Lies, Damn Lies, and Causality
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So, when you read reviews of the sparse literature on methods to remove the healthy vaccinee bias, remember this article on vaccination and traffic crashes. Rel... Read more.
Illusions in Vaccine Effectiveness
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The pseudo-effectiveness of Covid vaccines against death from unrelated causes is not a new observation. The same kind of pseudo-effectiveness was discovered lo... Read more.
The Nursing Home Paradox
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The inference from the lengthy paper is the opposite of what many would have thought: the greater the mitigation efforts in US nursing homes, the higher the dea... Read more.
Data Betrayed the Supposed ‘Apocalypse’
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Like everyone, I have been following the news from the Far East since the beginning of the year. Although infectious diseases were not my subject matter researc... Read more.
Healthy Vaccinee Bias: Letter to the Editor of The Lancet Regional Health – Europe
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I could have submitted this letter to you, as usually done, and published it here, if rejected. However, I had tried to submit letters three times before and de... Read more.
Get a New Covid Shot? The Evidence Suggests Otherwise
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Taking a new Covid shot every winter has no empirical basis. The burden of proving effectiveness against death squarely rests on public health officials and any... Read more.
A True Account of Covid in Israel
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An American journalist once wrote that unaccounted excess deaths were related to “the circumstances of the pandemic." These circumstances have been created by... Read more.
“Vaccinated” Sweden: A Response to a Brainwashed Critic
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When I saw on my Excel file that the Covid mortality ratio — Sweden versus Israel — during the winter wave of 2020–2021 was identical to the usual ratio, ... Read more.
How a Highly Effective Vaccine Turns Into a Mediocre Vaccine — or Worse
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The implication of the “healthy vaccinee” phenomenon — when estimating vaccine effectiveness — is called confounding bias. A naïve comparison of Covid ... Read more.
The Bias that Creates the Illusion of an Effective Covid Vaccine
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How could Covid vaccines have been highly effective in the frail and elderly? They were not. To understand why, we have to struggle with complicated biases in o... Read more.
Thousands of Averted Covid Deaths in Israel: Science Fiction
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Lockdowns were futile and detrimental, mask mandates were futile, Covid vaccines were marginally beneficial, futile, or worse, and influential studies of vaccin... Read more.
Downplaying the Adverse Effects of Boosters
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Downplaying. That has been a handy weapon against anything that threatened the official Covid narrative. Downplaying skeptical voices, downplaying uncertainties... Read more.