The Pfizer Papers

Weighing in at 1.25 kilograms, with a girth larger than a page of A4, this mighty tome aims to punch the lights out of drug giant Pfizer, the company which made a reported $35 billion from selling vaccines during the Covid scare.

The book is a compendium of articles that appeared on "The Daily Clout", a website run by US journalist Naomi Woolf and project manager Amy Kelly. Towards the middle of the Covid debacle, they began publishing stories on the safety and efficacy of the vaccines distributed internationally to combat the perceived global health threat.

Most of the chapters are analyses of Pfizer's research data obtained before and during their vaccine roll-out. But that data was very hard won. Initially, Pfizer refused to disclose them, saying it would be too onerous a task - a claim surprisingly supported by the FDA, the US health agency. When pressed in the courtroom, however, Pfizer and the FDA agreed to release the data, but only on the basis of a 75-year moratorium. Rightly, the court dismissed the request, ordering Pfizer immediately to begin releasing 55,000 pages per month, until the entire database of 450,000 pages was finally made public.

As soon as the pages appeared, copies were obtained by Naomi Woolf, hoping that the Pfizer data would be an investigative journalist's treasure trove. However, one look at the papers told her she would be out of her depth. "In order to understand the reports, one would need a background in immunology, statistics, biostatistics, pathology, oncology, obstetrics, neurology, cardiology, pharmacology, cellular biology, chemistry, [and] government and industry regulatory processes", she writes. So she appealed online for experts to help her decipher the documents. Astonishingly, she was "deluged with offers from around the world [supported by] thousands of CVs." In all, she recruited 3,250 experts in various fields, and put them to work. By the time of publication, they had produced nearly 100 reports analysing 2,369 documents.

The book's most sensational discovery is that, months before the vaccine roll-out, Pfizer already knew that its products were causing serious side-effects. During a double-blind placebo controlled study on over 40,000 volunteers in mid-2020, 285 'adverse events' were reported, including "heart, liver and neurological disease, cancers and deaths," says Woolf. Although these were reported to the FDA that November, the agency appeared to ignore them, declaring that the trial as a whole had demonstrated efficacy, and that Emergency Use Authorisation would be granted. This allowed Pfizer to unblind the study and offer the vaccine to the 20,000 volunteers in the control group, thus scuppering the trial's ability to detect the product's long-term adverse health effects. Worse still, Wolf's professional analysts spotted that Pfizer "stopped collecting data on the control group soon after the trial began."

Such astonishing revelations of fraudulent science being used to justify the vaccine roll-out would have been a stunning curtain-raiser to the book, but oddly the reader has to wait until Chapter 8 to learn of them. Somewhat confusingly, the same issue is also covered in Chapter 19, entitled "Pfizer knew by November 2020 that its mRNA vaccine was neither safe nor effective." Indeed, the raw data show that 35,000 injections were needed to save a mere 150 cases of Covid-19. As the book rightly points out, this was "not practical for a public health intervention" - particularly on healthy individuals, one might add.

Also confusing is the book's seemingly random chapter order. Chapter 1 deals with the adverse liver events found by Pfizer in post-marketing studies, revealing serious inadequacies with the methodology. Chapter 2 is a report by Dr Robert Chandler on the Covid vaccines' effect on fertility. Using publicly available global data, he finds a correlation between jab uptake and declining birth rates in 22 countries. Chapter 3 reverts to the disclosed Pfizer post-marketing data during the first two months of international roll-out, showing that the jab was associated with a 10% fatality rate, as well as serious cardiovascular sequelae, often occurring with 24 hours of injection. Chapter 4 looks at Pfizer's early data on children, once again revealing a significant number of adverse effects.

Changing tack, chapter 5 is an almost verbatim transcript of an illustrated lecture by German pathologist, the late Dr Arne Burkhardt (1944-2023). Distrustful of the official autopsies, he performed post-mortems on 30 individuals whose relatives suspected their deaths were linked to the Pfizer jab. Using histological staining techniques too costly for routine autopsies, Burkhardt reported finding clear evidence that the spike proteins within the Covid vaccines had created "autoimmune-like pathology in multiple organs", including blood vessels, heart, brain, spleen, liver and lung. Some of these lesions were previously unknown to pathology, says Burkhardt.

Returning to the Pfizer jab data, Chapter 6 examines the neurological side effects discovered during post-marketing surveillance. By February 2021 (i.e a few months after the roll-out), Pfizer noted 500 cases of "serious" neurological events, including multiple sclerosis, transverse myelitis and Guillan-Barre syndrome. However, the book does not tell us what proportion of the jabbed cohort was afflicted. Chapter 7 revisits the work of Arne Burkhardt, who was intrigued by what he called SAD - Sudden Adult Death - occurring shortly after vaccination. Again, reprinting his lecture colour slides, the book shows that many of these deaths were associated with post-mortem evidence of aortic dissection, arterial fibrous clots or myocarditis.

Another transcribed Burkhardt lecture is printed in Chapter 27 - once again, illustrated by high quality colour photos of tissue samples. He and an international team of pathologists examined the corpses of 75 people, most of whom had died soon after being jabbed. The most startling finding was that the spike protein - the key antigenic ingredient of the Pfizer jabs - had spread throughout the cadavers, affecting brain, aorta, spleen, prostate, heart, ovaries and testes - in fact "almost all organs, more or less", says Burkhardt. This is in marked contrast to conventional vaccines, whose contents remain in the arm muscle. His team concluded that 77% of the deaths examined were "probably" caused by vaccination.

Another transcribed lecture is found in Chapter 10. Dr Ute Kruger, a pathologist specialising in breast cancer, is routinely sent tissue samples for microscopic analysis. Six months after the vaccine rollout, she noticed an uptick in the number of samples sent in, which followed an unusual pattern: there were many more samples from younger women, with more "aggressive" and larger tumours, and more "multi-focal tumour growth". Her own histology slides show evidence that the growths are "highly proliferative".

The remainder of the book's thirty-four chapters are analyses of individual Pfizer post-marketing reports, often revealing serious adverse events following the Pfizer jab, such as myocarditis, kidney problems, teratogenicity, and "cardiovascular deaths".

Nevertheless, Pfizer concludes every one of its reports with the statement: "This does not raise new safety issues. Surveillance will continue" - a blatantly self-serving judgment apparently taken on trust by the FDA, the regulatory agency. It is precisely this kind of cosy relationship between Big Pharma and the government authorities that Robert Kennedy Jr is expected to shake up in his new role as US health tsar.

Despite its title, the book's value really lies in the high-quality colour pictures of the autopsy slides (printed on china clay paper - hence the book's weight). For, perhaps unsurprisingly, such images are exceptionally rare. A February 2025 paper by Dr Jessica Rose reports that, as soon as the vaccines were rolled out in the USA, monthly autopsy rates plummeted, suggesting that there was a general reluctance to investigate sudden or unusual deaths - for fear of what might be discovered, perhaps? In all, the book is a useful historical document to add to the already considerable literature questioning the authorities' handling of the Covid panic.