More Attacks on Scientific Integrity

Editor-in-chief targeted for publishing paper on vaccine safety

A 2014 article in a Spanish newspaper called toxicologist and now former editor-in-chief of a highly prestigious toxicology journal, Dr. José Luis Domingo, Ph.D., among the most cited researchers in the world. “El catedrático de Toxicología José Luis Domingo Roig, entre los investigadores más citados del mundo.” Photo credit: https://ebuenasnoticias.com/2014/06/19/jose-luis-domingo-roig/

Three days ago a team of scientists received an email from the editor-in-chief of the prestigious and highly ranked scientific journal, Food and Chemical Toxicology, who had published their paper after three rounds of editing and the unanimous decision of five independent peer-reviewers.

In his email, Dr. José Luis Domingo, Ph.D., explained that in order to maintain his scientific independence and integrity he has essentially been forced to resign.

When I reached him via WhatsApp, Domingo told me he has been at the journal’s helm as editor-in-chief for seven years, and was the managing editor for three years prior.

One of Spain’s preeminent toxicologists, Domingo is 71 years old, still actively teaching and doing research. He is currently a professor emeritus at the Universitat Rovira I Virgili’s School of Medicine in Tarragon, Spain.

The short version of the story is that about a month after his journal published an highly technical, detailed, and thought-provoking scientific paper proposing that mRNA vaccines interfere with a crucial component of the human immune system (type 1 interferon signaling), Domingo found himself being attacked, insulted, and vilified by a faction of pro-vaccine fanatics.

Instead of critiquing the content of the paper itself using sound scientific arguments, this angry faction of pro-vaccine pro-system apologists have resorted to ad hominem attacks, shoddy science, and even politics (quoting President Joseph Biden) in their calls for the paper in question to be retracted.

Indeed, Domingo’s biographical Wikipedia page was sabotaged, as was the page for the journal itself. He is now being denounced on the internet as “anti-vaccine” (which, he told me, is ridiculous for many reasons, not least of which the fact that he himself has had not one, not two, but three COVID-19 vaccines).

In addition, while Domingo’s credentials and experience remain unimpeachable, he has been publicly chastised by establishment industry-sponsored scientists for spreading “deadly disinformation” during a pandemic. (Also an interesting accusation given the fact that 1) Nothing he has allegedly spread is “disinformation” and 2) We are no longer in a pandemic, according to the very same people that these establishment scientists seem to worship as demigods—and some would argue that we never were.)

One email asked: How can you sleep at night, knowing you’re responsible for the deaths of millions of people?

Others called for him to retract the paper and to immediately resign.

Molecular geneticist Dr. Joe Wang, Ph.D., and I have written an article for The Epoch Times detailing the controversy. You can read our article (which is behind a paywall) over there.

Forced to Resign

In the meantime, Dr. Domingo has given me permission to reprint the email he sent to his colleagues. Below please find a slightly edited version of his correspondence (I cleaned up the English and added relevant links):

Dear Drs Stephanie Seneff, Greg Nigh, Anthony Kyrikapoulos, and Peter McCullough:

A few months ago, your paper entitled “Innate immune suppression by SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccinations: The role of G-quadruplexes, exosomes, and MicroRNAs” was accepted for publication. It was published in the journal Food and Chemical Toxicology, for which I was then Editor-in-Chief.

Previously, I had published an editorial calling for papers on the potential adverse effects (with special emphasis in toxicological effects) on the new vaccines for COVID-19.

As I assumed that this was (and it still is) a very sensitive social and scientific topic, I was very careful with the review process of your submission, using 5 reviewers (an unusual number) to make the final decision (Accept).

As a scientist that I am first and foremost, I do not regret having published your Review, but unfortunately since then it has been a headache for me. My name has been object of the harshest criticism including strong language on the Internet.

I have also received unpleasant e-mails of activists pro-vaccination requesting the immediate retraction of your paper, and asking for my resignation as Editor-in-Chief.

