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Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him

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    1. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jun 27

      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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    2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jun 27

      13/n Vaccine event reporting systems are geared to identifying potential signals for alarm, and so usually anyone can report any event THAT HAPPENS AFTER VACCINATION to them

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    3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jun 27

      14/n In other words, these are events FOLLOWING vaccination, not events CAUSED BY vaccination The website of the system even says this ~explicitly~pic.twitter.com/reRJm0N2JN

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    4. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jun 27

      15/n So while the Israeli study was an attempt to causally link vaccination with outcomes, the Dutch registry explicitly does not do this The deaths in this system may have nothing to do with the immunizations at all

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    5. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jun 27

      16/n Using reporting systems like this is a common anti-vaccine trope. We KNOW that many of the events in the reporting system ARE NOT LINKED TO VACCINATION because we investigate them carefully

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    6. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jun 27

      17/n Because of this, we have two awful, useless numbers being compared to each other. The true rate of deaths CAUSED by vaccines is 100sx lower than this paper calculates, and the number of deaths PREVENTED is 100sx higher

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    7. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jun 27

      18/n Taking the highest death rate seen caused by a vaccine so far - Astrazeneca - we'd get around 1 death per 500,000 vaccinations Using an NNTV assuming a 30% population prevalence, we'd get 1 life saved per ~500 vaccinations

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    8. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jun 27

      19/n Now, neither of these metrics are necessarily useful in this way, and people will yell at me for doing this (rightly, it's a bit silly), but EVEN USING THIS FLAWED RUBRIC vaccines save 1,000x more lives than they cost

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    9. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jun 27

      20/n Anyway, this study is flawed in so many basic ways that it's pretty irretrievable. It should be retracted as soon as possible to avoid further damage

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      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jun 28
      Replying to @Akuma_fh

      Retraction is not covering up - in fact, retracted papers are still available online with a notice saying why they have been retracted

      4:56 PM - 28 Jun 2021
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        1. Elia Bennis‏ @eliabennis Jun 30
          Replying to @GidMK @Akuma_fh

          This is disingenuous — pretending to “debunk” a peer-reviewed paper and then publicly calling for its retraction in order to banish it under the banner of “RETRACTED” — rather than calling for a critical review — is a form of censorship.

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