12/n On the other side, the paper uses a vaccine adverse event reporting system to estimate the number of deaths 'caused' by the vaccine This is absolute gibberish and a basic misunderstanding of epidemiologypic.twitter.com/XsqT5JBBNY
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23/n also as a couple of people have pointed out, this tweet is incorrect. I mixed up the ARR of disease prevention with death, in actuality the ARR would approach the death rate in the population x 0.84 - in most places this would be about 1 per 100/200https://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1409293104063029252?s=19 …
24/n Oh, and because it always comes up in these discussions, I've never been paid a cent by any pharmaceutical company, all of my funding is through the Australian state and federal governments, the only additional income I get is from writing locked posts on Medium
25/n There is now an expression of concern published by the journal about the paperhttps://www.mdpi.com/2076-393X/9/7/705 …
26/n An interesting point about this paper is that it's actually a perfect example of how peer-review can fail. The people who reviewed the article assumed that the stats and methodology were reasonable, and based on that assumption recommended that it be published
27/n This is a prime example of what @jamesheathers and I wrote about recently - the study got through peer review, may be retracted, but the damage has already very much been donehttps://www.statnews.com/2021/06/08/scientific-publishing-new-weapon-for-the-next-crisis-the-rapid-correction/ …
At least 3 by my count, Ewer, Krammer, and Harper.
I didn't see Harper?
This is no surprise. One author's affiliated without the "Uni Witten-Herdecke", a private University (rare in Germany) that is rooted in anthroposophy. They still even teach it. 1/https://www.uni-wh.de/studium/studiengaenge/ibap-begleitstudium-psychologie/ …
In 2020 they established an online database to capture experiences regarding mask wearing in children. This was an open web questionnaire and was widely shared in anti-corona telegram channels but not in the general public. 2https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00112-021-01133-9 …
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