Major COVID study that fueled vaccine skepticism retracted over ‘misinformation’

490 points by scientificamerican 3 hours ago on reddit | 22 comments

leavezukoalone | 2 hours ago

Unfortunately, the people who buy in to these “studies” aren’t the type of people who will care about a retraction. In fact, I imagine the majority of them will assume the study was forced to be retracted by the “deep state.”

We aren’t working with critical thinkers here.

zackks | an hour ago

The study did the job it was funded to do.

Technical-Past-1386 | 2 hours ago

I hate that I’m giggling; but sadly, I lost long time friends from this crapola. Good thing laughing helps release the mourning ! Woof.

Glum_Material3030 | an hour ago

I agree. They won’t care or even know what a retraction means.

mootmutemoat | 2 hours ago

The excess mortality in countries that were slower to roll out the vaccine was 5 times higher than quick adopters.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10357837/

The lead author complains she faced criticism and lost her job for claiming vaccines caused excess death. Good. She should have. She demonstrated lethal incompetence.

sweetica | 2 hours ago

Well it's about damn time. Now the idiots can take off their tin foil hats.

95Ricosuave | 2 hours ago

ahahahahaha

Oberon_Swanson | 59 minutes ago

They will just say the woke deep state forced the retraction to hide "the truth"

MotherofHedgehogs | 2 hours ago

But yeah, let’s prosecute Fauci…

oOBlueLillyOo | 2 hours ago

Damage has been done. Some things you can’t go oops my bad

GeneralZex | an hour ago

That was the point.

The_best_is_yet | an hour ago

helpful articles like this are behind a paywall. meanwhile my mom watches fox news for free, and believes every bit of it.

Inspect1234 | an hour ago

Jeez, with a retraction that would mean the information was misinformation. These people who publish misinformation need to be held accountable, possibly with a class action lawsuit.

DanoPinyon | 35 minutes ago

Oligarchs are never held accountable.

lisabutz | 2 hours ago

Louder for those in the back

trash-juice | 43 minutes ago

How many ppl have needlessly died due to bad information? Are there consequences for this, cause there certainly are for the ppl …

Cranktique | 33 minutes ago

The people that believed that bullshit made up their minds before this study was released. They were working backwards from the conclusions they had already drawn and if it wasn’t this study they pointed to to justify that decision, it would have been some other obscure bullshit.

Louder please!

Kyle_Harding | 28 minutes ago

anything that makes a politician look bad is misinformation, been that way for decades

No1CouldHavePredictd | 22 minutes ago

No One Could Have Predicted...

AlteredEinst | 15 minutes ago

Served its purpose, though, and that's all that matters to the pedophile administration.

GOETHEFAUST87 | 10 minutes ago

lol! Too late. The damage is done.