The generation of disinformation is easy. You make a graph, type something, and you are done. Showing how wrong it is takes more time. This is an easy example. The graph is made up, but for some, it will not be clear why this is wrong and is dangerous disinformation. 1/7 - ThreadSky

marcveld.bsky.social • 57 days ago

The generation of disinformation is easy. You make a graph, type something, and you are done.

Showing how wrong it is takes more time. This is an easy example. The graph is made up, but for some, it will not be clear why this is wrong and is dangerous disinformation.
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gkd5mao.bsky.social•57 days ago

The work needed to correct wrong information is an order of magnitude higher as compared to the work needed to creat that statement the first place.

marcveld.bsky.social•57 days ago

1) The graph is supposed to be based on VAERS, the vaccine report system. That is true. But, as explained many times, VAERS does not show any causal relationship. This means the deaths reported may, or may not be caused by the vaccine. If this is not understood, it creates uncertainty.
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geometriquement.bsky.social•57 days ago

An example : he was struck by a lightning after being vaccinated.

https://metro.co.uk/2020/12/18/covid-vaccine-volunteer-struck-by-lightning-after-moderna-injection-13774498/

marcveld.bsky.social•57 days ago

2) People die. Yes, how sad that is, life is 100% lethal. In the week after the vaccine, many people will have died. In the week after drinking a coffee or eating an apple, many people will die.

Meaning: there is a background rate of deaths. In the US: 3M per year, which is ~58,000/week
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marcveld.bsky.social•57 days ago

In other words: you cannot assume that every death reported was due to the vaccine, without taking the base rate of deaths into account. Many large studies have shown that, if anything, the death rate of vaccinated was less than that of unvaccinated.

These are false numbers. But it gets worse.
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marcveld.bsky.social•57 days ago

3) the very high number of deaths in the graph is still not accounted for. To get there, the so-called-epidemiologist, multiplied the VAERS numbers by 31!

The excuse is "underreporting". Is this true? Yes., there is underreporting. If you have a painful arm, a sensitive injection site, etc
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marcveld.bsky.social•57 days ago

the chances are you do not report this. Although initial reporting of new medicines or vaccines is actually very high, these drop when it is not new anymore. The reporting of serious effects, such as death, is very high! The OP tries to bamboozle you again, and multiplies without justification.
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rdmorris.bsky.social•55 days ago

Multiplication without a license is a felony in 15 states.

marcveld.bsky.social•57 days ago

4) Always check your source. If they are a fake news site, or associated with known activists then be extra sceptical. Examples are anyone associated with the "children's health defence", "HART", "the WHN" or in this case, the "McCullough Foundation".

No, please do not share!
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gilliancarrin.bsky.social•57 days ago

Did the OP justify/explain 31?

marcveld.bsky.social•57 days ago

Only with "conservative underreporting" argument.

sciencemonkey.bsky.social•57 days ago

If the reporting rules were followed to the letter, there’d be millions of Covid vaccine deaths in VAERS, and likely 100% of them purely coincidental.

jeninsta11.bsky.social•56 days ago

Millions?

sciencemonkey.bsky.social•56 days ago

Yes.

Medical professionals are “required by law” to report specific adverse events. Death was one of the events listed for the Covid vaccines and there were no temporal proximity limits.

Millions of Americans die every year. The odds are most of them had a Covid vaccine.

axel-ellrodt.bsky.social•43 days ago

I wished I had downloaded a table by a physician on Twitter before the CV19 vaccines, where he listed the numbers of yearly deaths from a list of ailments, numbers that would be of course seen after millions would have been vaccinated. And ascribed to the vaccines by short-minded anti-vaxers

jeninsta11.bsky.social•57 days ago

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seentoomuch.bsky.social•56 days ago

Brandolini's Law (aka the b*llsh*t asymmetry principle):

It takes at least one order of magnitude more effort to debunk misinformation than it does to spread it.

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