An Inconvenient Study Wins Malibu Film Festival, Describes Potential Chronic Illness Risk From Vaccines

An Inconvenient Study premiered Sunday at the Malibu Film Festival and was available for streaming later that evening. The film won “Best of Festival” and showcases the results of an unpublishedHenry Ford Health study. The unpublished study examined health outcomes for vaccinated and unvaccinated children, finding the vaccinated cohort had a 2.5 times increased risk of chronic disease, and more than five times higher risk of autoimmune disorders and neurodevelopmental disorders.

Henry Ford Health issued a statement calling the study “flawed” because among other things, it compares different sample sizes for different lengths of time. HFH added, “It’s irresponsible to share scientifically flawed studies with the public.” As the study was not submitted for publication by HFH, it has also not been peer reviewed.

The unpublished study’s results were first revealed during a Senate hearing chaired by Senator Ron Johnson last month.

Responses to the film and the release of the unpublished study have ranged from individuals calling the film “misinformation” and the study “flawed” to people praising the film for sharing the information and starting a conversation about vaccine safety. One viewer praised the film’s balance on Facebook:

“Excellent film. I like that you aren’t trying to make this one study the ‘be all and end all.’ You are honest about its limitations, and you are encouraging continued study. It is hard to deny that this study is pretty powerful. It absolutely needs to be out there for us all to consider. I am so grateful to you and your team for being brave enough to do it. That is not easy. I can have compassion for Zervos in not wanting to be attacked and ostracized. How many of us have remained silent when we could have spoken up? On any issue. We may not think it matters that much compared to a silence that has the potential to significantly impact the lives of millions of people. But if more of us were willing to speak up calmly and rationally and share our thoughts or even just ask questions, how much more could we accomplish? Change comes with the realization that living with the status quo is just as bad or worse than facing the fear. I am trying to be more brave every day. Even if it is just posting something like this on my Facebook page.”

Documentary filmmaker Michael Cernovich said, “I think An Inconvenient Study is an important film on public health, vaccines, and childhood vaccine injuries.”

Professor of Public Health and Preventive Medicine Jeffrey S. Morris said, “The ‘Inconvenient Study’ has multiple ‘Inconvenient Flaws’ that prevent it from supporting that conclusion, or the framing provided by ICAN…” Cernovich responded to Morris, saying he watched the film and Morris is not accurately describing it.

Morris published an article in The Conversation following the Senate hearing to explain why he feels the study is flawed. Morris said the follow-up periods were longer for the vaccinated group and not long enough to catch diagnoses of many health conditions for the unvaccinated group. Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo explained in the film that the authors did a sensitivity analysis to limit the analyses to children who had at least a certain amount of follow-up.

Bigtree explained that according to the unpublished study, the evaluations at one year, three years, and five years all came back with the same results, where vaccinated children had higher rates of chronic illnesses when the sensitivity analysis accounted for the follow-up period. At one-year follow-up, vaccinated children had 2.75 times higher rates, 3.38 times higher at three years, and four times higher after five years of follow-up.

The other primary critique made by George S. Pepper Professor of Public Health & Preventive Medicine, Jeffrey Morris, and others is that unvaccinated kids have fewer health care interactions, and so diagnoses will not be identified at the same rate. Ladapo explains that a sensitivity analysis was made to rule out unvaccinated children who did not have any health care visits, and “the main findings persisted.”

Bigtree and Ladapo explained that retrospective studies will always have limitations, and the only fully reliable study that can be done is a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. That kind of trial has not been conducted because some argue that it is unethical for a child not to have access to or receive a vaccine that protects against an infectious disease.

Morris said he supports rigorous scientific research and inquiry, but says a vaccinated vs unvaccinated study can never be useful or reliable, given the confounding factors and circumstances that exist between these two groups.

“The ‘fully vaccinated vs fully unvaccinated’ trial that people are pushing for are [sic] not as useful as they say — especially in countries with very small % fully unvaccinated,” Morris wrote. “The groups are fundamentally different in almost every way so cannot simply be directly compared, and the small sample sizes in the unvaccinated group make it almost impossible to rigorously adjust for those fundamental differences through matched cohorts or other strong approaches.”

Dr. Ladapo said the authors did everything they could to adjust for confounding factors by utilizing sensitivity analyses, which yielded similar results. He said that it is a good sign.

“The authors did a good job with the information that they had,” Dr. Ladapo said. “I have seen studies on vaccines published in good journals that are much weaker in quality.”

Investigative Journalist Steve Kirsch, who writes frequently about vaccine safety, also wrote a Substack article in response to Morris. Kirsch explains that the study was conducted according to CDC vaccine study guidelines, and they have not suggested a superior study design.

Morris said doctors cannot confidently diagnose chronic pediatric diseases before the age of three, which accounts for 75% of the subjects in the study. Kirsch said, “Many more children are diagnosed <2 years old with a chronic disease, than between 3-8 years old!”

The film is available to stream and download for free at https://www.aninconvenientstudy.com/