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Surgeon/scientist promoting science in medicine and exposing quackery. Editor of Science-Based Medicine. My opinions do NOT represent those of my employers.

Michigan, USA
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    1. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Jan 2

      I told you this would happen. I told you that when large numbers of elderly people started getting #covidvacccine, there would be deaths, almost certainly coincidental, and that antivaxxers would try to blame the vaccine before there was any evidence that it wasn't coincidence.pic.twitter.com/Nf1x3WpbCr

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    2. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Jan 2

      David Gorski, MD, PhD Retweeted Jonathan Howard

      Here's what I mean...https://twitter.com/JHowardBrainMD/status/1345450464385576963?s=20 …

      David Gorski, MD, PhD added,

      Jonathan Howard @JHowardBrainMD
      Replying to @gorskon
      I forgot who made this sadly. pic.twitter.com/IUUGHwBdNB
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    3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Jan 2

      During any given period, by random chance alone, a lot of people will die. Most of them will be older because older people are closer to the end of their life expectancies (and often have serious comorbidities). They're far more likely to die during a given period than the young.

      5 replies 10 retweets 91 likes
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    4. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Jan 2

      Antivaxxers will take advantage of those simple facts to portray *any* death (other than perhaps due to trauma) that occurs within a week or two of vaccination with #covidvacccine as the vaccine having killed the person when that will almost certainly not be the case.

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    5. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Jan 2

      Yet, anyone familiar with the law of large numbers will realize that, if you administer millions of doses of vaccines, by random chance alone there will be bad things that happen, and even deaths, seemingly soon after the dose.

      4 replies 12 retweets 72 likes
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      David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Jan 2

      It takes careful epidemiology to sort out whether these heart attacks, deaths, etc. are likely to be due to random chance alone or whether there is a signal there indicating correlation that might mean causation. Anecdotes tell us nothing on that score.

      11:33 AM - 2 Jan 2021
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        1. Arthur Foxache‏ @OldMackIsBack Jan 2
          Replying to @gorskon

          Not even anecdotes though... tens of thousands of clinical trial data points also show is that.

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        1. Helen Tea  😊 🌸‏ @HelenTeaPot Jan 2
          Replying to @gorskon

          So true. And the same careful science is needed on the matter of "long covid" anecdotes.

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        2. Jamie Mueller‏ @JamieGeek Jan 2
          Replying to @gorskon

          Well there was that one guy in one of the studies that got struck by lightning after getting the shot soooo...https://metro.co.uk/2020/12/18/covid-vaccine-volunteer-struck-by-lightning-after-moderna-injection-13774498/ …

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        3. Mark Walchle‏ @mwalchle1 Jan 2
          Replying to @JamieGeek @gorskon

          Hmmm, same story you hear about some deaths being classified as COVID deaths.

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        1.  🎶 Pam  🎶‏ @waalien Jan 2
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          The plural of anecdotes is not data.

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        1. Aurelia Cotta‏ @AureliaCotta Jan 2
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          I think careful autopsies of anyone at any age can tell us a lot about that. I mean, many cancers are slow-growing. This isn’t hard to explain to people

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        1. R. Willemann‏ @WillemannR Jan 2
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          Thank you doctor for your persistence on the side of the angels.

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