Last October, the Florida Surgeon General issued new guidance around the COVID-19 vaccines: men aged 18-39 should not receive COVID mRNA vaccines. This policy change was based on an analysis they performed that found “an increased risk of cardiac-related death among men 18-39
One more time...Florida. Under DeSantis and his despicable regime voters rights have been turned back, books banned, guns protected while children are massacred and science ignored or worse, manipulated to support a personal/political bias. Thank you for another clear, fact-based report. As others have written...you rock!
Thank you for this important detailed analysis calmly demonstrating what can only be called the corruption of a medical study for political purposes. This process is totally unacceptable and the authors of version 6 and the State Health Officer must be sanctioned by whatever professional bodies they belong to, including a lifetime ban from publishing medical literature and loss of license if any. In addition this documentation provides any young man in Florida who remained unvaccinated and caught a serious case of COVID-19 (especially with cardiac complications) good grounds for malpractice actions.
Oh FFS. it's the Hooker reanalysis data contortion to reach the desired conclusion all over again. Except this time it was done by a partisan government office wanting to pander to a political party that for some absurd reason adopted 'resistance to sensible public health measures that protect the citizenry' as a primary platform. If reporters aren't repeatedly peppering that governor with questions such as "Were you personally aware of the scientific data and reporting misconduct performed in your administration?", they aren't doing their jobs.
Research misconduct means fabrication, falsification, or plagiarism in proposing, performing, or reviewing research, or in reporting research results.
(a) Fabrication is making up data or results and recording or reporting them.
(b) Falsification is manipulating research materials, equipment, or processes, or changing or omitting data or results such that the research is not accurately represented in the research record.
(c) Plagiarism is the appropriation of another person’s ideas, processes, results, or words without giving appropriate credit.
(d) Research misconduct does not include honest error or differences of opinion.
We live in a post-truth society. An intentional delegitimization of science, factuality, and any knowledge claims in general. This intentional move is to suggest that everyone is self-interested; everyone is willing to twist information for their own ends; no previously authorities can be trusted. This is so cynical, so falsely "sophisticated" a mode of thought. The spurious Florida report is a win-win for its issuers. If people believe it- why that's all to the good. If it is debunked- why that's great too as it shows science can't be trusted. The ultimate goal is to render the populace bewildered and malleable. Malleable to whom? Demagogues and conspiracy theorists like those who infest right wing politics at this time. A sorry pass indeed. A coup against the Enlightenment.
I truly hope that a media organization picks up your thoughtfully-written piece and shares it widely. I am appalled by this behavior; though as a Florida resident, nothing here surprises me anymore.
Congratulations on a thorough epidemiological review of a clearly results-oriented science-fiction article. I so miss integrity in the professions - I’m glad and grateful that you’ve retained yours.
This is such important information, but it's a double-edged sword. It shows how the unethically the science was manipulated for a desired outcome (which is wrong!) but it ALSO may confirm in some minds that "science" is unreliable...
It is shockingly creepy to see results pre-determined and then the data manipulated to fit that conclusion. Thankfully, we have smart people to analyze these reports!
I saw parts of this study being picked apart by people, but not this thorough and succinct evaluation. They transferred the information into a guidance? So wrong. Everything that’s coming out of Florida lately is politically motivated and based on lies. Thanks YLE.
I'd add, as someone who is careful about causal inference (see the Northwestern workshop that I run on Research Design for Causal Inference)that the design should have included a second control period, prior to vaccination. All the most so since results were sensitive to the choice of the treatment period.
One more time...Florida. Under DeSantis and his despicable regime voters rights have been turned back, books banned, guns protected while children are massacred and science ignored or worse, manipulated to support a personal/political bias. Thank you for another clear, fact-based report. As others have written...you rock!
The Florida surgeon general should be charged with fraud.
Why isn’t the AMA, national and/or state, revoking this fraud’s medical license?
Thank you for this important detailed analysis calmly demonstrating what can only be called the corruption of a medical study for political purposes. This process is totally unacceptable and the authors of version 6 and the State Health Officer must be sanctioned by whatever professional bodies they belong to, including a lifetime ban from publishing medical literature and loss of license if any. In addition this documentation provides any young man in Florida who remained unvaccinated and caught a serious case of COVID-19 (especially with cardiac complications) good grounds for malpractice actions.
Oh FFS. it's the Hooker reanalysis data contortion to reach the desired conclusion all over again. Except this time it was done by a partisan government office wanting to pander to a political party that for some absurd reason adopted 'resistance to sensible public health measures that protect the citizenry' as a primary platform. If reporters aren't repeatedly peppering that governor with questions such as "Were you personally aware of the scientific data and reporting misconduct performed in your administration?", they aren't doing their jobs.
42 CFR Part 93
§ 93.103 Research misconduct.
Research misconduct means fabrication, falsification, or plagiarism in proposing, performing, or reviewing research, or in reporting research results.
(a) Fabrication is making up data or results and recording or reporting them.
(b) Falsification is manipulating research materials, equipment, or processes, or changing or omitting data or results such that the research is not accurately represented in the research record.
(c) Plagiarism is the appropriation of another person’s ideas, processes, results, or words without giving appropriate credit.
(d) Research misconduct does not include honest error or differences of opinion.
We live in a post-truth society. An intentional delegitimization of science, factuality, and any knowledge claims in general. This intentional move is to suggest that everyone is self-interested; everyone is willing to twist information for their own ends; no previously authorities can be trusted. This is so cynical, so falsely "sophisticated" a mode of thought. The spurious Florida report is a win-win for its issuers. If people believe it- why that's all to the good. If it is debunked- why that's great too as it shows science can't be trusted. The ultimate goal is to render the populace bewildered and malleable. Malleable to whom? Demagogues and conspiracy theorists like those who infest right wing politics at this time. A sorry pass indeed. A coup against the Enlightenment.
I truly hope that a media organization picks up your thoughtfully-written piece and shares it widely. I am appalled by this behavior; though as a Florida resident, nothing here surprises me anymore.
It stinks, badly. Heads should roll.
Congratulations on a thorough epidemiological review of a clearly results-oriented science-fiction article. I so miss integrity in the professions - I’m glad and grateful that you’ve retained yours.
This is such important information, but it's a double-edged sword. It shows how the unethically the science was manipulated for a desired outcome (which is wrong!) but it ALSO may confirm in some minds that "science" is unreliable...
It is shockingly creepy to see results pre-determined and then the data manipulated to fit that conclusion. Thankfully, we have smart people to analyze these reports!
I saw parts of this study being picked apart by people, but not this thorough and succinct evaluation. They transferred the information into a guidance? So wrong. Everything that’s coming out of Florida lately is politically motivated and based on lies. Thanks YLE.
Great analysis thank you.
Did the authors of the final draft include any language describing whether the glove did indeed fit O.J.?
I don't 'appreciate' how some scientists and doctors follow politics rather than facts. I will ignore any study done in Florida.
I'd add, as someone who is careful about causal inference (see the Northwestern workshop that I run on Research Design for Causal Inference)that the design should have included a second control period, prior to vaccination. All the most so since results were sensitive to the choice of the treatment period.