A lesson for anti-vaxxers: don't necessarily trust a pre-print study

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  1. CenterField

    CenterField Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    OK, so anti-vaxxers have been going berserk about this Canadian study that said that the Covid-19 vaccines were causing myocarditis in 1 out of 1,000 recipients. This was a pre-print, non-peer-reviewed study.

    It turns out that the study was wrong, and grossly miscalculated the data, inflating the real rate of myocarditis 25 times!

    The authors have apologized, and they withdrew the study.

    Of course the anti-vaxxers will never acknowledge the retraction; but then, they are not reasonable people to begin with, and facts don't matter to them.

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/study-saying-covid-19-vaccines-171043375.html
     
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    Question: Why won't the powers that be tell us how many people have died from the vaccines or how many people have had serious adverse reactions to the vaccines? Wouldn't it be reasonable to tell Americans the truth about that? Don't those facts matter?
     

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