Christine Cotton : « On a des risques qui sont parfaitement documentés ! » #COVID19

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📅 2023-07-16🎙️ Les Incorrectibles (host)📺 LES INCORRECTIBLES⏱ 54 min

“We have risks that are perfectly documented in the laboratories' own files — Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca. A whistleblower is someone who warns of risks. That is exactly what I am doing.”

Key statements

Conspiracy Watch describes Cotton's book as anti-vaccination propaganda. Cotton's response: "What interests me is who is paying them?" The site was revealed during a Senate hearing on the Marianne Fund to receive up to 50% public subsidies — so dismissing Cotton's work is publicly subsidized. ▶ 20:08
Sources: Senate hearing on the Fonds Marianne (2023)
After she posted her expertise on LinkedIn to ask peer comment, the account lasted two days. LinkedIn censored the post, she reposted it, they suspended the account. She has since asked to recover it; they refuse. ▶ 22:43
Sources: Cotton — January 2022 expertise report (LinkedIn post)
From January 2021 Cotton saw the problem: no statistically demonstrated efficacy on severe cases, no demonstrated efficacy on adults over 75, only three-month interim analyses — so tolerability could only be claimed over a very short window. ▶ 25:46
Sources: Pfizer C4591001 interim clinical study report (Dec 2020)
Cotton calls for an audit of every participating trial center: the methodology shows major biases and serious failures that invalidate the conclusions. The audit will determine whether this is deliberate scientific fraud or a chain of malfortunate circumstances tied to the urgency. ▶ 26:15
Sources: Cotton — Expertise of the Pfizer C4591001 trial (January 2022)
Cotton defines a whistleblower as someone who warns the population of potential risks. The risks she names are documented in the laboratories' own files — Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca — not just mRNA. She has alerted the OPECST and other authorities; in her book she mentions other things she has never made public. ▶ 28:39
Sources: Cotton — Expertise of the Pfizer C4591001 trial (January 2022); OPECST hearing of Christine Cotton (April 2022)
After a worrying phone call and the harassment campaign Cotton observed on her LinkedIn profile, she hired a bodyguard ("a guardian angel") for five months. ▶ 30:49
1.2 million adverse-event reports are filed on the EMA database. Doctors under-report — sometimes because they have no time, sometimes because they decide there's no link. "Even if it were only 10 cases, would that be a reason not to take them in charge?" ▶ 34:15
Sources: EudraVigilance (EMA adverse-event database)
Cotton's political supporters at the time: MEP Michèle Rivasi (who co-wrote the book's preface with senator Laurence Muller-Bronn), MEP Virginie Joron, and Nicolas Dupont-Aignan. Cotton: "Today I was with Nicolas Dupont-Aignan… he says the book is very instructive and people should read it." ▶ 39:23
Sources: Cotton — Tous vaccinés, tous protégés (book preface)
On the Raoult / hydroxychloroquine case Cotton declines to take a position because she has not re-run his analyses. But she points out the asymmetry: the ANSM refused Raoult a temporary use authorization (ATU / RTU) — a mechanism created after the Mediator scandal precisely to let an existing approved product be tested in a new indication without a full clinical trial. "Why not raid Pfizer instead?" ▶ 45:37
Sources: ANSM ATU / RTU regulatory framework; Mediator affair regulatory aftermath
Cotton: "As long as we let experts who are not experts come and lecture people whose ankle they don't reach, we get nowhere." She points to Karine Lacombe, who replied to a Cotton tweet asking about a colloquium on vaccine adverse events with "don't come pollute my feed with your fantasies." Cotton: "My fantasies are seeing harassers and the corrupt in the dock." ▶ 51:58

Documents cited

Cotton — Expertise of the Pfizer C4591001 trial (January 2022) — christinecotton.com
Pfizer C4591001 interim clinical study report (December 2020) — FDA briefing documents, Dec 2020 VRBPAC
EudraVigilance (EMA) — adverse-event database — adrreports.eu
OPECST hearing of Christine Cotton (April 2022) — Assemblée nationale / Sénat OPECST
Cotton — Tous vaccinés, tous protégés (Guy Trédaniel, 2023) — book preface by Michèle Rivasi and Laurence Muller-Bronn — Guy Trédaniel
ANSM ATU / RTU framework (post-Mediator) — ansm.sante.fr
Senate hearing on the Fonds Marianne (2023) — Conspiracy Watch funding disclosure — Sénat — committee record

Research follow-ups

Document the LinkedIn account suspension: timeline (post date, censorship, second post, suspension), the visit log Cotton describes (US State Dept., WHO, French ministries, etc.), and any correspondence with LinkedIn requesting reinstatement.Cotton mentions the visits in this interview at 22:43 and details them more fully in the Cercle Aristote interview — a flagship example of the institutional response to her report.
Cross-reference the OPECST (April 2022) and ANSM (July 2022) hearing records with this interview's discussion of Cotton's whistleblower role — both are referenced as the formal channels through which she alerted French authorities.Cited at 28:39 — Cotton mentions OPECST as part of her whistleblower channel.
Sources she cites in the book
Find the Senate hearing record on the Fonds Marianne where Conspiracy Watch's public-subsidy share (~50%) was disclosed. Useful for the Critiques / About-this-Archive page.Cited at 21:00 — Cotton uses this to support her counter-attack against the fact-checking establishment.
Document the ANSM's refusal of Raoult's ATU / RTU request for hydroxychloroquine. Cotton's argument is that the post-Mediator ATU/RTU framework was designed precisely for this kind of off-label use — locate the ANSM written response and the legal record.Cotton makes this point at 47:36 — useful for cross-linking the Cotton archive to the broader controversy over French regulatory consistency.

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