A retracted study claiming the COVID vaccine killed 300,000 Americans has been republished in an anti-vaccine journal, but it's still weak.
Over the weekend, as I pondered a volume of forgotten lore — it was Emily Wilson's gripping translation of Homer's 'Odyssey,' actually — my email inbox started filling up with the curious news that a long-discredited and retracted paper claiming that the COVID vaccines had killed nearly 300,000 Americans had been 'reinstated.' It did not take long to determine that the truth was, no, not really.
is maintained by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which warns explicitly that it's not suitable for that purpose. That’s because it’s a repository of entirely voluntary reports that can be filed by anyone, including but not limited to doctors, patients and family members, who aren’t required to document the injury. “
does not mean the vaccine caused the event.” When serious vaccine scientists see is a popular source for anti-vaccine claims of all sorts, especially about the COVID shots. As I observed before, there are few fields in which flawed scientific research has been weaponized as much as in studies of COVID treatments. Worthless nostrums such as hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin have been promoted as COVID treatments based on transparently bogus evidence. Skidmore disagreed with BMC's retraction notice in April, and still does.
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