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Re:Increased cardiovascular events in Israel during vaccine ... by alimov on Friday April 29, 2022 @03:35AM (#31202429)
I’m not very knowledgeable about this, but I was wondering if MIT (professor?) co-authorship precludes papers from coming to the wrong conclusions? Or is it we’ll know that when a co-author is from MIT that the paper is as rigorous and objective as possible?
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Re:Increased cardiovascular events in Israel during vaccine ... by cft on Friday April 29, 2022 @03:39AM (#31202454)
I am just comparing the potential veracity of a peer reviewed article in Nature of two MIT authors and one emergency physician from Ben Gurion University with a one line dismissal and a newspaper link. Which one is "we'll [sic] known" to be more plausible?
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Re:Increased cardiovascular events in Israel during vaccine ... by fsh on Friday April 29, 2022 @03:54AM (#31202545)
This is not published in Nature. Scientific reports is much less prestigious and selective.
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Re:Increased cardiovascular events in Israel during vaccine ... by buildbot on Friday April 29, 2022 @11:37AM (#31206511)
I said possibly less reliable because of some interesting data mismatches, not dismissing it. considering then other comments addressing the flaws in their stats, it seems quite wrong. I have a Masters degree from UBC and work as a data scientist, not that actually matters…
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Re:Increased cardiovascular events in Israel during vaccine ... by cft on Friday April 29, 2022 @03:03PM (#31209346)
Can you point to the specific error in the paper? I have a PhD from MIT, but I am not sure why "UBC" is relevant to the paper in question.
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Re:Increased cardiovascular events in Israel during vaccine ... by buildbot on Friday April 29, 2022 @05:45PM (#31210911)
I cannot, it is not my area of expertise. For the same reason "MIT" is relevant.
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Re:Increased cardiovascular events in Israel during vaccine ... by alimov on Friday April 29, 2022 @04:25AM (#31202738)
Ok I understand
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