3 years ago

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There's been quite a bit of buzz lately about a new paper by Dr Aseem Malhotra, which was published in the Journal of Insulin Resistance, that he says was published after a rigorous and long peer review process and is perhaps the most important work of his career so far with implications for every human being on the planet. He has been extensively promoting the paper at antivax conferences and on some TV shows, falsely claiming that it shows a link between vaccines and cardiac arrests. In this video, Dr Susan Oliver and Cindy the dog go back to the science and show that the paper misrepresents the studies it cites and ignores most of the literature. They also demonstrate that it shouldn’t have passed peer review.

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Previous debunks of references cited:

Issues with Abstract 10712
https://www.clinical-science-nerd.de/post/no-mrna-vaccines-for-covid-19-do-not-dramatically-increase-the-risk-for-heart-attacks

https://respectfulinsolence.com/2021/11/24/how-antivaxxers-weaponized-an-abstract-by-a-goop-doctor-against-covid-19-vaccines/

Video debunking paper that was NOT published in Nature:

Spurious correlation between vaccines and cardiac emergency calls in Israel
https://youtu.be/B64UIabUuP8

Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
1:30 Journal of Insulin Resistance?
3:06 Peer reviewing review papers
6:47 Dr Malhotra’s appeal to authority
8:01 Conference abstract 10712 misrepresented
10:33 Peer review 101 - Check the references
13:44 3 papers that Dr Malhotra didn’t include
16:56 Absolute risk reduction misrepresented
17:41 A blog post? Really?
18:01 Serious illness data misrepresented
29:43 Nature paper that isn’t
20:37 Malhotra doesn’t know basic vaccine science
21:41 Crazy claims from Fenton et al. Sweden?

Links to data:

Curing the pandemic of misinformation on COVID-19 mRNA vaccines through real evidence-based medicine - Part 1
https://insulinresistance.org/index.php/jir/article/view/71/221

Design of Antimicrobial Polymers
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/macp.202200226

Implausible discussions in saturated fat ‘research’; definitive solutions won’t come from another million editorials (or a million views of one)
https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/53/24/1512

Saturated fat does not clog the arteries: coronary heart disease is a chronic inflammatory condition, the risk of which can be effectively reduced from healthy lifestyle interventions
https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/51/15/1111

Safety and Efficacy of the BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2034577

Safety and Efficacy of the BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine through 6 Months
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NeJMoa2110345

Safety of the BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine in a Nationwide Setting
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa2110475

Myocardial Infarction, Stroke, and Pulmonary Embolism After BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine in People Aged 75 Years or Older
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2786667

Association Between Vaccination and Acute Myocardial Infarction and Ischemic Stroke After COVID-19 Infection
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2794753

FDA Clinical review of BNT162b2
https://www.fda.gov/media/152256/download

Increased emergency cardiovascular events among under-40 population in Israel during vaccine rollout and third COVID-19 wave
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-10928-z

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