Medical Hypotheses is a fringe journal published by Elsevier that's long been known for publishing pseudoscience, such as antivax and #HIV/#AIDS denial. In the age of the #COVID19 #pandemic, it's now back with antimask nonsense.https://respectfulinsolence.com/2021/04/21/medical-hypotheses-is-back-and-its-pushing-antimask-disinformation/ …
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Replying to @gorskon
They recently published a paper hypothesising that COVID-19 deaths were due to sunspot activity
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In the meantime, here's the latest antivax narrative about
#CovidVaccine, that there are so many reports of death in#VAERS compared to past years.
http://www.virginiastoner.com/writing/2021/4/19/death-and-the-covid-19-vaccines …3 replies 0 retweets 14 likes -
Replying to @gorskon
"I'm not a statistics expert by any means" understatement of the year
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Replying to @GidMK
I helpfully gave her a hint in the comments of a post by
@oracknows that she showed up in. (She's "NWO Reporter.")https://respectfulinsolence.com/2021/04/19/antivaxxers-dont-want-covid-19-vaccines-to-impurify-their-purity-of-essence/ …1 reply 0 retweets 7 likes -
Anyway, I think the science-based community is going to have to refute this nonsense, because it's bubbling up and appears on the verge of going viral. Probably not this post, but I'm sure it'll be promoted by RFK Jr. or Del Bigtree before too long (if it hasn't already).
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Replying to @gorskon @oracknows
It's so depressing. Reporting systems are important, but for disingenuous cranks also so easy to misuse
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Replying to @GidMK @oracknows
The antivax distortion that there are "48 times higher than in any other year in VAERS history" is definitely a new talking point that's going to need a rebuttal. I just don't have time to do it today.
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Replying to @gorskon @oracknows
Even if true, it's a complete misunderstanding. We usually mostly vaccinate children, who rarely die of anything, but we are now vaccinating mostly older adults, who die a lot more often
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We would EXPECT the reporting rate of events to go up because elderly people die a lot more than 5 year olds (at least in the US), so comparing to past years rather than the baseline risk of an event in the population is a basic mistake
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Replying to @GidMK @oracknows
Indeed. I might have to look up the actual number. I bet it's way more than 48-fold higher, depending on the age group...
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Replying to @gorskon @oracknows
According to the U.S. life tables, the probability of dying between age 10-11 is 200x lower than the probability of dying between age 70-71 https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr68/nvsr68_07-508.pdf …
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