🧵 How bad science fuels vaccine misinformation – and what happens when the data doesn't fit the narrative.
You might remember Christine Stabell Benn & Peter Aaby, whose terrible study on COVID-19 vaccines my team and I debunked:
đź“Ś https://osf.io/preprints/j8ykx
You might remember Christine Stabell Benn & Peter Aaby, whose terrible study on COVID-19 vaccines my team and I debunked:
đź“Ś https://osf.io/preprints/j8ykx
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Now, it turns out they ran a randomized controlled trial on the DTP vaccine—exactly the kind of study they kept demanding—but never published the mortality data.
Yet, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been citing their weaker observational studies to push vaccine skepticism, claiming DTP kills children, especially girls.
Full revelations here:
#ScienceIntegrity #VaccineResearch #AcademicEthics #Misinformation
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