The mystery of what the Berlin doctors treating Alexei Navalny discovered in his bloodstream and urine tests in Germany has deepened after the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov publicly referred last week to the clinical findings of a Basel University Hospital neurologist, Vitaly Kozak. Kozak has been reporting for several weeks that the biomedical data tables published in
The Lancet in December reveal evidence of
cholinesterase inhibition effects of poisoning by the drug lithium which Navalny was taking himself before his collapse on August 20.
That's pathological self-medication - an overdose, not a Kremlin poison plot.
What then can be the reason the editors of
The Lancet, Richard Horton (lead image, 1
st left) and Astrid James (2
nd left), have refused to publish a clinical commentary in the form of questions from Kozak?
There's more to the mystery than that. Horton and James also refuse to answer questions about the circumstances of their publication of Navalny's data records separately from the case report authored by Navalny's chief treating doctors in Berlin, Kai-Uwe Eckardt (right) and David Steindl.
Eckardt and Steindl have now been asked to clarify the circumstances of the publication of their case report on Navalny and the separate biomedical data. They do not answer. Because of the
contradiction between the evidence in their data records and the interpretation widely given to their case report in the press and by NATO officials,
Eckardt and Steindl were asked to say if the title of the report they wrote, "Novichok nerve agent poisoning", was their choice of title, or The Lancet's in London. Eckardt and Steindl will not say.
Comment: Isn't it suspicious that, elsewhere in the world, coercing citizens into taking these experimental vaccines and mandating they carry ID cards - often associated with totalitarian states - is not deemed necessary? Why are some countries so eager to implement what would be considered tyrannical policies?