15/03/2026
🇬🇧🇺🇸🇨🇦🇮🇪🇦🇺🇳🇿🇿🇦 Sweden’s second-largest daily newspaper, Svenska Dagbladet, is getting worse and worse in its embarrassing witch-hunt against researchers who wish to seriously evaluate the effects of vaccines. Now it is the Danish professor of global health, Christine Stabell Benn, who is being vilified. The journalist attempts to portray the professor as conducting research in a colonial spirit and exploiting poor children in Africa. This is a completely absurd claim for anyone familiar with Stabell Benn’s truly groundbreaking research.
Headline and lead:
”Experiments on babies are a scandal.
A Danish couple, both professors, received support from the Trump administration to identify “non-specific vaccine effects” in children in Guinea-Bissau. The project reeks of colonialism.”
Stabell Benn, together with her research colleague Peter Aaby, has conducted vaccine research on children in Guinea-Bissau. They have used the most reliable outcome measure of all, namely the results for overall mortality and harm. Instead, the outcome of the treatment’s objective is often used — for example, in vaccination, to reduce serious illness from a specific infectious disease, or how much keyhole surgery for an infected appendix shortens the recovery time after the operation. But let us say that keyhole surgery results in a shorter recovery period than open surgery for an infected appendix, yet more of the patients whose appendix was removed via keyhole surgery died; in that case, keyhole surgery for appendicitis is naturally not a suitable method.
Research by Stabell Benn and Aaby has shown that live-attenuated vaccines reduce both mortality and morbidity, whilst inactivated vaccines have the opposite effect.
The SvD article seeks to suggest that the two researchers’ new study on the hepatitis B vaccine is deeply unethical. This is obviously not the case, and the author of the article should instead question why the researchers received research funding for this study from the CDC in the US, and why the deeply compromised WHO – which does not have a doctor as its chair and has fewer and fewer doctors and medical researchers in its leadership team – has reached a different conclusion. Does the WHO not want the effects of vaccines to be scientifically evaluated?
KRÖNIKA. Ett danskt professorspar fick Trumpadministrationens stöd för att hitta ”ospecifika vaccineffekter” hos barn i Guinea-Bissau. Projektet osar kolonialanda.