Discussion about this post

User's avatar
Alison Bevege's avatar

That PLoS One study claiming "lives saved" was based on this dodgy NSW Health data - and after we raised the issue and they investigated, PLoS One decided they had no problem with it - which says a lot about PLoS One standards.

Thank you for such an excellent and thorough story on this issue!

Expand full comment
WJM's avatar

Norman Fenton has shown how easy it is to create the appearance of efficacy by counting recently vaccinated as unvaccinated, even with a placebo it is inevitable. You may have done the same - I’m just more familiar with his work.

This arithmetical con was actually first used by Pasteur at a time when a vaccine was as likely to kill you as not. The sainted Louis was obviously both aware of the problem and smart enough to know what to do about it.

Expand full comment
12 more comments...

No posts