I have been ever cataloged as a murderer of potential victims of COVID-19 by having published your paper.

Since I am an experienced person, I invited some of those critics to submit a Letter to the Editor questioning your Review.

However, the submitted Letter was so scientifically poor that, after two rounds of revision, it was rejected.

Since then, the criticisms to my person increased. Even in Wikipedia my page and that of the Journal were negatively modified by the activists pro-vaccination.

This has had a clear repercussion on my role as Editor-in-Chief of Food and Chemical Toxicology.

My current agreement should finish in December 31, 2023, but I requested to extend it one more year in order to reach some pending objectives. The response was NO. The reason: because my time was over after 8 years as EIC of the Journal.

Taking into account that the limit established is 10 years, I am sure which are the real causes to show me the door of exit in the Journal.

In the past, I had also problems in the Journal related with Monsanto, and now, it seems that the BigPharma companies have also done their task. This paper, “Scientific Integrity Requires Publishing Rebuttals and Retracting Problematic Papers,” published on October 26, has been my end.

The "kind suggestions" of the Publisher and her Boss on my Editorial, and particularly the rejected Letter related with your paper, have accelerated my exit of the Journal.

I have resigned. Now, the new EiC will have as priority to "regulate" what can and what cannot be published in Food Chem Toxicol.

*I have an important request to you. Please inform to your colleagues and your social networks and on the Internet what has happened to me for maintaining my scientific independence and not giving in to the claims of the Heads of the journal “Food and Chemical toxicology” who “kindly suggested” publishing the LTE that I rejected [based on the opinions of independent peer-reviewers and my own assessment that it was not scientifically sound.] That is the policy of that Journal. Needless to say more. With the difussion of this, you may help to know the handling and conniving between certain scientific journals and corporate interests.*

Thanks in advance.

Sincerely,
Dr. Jose L. Domingo
Distinguished Professor (Emeritus) of Toxicology and Environmental Health
Universitat Rovira i Virgili, School of Medicine
Sant Llorens 21, 43201 Reus, SPAIN

A Few More Notes

1. Over 1,000 peer-reviewed articles show evidence of harm: There have been well over a thousand peer-reviewed scientific articles published now that call into question the safety and efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccines, in particular those that use mRNA technology.

2. Nearly 1.5 million adverse events reported: As of October 21, the CDC has received 1,447,520 reports of adverse events following the COVID-19 vaccines. Let me write that number out for the people in the back: One MILLION four hundred and forty-seven thousand, five hundred and twenty adverse events have been reported to a passive surveillance system known for under-reporting. These adverse events include 31,696 deaths, 16,232 cases of Bell’s palsy, 10,117 cases of anaphylaxis, and 53,483 reports of myocarditis/pericarditis, to name just a few.

3. Abnormal blood: One peer-reviewed study by Italian microscopists found that 94% of vaccinated patients who had subsequent illness presented with abnormalities in their blood. Japanese cardiovascular surgeon, Dr. Kenji Yamamoto, M.D., has seen so many cases of vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia that he believes, as he wrote in a peer-reviewed letter to the editor, that “as a safety measure, further booster vaccinations should be discontinued. In addition, the date of vaccination and the time since the last vaccination should be recorded in the medical record of [all] patients.” Even the most mainstream pro-vaccine medical doctors, including cardiologist Dr. Aseem Malhotra, M.D., are insisting publicly that we must reappraise this vaccine program because these injections are not safe.
   

   
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   Jennifer Margulis, Ph.D., is an award-winning science journalist, Fulbright grantee, and sought-after speaker. Her work has been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and on the cover of Smithsonian Magazine. Currently a contributing writer at The Epoch Times, she is also the author/editor of eight books. The views expressed in this article are hers alone and do not necessarily reflect those of her employers. Support independent journalism by becoming a paid subscriber to Vibrant Life, which costs less than the price of one cup of coffee a month.