EMA Covid-19 data leak and mRNA vaccine instability (opens in new tab)

(bmj.com)

19 pointszerealshadowban5y ago5 comments

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karlshea5y ago· 3 in thread

This is the second link I’ve seen recently to this website, and it’s pretty dumb that Wikipedia is required to find out what “BMJ” stands for or who they are. It’s literally not on their site. (And yes, I’ve heard of “The British Medical Journal” but there’s Chinese in the footer, so “Beijing Medical Journal” also fits. I guess you just have to know already like you do with KFC)

systoll5y ago

Officially, BMJ is just BMJ, and doesn't stand for British Medical Journal (anymore). See https://www.bmj.com/company/bmj-resources/brand-guidelines/

That said, it is rather bold of them to start their 'about us' page with 'Who we are, and what we stand for'... and then not say what the B M and J stood for.

whizzter5y ago

That's just such lazy chinamongering, a 3 second Google gives you a pointer to that Chinese ICP thing being some crap seemingly related to the great firewall so probably they fell afoul of some censorship crap and had to obtain a licence to continue operating there. (And google would've shown that that BMJ still seems to be headquartered in London).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICP_license

karlshea5y ago

“Chinamongering” lol okay bud. Hate to break it to you but not everyone lives in the world you think they do.

Google2345y ago

Very interesting info. It doesn’t seem too surprising that there might have been some consistency issue with manufacturing early on. Though it seems a little late to be trying to spread misinformation about the Pyzer vaccine. A manipulated leak like this could have done a lot of harm a few months ago though.

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