By the World Council For Health

One biostatistician’s 25 years of industry experience. Four-and-a-half years of relentless analysis. And a death that should never have happened.

In December 2020, Christine Cotton was a name on a biostatistics CV: a French researcher few outside the industry knew about.

By June 2, 2026, she was gone.

Between those two dates lies one of the most methodical and quietly devastating analyses ever produced by an industry insider against a licensed vaccine. Cotton didn’t rage or speculate. She ran the numbers: the same way she had for 25 years, 22 of them as CEO of her own clinical research organization.

And the numbers broke her. Not because she misunderstood them. Because she understood them too well — and because the medical system she once trusted did not help when her own body began to fail.

Her final message can be read here. Today, we do what Christine would have wanted: we follow the data.

Who Was Christine Cotton?

Let’s be crystal clear about who we’re dealing with.

Christine Cotton was not an activist. She was not a citizen journalist or a concerned mom with a spreadsheet. She was a clinical research insider who ran a CRO (Clinical Research Organization) for over two decades. Her company designed statistical plans, calculated sample sizes for drug approval trials, and sat on independent data monitoring committees...READ MORE