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From: https://www.logically.ai/factchecks/library/99987978 https://www.logically.ai/factchecks/library/99987978 > Malhotra's comments are highly misleading and

From: https://www.logically.ai/factchecks/library/99987978 https://www.logically.ai/factchecks/library/99987978 > Malhotra's comments are highly misleading and vastly exaggerate the risk of heart problems following a COVID-19 vaccine. His comments are based on a recently published abstract from American Heart Association's (AHA) journal Circulation. The paper lacks credibility and has been cited by a number of COVID-19 skeptics and conspiracy theorists over the past week, including Vernon Coleman and Robert Malone, to imply that the vaccine is unsafe... the paper is not a published paper at all - it is a poster presentation from an online conference. Posters are a way of advertising talks about scientific work during conferences, and are neither peer-reviewed nor published in the same way that actual scientific papers are. This abstract has no published data, no references, and several spelling errors. Since the abstract was published on November 8, the AHA has updated the abstract with an Expression of Concern, saying that the abstract is not reliable and needs to be corrected: “Soon after the publication of the above abstract in Circulation, it was brought to the American Heart Association Committee on Scientific Sessions Program’s attention that there are potential errors in the abstract. Specifically, there are several typographical errors, there is no data in the abstract regarding myocardial T-cell infiltration, there are no statistical analyses for significance provided, and the author is not clear that only anecdotal data was used. We are publishing this Expression of Concern until a suitable correction is published to indicate that the abstract in its current version may not be reliable.” The author of the abstract and study, Dr. Steven Gundry, is a former cardiac surgeon who has spent the last ten years retired from medicine and instead has spent his time writing diet books. He has made numerous pseudoscientific and false claims since he left the medical profession, and he earns a living selling unproven wellness treatments. He has promoted the unscientific “lectins” theory of disease.

g42gregory 5y ago
Does he imply that the vaccine is unsafe? I didn't get that impression from the video at all. He is saying that there are potential problems and some of the scientists are wary to express them because they worry about loss of funding from the Pharma. Why would we take Logically factcheck at the face value? Are we not supposed to investigate vaccine safety at all? Lastly, the COVID-19 infection has its own, quite significant I think, negative effects on the heart. So I wouldn't take this as a ding on the vaccine safety at all. But we'd better investigate it, so that we could make it better. That's my take.

g42gregory 5y ago

Does he imply that the vaccine is unsafe? I didn't get that impression from the video at all. He is saying that there are potential problems and some of the scientists are wary to express them because they worry about loss of funding from the Pharma. Why would we take Logically factcheck at the face value? Are we not supposed to investigate vaccine safety at all? Lastly, the COVID-19 infection has its own, quite significant I think, negative effects on the heart. So I wouldn't take this as a ding on the vaccine safety at all. But we'd better investigate it, so that we could make it better. That's my take.