Re:Open letter from the BMJ to Mark Zuckerberg
by SpicyLemonZest on Friday December 17, 2021 @01:34PM
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The original BMJ article doesn't draw any conclusions that I can see. It certainly doesn't suggest the Pfizer vaccine is unsafe or ineffective, as the "fact check" heavily implies.
Re:Open letter from the BMJ to Mark Zuckerberg
by sceutre on Friday December 17, 2021 @02:24PM
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This one is a more in-depth rebuttal to the article and indeed BMJ itself; I found it compelling. https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/what-the-heck-happened-to-t... It argues that the article was disingenuous to the point of being propaganda.
Re:Open letter from the BMJ to Mark Zuckerberg
by nojito on Friday December 17, 2021 @01:42PM
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It almost certainly does. They even block out a box of their conclusions in grey to draw the reader eyes.
Additionally, the fact they never reached out to the companies at all is telling enough of their agenda.
Re:Open letter from the BMJ to Mark Zuckerberg
by colinmhayes on Friday December 17, 2021 @01:56PM
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People on Facebook aren't actually reading the journal. They're looking at the title and saying "see, the vaccine was unsafe all along." The fact checkers said "Missing context ... Independent fact-checkers say this information could mislead people" which is absolutely true.
https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2021/11/fact-check-britis...
The conclusions in the original BMJ article make zero sense when actually scrutinized.
https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2635