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• tstrimple 5y ago
  Cool, you counter a news article backed by a study with a tweet backed by screenshots of headlines. Seems totally reasonable.
  • raphlinus 5y ago
    Not only that, but a tweet from someone who has earned the title, "the pandemic's wrongest man". ETA: And to critique the substance and not the messenger, I have tried to track down any publication of the Israeli Health Ministry that contains data supporting this claim, and have failed to do so. All traces lead to a story in the Israel National News, which gives no specifics about the source of the data, just lots of numbers to support the conclusion that vaccines don't work well. There's a good chance all this is just fabricated. If you can cite a report by the Israeli Health Ministry and provide an analysis supporting the claim that doesn't contain an obvious statistical error (wrong denominator being the one I suspect), then I will apologize abjectly and donate $1000 to the charity of your choice. [1]: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/pandemics-wrongest-man/618475/ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/pandemics-...
    • JPKab 5y ago
      Thank you for recognizing the ad-hominem nature of your initial sentence and moving on to engaging on the argument. This is far more convincing and made your comment far more credible.
  • js290 5y ago
    you're a "hacker"... use the interwebz to find the original study... or do you need Snopes to do that for you?