Unmasked: Vaccine Safety Signals

Email from Dr. Scott Sturman, USAFA ’72:

Ron, several weeks ago you distributed an email regarding VAERS, where one of the participants discounted the reliability of VAERS, despite the extraordinary number of adverse events.

Anecdotally, by 2021 we were aware of unusual, serious adverse effects due to Covid mRNA vaccines, but the FDA denied that significant safety signals were absent.

Other than a pathological lack of curiosity, the agency used an outdated form of statistical analysis that masked these adverse effects and covertly engaged in methods to block the implementation of statistical analysis that prevents data masking.

Open the below link and select “Explainer.”

Also see below an email exchange between STARRS President Ron Scott and someone who has pushed back against this.

FROM: VSafetySignals.com

A structured presentation of the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations’ April 2026 interim report and the underlying records published with it. The site centers the evidence: contemporaneous emails, the masking phenomenon in VAERS data mining, and the MGPS / RGPS comparison that drives the story.

Key Points

The FDA’s vaccine safety monitoring system has a known flaw called “masking.” When similar products dominate the database, real warning signs can get hidden.
This happened with the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines (Pfizer and Moderna), where masking was roughly eight times more likely than with other vaccines.[20]
A senior FDA scientist, Dr. Ana Szarfman, applied a better method (RGPS) and found hidden safety signals, including sudden cardiac death, Bell’s palsy, heart attacks, blood clots, and dementia.[2], [5]
When she reported these findings to FDA leadership in 2021, she was told to cease and desist out of concern her work could fuel anti-vaccine sentiment.[9]
The FDA never adopted the improved method, and the routine weekly COVID-19 vaccine data-mining reports were discontinued in July 2022 — around the same time outside groups were filing public records requests for them.[61]

Footnote numbers throughout this site match the footnote numbers in the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations’ April 29, 2026 interim report. Read the full report (PDF) →

Unmasked: How Biden Health Officials Purposely Turned a Blind Eye Toward COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Signals
U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
Chairman Ron Johnson, Majority Staff Interim Report

Resistance to the evidence continues, Here is an email exchange on Memorial Day:

XXX,

You have a solid (impressive) background–one that I sincerely respect (and admire), which is why I keep asking about your grasp of things.

I also respect others for their background/experience/expertise. This is why you will find over 40 experts on the STARRS advisory board, including, the Surgeon General of the AF–Lt Gen (AF, Ret, Dr.) PK Carlton.

Yesterday, I asked about the VAERS concern and General Carlton responded: “I know XXX, he is a reasonable person.” Here is an excerpt (shared with permission):

Ron, XXX has a point! VAERS is designed to detect a problem, which then gets properly investigated to determine the root cause. Once a signal is detected, then a proper evaluation should have ensued- that did not happen! The complications of the shot were catastrophic and are continuing! The lack of an honest investigation should be treated as a crime! . . ..
PK

I infer from your mention of STARRS that you do not appreciate or respect what STARRS has been called to do. Knowing the Marxist background of the Black Lives Matter movement, we simply began by attempting to get the July 7, 2020, football coach video taken down.

Like the unfolding of a legal matter, “discovery” was pretty shocking as we learned more about Critical Race Theory and its praxis Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. As STARRS became more public and branded, service members reached out to us about the COVID EUA vax. After lengthy debate we agreed the approach was radical and elected to engage (all pro bono).

We’re still at it. We also know that some people (including close friends and peers) consider us “controversial.” Why? Because we “bear true faith and allegiance” to the Constitution and the American Creed (based on the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights)?

Unlike your seatbelt example, VAERS is a better analogy. People in responsible positions either ignored or hid its signals. There are plenty of signals regarding radicalism in America–a threat to a culture based on the American Creed. STARRS has been evaluating these signals (including EUA vax mandates illegally implemented to ensure compliance) and the similar pattern to Germany’s Gleichschaltung (recognized by a black BG USAFA grad) in the 1930s (for evidence see here and here).

It is fortuitous that today is Memorial Day. America is experiencing an existential crisis characterized by two “pro-America” factions: one based on the American Creed defined by our founding documents (and the one so many good, patriotic Americas died for); the other based on an imagined future America inspired by a Marxist utopia. Political economist Joseph Schumpeter recognized this development. Here is a passage from his 1950 book, Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy:

In one important sense, Marxism is a religion. To the believer it presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life and are absolute standards by which to judge events and actions; and, secondly, a guide to those ends which implies a plan of salvation and the indication of the evil from which mankind, or a chosen section of mankind, is to be saved.

We may specify still further: Marxist socialism also belongs to that subgroup which promises paradise on this side of the grave. The religious quality of Marxism also explains a characteristic attitude of the orthodox Marxist toward opponents. To him, as to any believer in a Faith, the opponent is not merely in error but in sin. Dissent is disapproved of not only intellectually but morally. There cannot be any excuse for it once the Message has been revealed (p. 5).

Using Bayesian logic, STARRS represents the first “pro-America” faction, which makes us controversial to those aligned (wittingly or not) with the other faction.

Like the VAERS example, too many Americans ignore or hide this cultural revolution. Some are simply unaware of the phenomenon.

This is an important conversation, XXX, and you are a life-long friend. I hope we can keep this conversation going.

Cheers,
Ron