Are we witnessing a proliferation of scientific studies incriminating non-vaccinated people? After an article attributing the cause of the side effects of the anti-covid vaccine “to stress and anxiety caused by the anti-vax movement”, a study, which this time comes from Toronto in Canada, claims that people not vaccinated are… more likely to cause road accidents.
Published in early December in The American Journal Of Medicine, researchers from the Temerty School of Medicine at the University of Toronto and authors of this study explain that “hesitancy to get vaccinated against covid is a reflection of the psychology that could also contribute to road safety”.
These researchers revealed their results, according to which unvaccinated people represented “a 72% increased risk of road accidents” compared to vaccinated people. “The excessive risk of car accidents generated by unvaccinated drivers exceeds the safety gains of advances in modern automotive engineering and also imposes risks on other road users,” it reads.
Temerty – Atlantic Counci – Pfizer
In conclusion, continues this study, “COVID vaccine hesitancy is associated with significant increased risks of road accidents”. The authors explain that they carried out, to arrive at these results, “a longitudinal cohort analysis based on a population of adults (admitted to hospital, editor’s note) and the status of vaccination against COVID” from official government registers.
Like the article attributing the cause of the side effects of the anti-covid vaccine “to the stress and anxiety caused by the anti-vax movement”, this study, which underlines at the end that this “correlation does not mean not a causality”, further aroused the curiosity of its readers.
Several elements also caught their attention, such as its methodology and above all, the proximity of the faculty to pharmaceutical laboratories, in particular Pfizer.
In an article dedicated to this study, the Zero Hedge blog raises several questions and traces the relationship between the Temerty medical school and the American laboratory. Recalling that the Temerty Foundation subsidized the University of Toronto in 2020 to the tune of $250 million, including $10 million allocated to research projects on covid-19, he recalls that its founder James Temerty, also owned a think-tank Atlantic Council, close to the Pfizer laboratory.
Increase in insurance premiums?
The same blog raises several other questions about the methodology. He insists on the inaccessibility of the data to the general public or to other scientists being from government sources, the absence of analysis on the part of peers and above all the target population, in particular those aged 18 to 39, the least exposed to risk of death from covid infection and “statistically” most likely to suffer an accident due to “their inexperience and more reckless behavior”.
The same blog questions in particular the objective of such a study, evoking the hypothesis of an insurance system including non-vaccination as “a major risk which would drive up premiums”.
A hypothesis shared by several Internet users. On Twitter, this study is described in the reactions as “insane”, “ridiculous” or even “propaganda”. Several accuse its authors of “serving an agenda against the non-vaccinated people”, betting on an “increase in the premiums for the non-vaccinated”.