge did not.

For example, it's true that Pfizer's post-authorization safety report (covering Dec 2020–Feb 2021) listed 42,086 case reports of adverse events and 1,223 deaths in that period, as pointed out by Wolf.

Like I just explained, these numbers mean nothing without context.

 

[John J.]

Claim: Breastfeeding infants have been "poisoned" by vaccine mRNA/LNPs in breast milk – Pfizer knew that vaccinated mothers' breast milk sickened and even killed some babies (one case of infant death after nursing) but this warning never reached the public.
Status: Disputed/Partly true (rare case reports exist, but no evidence of widespread harm).

Evidence: It's understandable that hearing of any infant's death temporally associated with breast milk exposure would cause alarm. In Pfizer's post-authorization data, Wolf cites that at least one breastfeeding infant experienced seizures and died after the mother's vaccination...

Adverse events and suspected adverse events are reported. For breastfeeding mothers, this includes illness/ symptoms in their child, which is as it should be. Not all reported adverse events are in fact due to the intervention (e.g. vaccination); some are coincidental.
Association is not causation.
The death of a child is always a tragedy, whatever the circumstances. But without relevant medical evidence, e.g. an autopsy report, a reported association (a nursing mother is vaccinated, her child subsequently dies) might not be evidence of causation.

If Wolf said "...at least one", this means she has evidence (as interpreted by her) of one such case.
The assessment of Wolf's claim as

Status: Disputed/Partly true

might depend on us accepting Wolf's account as accurate.

Wolf's ability to accurately interpret and share complex information might be questionable:

Naomi Rebekah Wolf (born 1962) is an American feminist author, journalist, and conspiracy theorist.

Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Wolf; under "COVID-19 pandemic" the article states

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Wolf has frequently promoted COVID-19 misinformation, misinformation related to vaccination and 5G conspiracy theories.

Wolf's 2019 book Outrages: Sex, Censorship, and the Criminalization of Love was withdrawn by the publisher (Virago Press) after the historian Matthew Sweet, and others, pointed out serious factual errors: people who Wolf claimed had been executed hadn't been

It took half an hour online to discover records that showed her executed Victorians remained stubbornly alive...

...and she misrepresented some very unpleasant (historical) offenders in order to portray them as victims, see
" Blind to bestiality and paedophilia: why Naomi Wolf's latest book is its own outrage", Matthew Sweet, Daily Telegraph, 5 February 2021 archived on Internet Archive Wayback Machine https://web.archive.org/web/2021020...-paedophilia-naomi-wolfs-latest-book-outrage/

Outrages was based on her doctoral thesis:

In March 2021, Times Higher Education reported that Wolf's original thesis remained unavailable six years after it was examined. Oxford doctoral graduates can request an embargo of up to three years, with the potential for renewal. The thesis finally became available in April 2021, with nine pages of corrections attached dealing with the misreading of historic criminal records.

In university teaching, Outrages has been used as an example of the danger of misreading historical sources.

Wikipedia as above. In the same article,

On September 7, 2024, Wolf posted to Twitter, "Rev MLK Jr was a convicted felon." ...Wolf's false claim was subsequently "fact-checked into oblivion" by Community Notes.

For example, it's true that Pfizer's post-authorization safety report (covering Dec 2020–Feb 2021) listed 42,086 case reports of adverse events and 1,223 deaths in that period, as pointed out by Wolf.

The overwhelming majority of adverse events reported would have been of a minor, transient nature, some in common with all injections (pain and inflammation at the inoculation site, localised infection) and others in common with many vaccines (e.g. fatigue, achiness, headache, digestive disturbances over a very few days). As a supporting example, a paper referred to in the thread "Study of 18'000'000 in Japan shows delayed dose dependent mortality peak in the vaccinated" (I've added emphasis):

"Association between Adverse Reactions to the First and Second Doses of COVID-19 Vaccine", Ken Goda, Tsuneaki Kenzaka et al., Vaccines 10 (8), 2022, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1341321X22000940,
was based on self-reporting of symptoms by 4,503 healthcare workers vaccinated with the first dose of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, 4,473 of whom received the second dose.
The authors document slightly more and longer-lasting adverse events for the second dose (442 respondents, 9.9%) than for the first dose (595 respondents, 13.2%).

