A Harvard study is going viral among anti-vaxxers. The author says they are all wrong.

[Nevilledog]

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Ali Breland
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a study from a harvard prof went viral in right-wing, antivax spaces. vaccine skeptics held it up as proof that vaccines don't work. so i talked to the professor. he was confused, said that they're completely wrong and that the paper is pro-vaccine

A Harvard study is going viral among anti-vaxxers. The author says they are all wrong.
New research backing vaccines is being twisted to smear them.
motherjones.com
6:25 AM · Oct 12, 2021

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/10/subramanian-harvard-covid-vaccines/

Anti-vaxxers say that they’ve found a smoking gun: a new blue-chip paper that proves COVID vaccines are ineffective.

The vaccine “doesn’t stop you from getting [COVID] at all,” claimed Daniel Horowitz, a senior editor at the Blaze, in in a tweet promoting a column he wrote trumpeting the research. The headline: “Harvard researcher finds absolutely no correlation between vax rates and COVID cases globally.” Supporters of Horowitz’s perspective tweeted the piece and posted it on Facebook, where it received over 4,000 interactions, including 2,600 shares, according to data from Crowdtangle, the Facebook-owned analytics company.

Alas, there’s just one problem for Horowitz and company: S.V. Subramanian, the Harvard professor of population health and geography behind the paper, says the vaccine doubters are completely wrong.

“That conclusion is misleading and inaccurate,” Subramanian told me of Horowitz’s Blaze column over email. “This paper supports vaccination as an important strategy for reducing infection and transmission, along with hand-washing, mask-wearing, and physical distancing.”

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[Hugh_Lebowski]

1. Now that the study's author says teh Blaze article is BS, will FB stop it from being posted?

Anyone holding their breath for that to happen?