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Re:Increased cardiovascular events in Israel during vaccine ... by jimmont on Friday April 29, 2022 @04:06AM (#31202624)
Consider submitting this feedback to Nature. It’s generally a reliable source. I’d be curious to see how they respond to your review.
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Re:Increased cardiovascular events in Israel during vaccine ... by schiffern on Friday April 29, 2022 @04:34AM (#31202796)
Note that this journal is Scientific Reports (a Nature Portfolio journal), not Nature. Confusing I know.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_Reports

> Scientific Reports is an online peer-reviewed open access scientific mega journal published by Nature Portfolio

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega_journal

> A mega journal (also mega-journal and megajournal) is a peer-reviewed academic open access journal designed to be much larger than a traditional journal by exercising low selectivity among accepted articles. It was pioneered by PLOS ONE. This "very lucrative publishing model" was soon emulated by other publishers.

Basically it's bunk-for-hire.

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Re:Increased cardiovascular events in Israel during vaccine ... by someotherperson on Friday April 29, 2022 @04:37AM (#31202816)
The domain is a bit misleading. It's not Nature, it's Scientific Reports, and it's not exactly a great journal[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_Reports#Controversi...

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Re:Increased cardiovascular events in Israel during vaccine ... by fock on Friday April 29, 2022 @04:34AM (#31202793)
You know this is published in Nature ... Scientific Reports. And there goes the reliability!
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