The pre-print problem
Contrarians escape peer review by misinterpreting and amplifying small, cherrypicked pre-print studies
One of the disinformation doctors’ preferred methods to spread public health confusion is to bypass the peer-review process, a key tenet of scientific journal publishing, by discussing pre-print data directly with the general population on social media. Tracy Beth Høeg MD, PhD, a member of the anti-public health physician organization the Urgency of Normal, recently posted her analysis of a “stunning” pre-print study out of Thailand assessing cardiac complications in children following administration of the Pfizer mRNA Covid vaccine to her 49,800 followers.
Pediatric and adult congenital cardiologist, Frank Han MD, looked at the study and gave his appropriate assessment of the data within his area of expertise and found “nothing stunning to the trained observer”. For his full analysis see here.
Høeg’s Urgency of Normal colleague, UCSF’s recently promoted anti-mask oncologist Vinay Prasad MD, MPH, also amplified misinterpretation of this study with his 203,700 Twitter followers by sharing adult cardiologist Anish Koka MD’s Substack analysis.
The message was retweeted by Makary, a Fox News and Wall Street Journal contributor and Glenn Youngkin’s (R-VA) Covid advisor to his 179,300 followers.
They’ve run this ladder countless times to amplify disinformation. I’ve written about it once before on this blog. Høeg and Makary used cardiologist Peter McCullough MD, MPH in that instance.
Dr. Han had already published a piece on our Substack on pediatric myocarditis and vaccines and how it is being overblown by this same crowd. He translated it to Spanish as well.
Enough.
The troll hydra needs a little pruning. Got to catch up on the recent additions, although it looks like their talking points remain the same BS just new faces (or not)...
I saw Dr. Erickson ask reasonable questions spring 2020. Viral. Quickly banned on social media. Why? I followed him, others in Internet ghettos. They told me about Vit D.
Why didn't your experts?
What's up with recent concessions of Birx and wallensky? It's not criminal to be an idiot, except if you are giving orders to the nation on an experimental vax...
I hope they are tried and hung. If you publically urge mandates, I hope you are hung to.