However, all adverse events were essentially trivial (if unpleasant) and short-term.
The most common adverse event, muscular pain, was reported by 90% of respondents; the authors write

...it appears that a direct local reaction is associated with intramuscular injection of the vaccine.

I was going to have some fun with the author's finding that having an IM injection causes muscle pain, but thoroughness isn't bad, and it does give some insight into what might be considered an adverse reaction by the authors- in this case, the unavoidable and wholly expected discomfort from having a 25g needle jabbed into a muscle to deliver 0.3mL of liquid.

Of course, much more serious adverse events occur after the use of vaccines (as they do with use of aspirin and acetaminophen) but they are very rare. Some (e.g. specific thromboembolic effects) only became evident when very large numbers of people had been vaccinated; they are real, and have been studied in depth.

Most nations/ healthcare organisations prioritised the very elderly and those with already compromised health for vaccination, as it was evident from very early in the pandemic that these people were most at risk.
Some of these people will have subsequently died of non-vaccine related causes (and some of those vaccinated would nevertheless die from COVID-19 infection). As @Mendel said, the numbers (used by Wolf) mean nothing without context. Baselines need to be established.

 

[curtispenner]

I like to put the long bits in a spoiler, that keeps them in the post.


I'd agree to that.

That means fewer adverse events than Covid infections? and we know these are far less severe in vaccinated people from the actual data, so that's good.

A 15% miscarriage rate is pretty good.
The point with adverse events is that you need to compare them to a base line. If 2% of the vaccinated population die in the subsequent 12 months, and 2.2% of the unvaccinated people die in the same time, then vaccination looks pretty good. (I made these numbers up.)
You always need to look at the base line, and for miscarriages in the USA, it can be fairly high, so you also need to consider the demographics. Without a clear idea of what's normal, it is easy to scare people.
A good study provides a valid basis for comparison, not just one-sided data.

It was pretty obvious that they thought redacting the personal information out of these 450,000 pages of patient records was a waste of time and money. I agree. The judge did not.


Like I just explained, these numbers mean nothing without context.

Most of what you quoted here was Wolf herself...Landru pointed out that I should have put her transcript in an EX tag to make it clear that these were her words.

Mine are the top before the video and in the summary and exposition on the various claims she made.

I'm going to try editing the original post to put the transcript in a Spoiler presently. It's the really long bit.

 

[MapperGuy]

Too much of the quoted statement in the first posting says to me "paranoia, conspiracy fan, the world is out to get me/us".... that I would essentially dismiss everything this person says, until confirmed by someone NOT in the conspiracy world. Sorry, but first impressions just kill my opinion of some people.

 

[Mendel]

Most of what you quoted here was Wolf herself...

Yes. I'm sorry I didn't make that clear.

It's a really good post, thank you!

 

[JMartJr]

Wolf cites that at least one breastfeeding infant experienced seizures and died after the mother's vaccination

How many experienced seizures before the mother was vaccinated?

 

[curtispenner]

How many experienced seizures before the mother was vaccinated?

This is where she is discussing something she calls the "Pregnancy & Lactation Report" which sounds absolutely horrifying. The way she talks about it, it's as if Dr. Josef Mengele was conducting the trials.

I did a separate thread on this report here:

https://www.metabunk.org/threads/naomi-wolf-and-the-pfizer-pregnancy-and-lactation-report.14604/

 

[curtispenner]

If Wolf said "...at least one", this means she has evidence (as interpreted by her) of one such case.
The assessment of Wolf's claim as

Status: Disputed/Partly true

might depend on us accepting Wolf's account as accurate.

Wolf's ability to accurately interpret and share complex information might be questionable

This is a good point.

Late in her speech she talks for 30 seconds making 10 claims about a real Pregnancy and Lactation report provided by Pfizer to regulators, of which none of those 10 claims were true. So at least in assessing this thirty seconds her baseline of truthfully representing the reported data is highly questionable indeed.