Welcome back for the final installment of this year’s NewsGuard drive-by. The annual interface between GraniteGrok.com and an establishment censor that uses a rigged, partisan scoring scheme to scare readers away from information the globalists don’t want them to see.
Here are the links to part one, part two, and part 3.
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NewsGuard’s final two questions were much more brief than their predecessors, but if you read the preceding installments, you can sense the disturbance in the force.
4) A November 2025 article, “PAYNE: COVID Vaccine Joins The Cultural Death March,” said that COVID vaccines caused a “collapse in fertility,” stating, “A new study out of the Czech Republic, titled Rates of successful Conceptions According to COVID-19 Vaccination Status, has delivered one of the clearest indictments yet. The study analyzed data from approximately 1.3 million women aged 18-39, comparing successful pregnancies (defined as live births) among women vaccinated before conception with those among unvaccinated women. The findings over the course of two years, women who received a COVID vaccine before conception experienced a 33% lower rate of successful pregnancy compared to their unvaccinated peers. In June 2021, 39% percent of women were vaccinated, yet they accounted for only 7% of all successful births.”
In fact, while the study did find lower rates of successful pregnancies among COVID-vaccinated women, it also stated that its results were “not proof of a causal relationship” with vaccination. Health experts told NewsGuard that the study did not account for other factors besides vaccination that would have impacted the difference in birth rates among COVID-vaccinated and unvaccinated women, including whether the women were trying to get pregnant or were using contraceptives.
Amelia Wesselink, an assistant research professor of epidemiology at the Boston University School of Public Health who has studied COVID vaccination’s impact on fertility, told NewsGuard in a June 30, 2025, email: “You cannot use birth rates to draw conclusions about fecundity [which is the capacity to conceive and carry a pregnancy]. Birth rates do not take into account factors that predict who is at risk of pregnancy, including things like pregnancy intentions and contraceptive use.”
Wesselink added, “In short, the observed differences in birth rates by vaccination status absolutely do not prove a causal connection between COVID-19 vaccination and fertility.”
Similarly, Emory University biostatistics and bioinformatics professor Lance Waller told NewsGuard in a June 28, 2025, email, “Posts to the effect that the study proves a reduction in fertility overstate the authors’ own conclusions and go beyond the authors’ interpretations.”
Moreover, there is abundant scientific evidence that COVID-19 vaccination does not harm fertility. For example, a July 2022 study – which was co-authored by Wesselink, the Boston University professor, and published in the American Journal of Epidemiology – limited its study population to 2,000 couples who were trying to conceive, and concluded, “COVID-19 vaccination does not impair fertility in either partner.”
Does Granite Grok have any comment on this apparently countervailing information and why it was not included in the article?
5) One of our criteria assesses whether a site has effective practices for correcting errors in a transparent manner. In my review, I was unable to find corrections published to staff-written stories in the past 12 months, and I want to make sure I didn’t miss anything. Does your site publish corrections, and if so, would you be able to point me to any corrections that the site has made to staff news stories in the past 12 months that explain what was fixed?
And my response
NewsGuard 4) A November 2025 article, “PAYNE: COVID Vaccine Joins The Cultural Death March,” said that COVID vaccines caused a “collapse in fertility,”
Per my previous rely regarding Mr. Payne, he is an op-ed author and as entitled to leave out the ‘other sides’ facts as they are (and do) without any pretense for a need to provide a correction or addendum. As we like to say, if you disagree, start your own blog.
NewsGuard 5) One of our criteria assesses whether a site has effective practices for correcting errors in a transparent manner. In my review, I was unable to find corrections published to staff-written stories in the past 12 months, and I want to make sure I didn’t miss anything.
You did not miss anything except that we are a news/opinion site. We do not publish for profit. Per our FAQ:
The opinions expressed in op-eds are those of the authors and not GraniteGrok.com, its authors, advertisers, or affiliates. By sharing them, we are not embracing them, endorsing them, or advocating them, their authors, or their content.
We are not doctors, lawyers, or financial advisors, to name a few, so under no circumstances are we offering medical advice, legal advice, investment advice, or any other advice. This is a news and opinion blog. We may report on or discuss research, papers, commentary, and the “expert” or amateur opinion of others, but that is not an endorsement or recommendation of these opinions. That is up to you and the professionals you trust and consult.
No topic, examination, or opinion offered by any individual author or Op-Ed writer is necessarily that of any other author, advertiser, Grok Media, LLC, or GraniteGrok.com.
And as I’ve noted previously, until NewsGaurd rates mainstream and major media with the same requirements (including opposing or contrary evidence as facts), or creates a separate ranking and consideration for websites like ours, while we did choose to respond to this query this year, we don’t think anyone should take any of this seriously,
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NewsGuard’s presumptions, as documented in parts one through three, confirm my closing observation. They arrive with an air of non-partisan professionalism, but then lift their skirt to show you what’s actually underneath. There is no such thing as unbiased or non-partisan news. It rears its head in the stories they choose to cover and those they ignore, the sources they cite or do not, and the editorials and opinion pieces selected for publication, all iced over by a thin patina of self-advertised objectivity.
Democracy doesn’t die in darkness as quickly as the Washington Post dies in daylight. Even our leading local broadsheet, the Union Leader, with its tag line, “There is nothing as powerful as the truth,” lies by omission, when not lying to your face. We can point to the truth about COVID and the response, which continues to be painfully absent from every media outlet in my state, all of whom NewsGuard likley ranks as good to great, certainly more “reliable” than cranky old GraniteGrok when we’ve been embracing ugly, unpleasant truths they ignore, for twenty years.
And we admit to our editorial bias. Our worldview is decidedly smaller government, bigger citizen. Constrain the powers using the Constitution as written, not reimagined. Use the process to change it, not activist courts and judges. Share the opposition’s opinion whenever it proves your point. And never let your revenue streams make editorial decisions for you.
By the way, NewsGuard has something called HealthGuard, which,
helps patients, healthcare workers, and anyone involved in the medical field identify reliable sources of health information. With ratings for more than 3,000 health information sources, HealthGuard provides a solution to the “infodemic” of unreliable health information spreading online.
I bet it does.
