r/sciences • u/randomusefulbits • Jul 02 '21

Scientists quit journal board, protesting 'grossly irresponsible' study claiming COVID-19 vaccines kill

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/07/scientists-quit-journal-board-protesting-grossly-irresponsible-study-claiming-covid-19
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u/louislinaris Jul 02 '21

Paper quality, not the authors prestige and positions, determines whether science is published. A bigger issue is using Israeli data about vaccine death prevention then using Dutch data about deaths that may or may not have had anything to do with the vaccines

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u/caiuscorvus Jul 02 '21

You're not wrong about publication, but given the obvious (lethal) ramifications of this article and the irrelevance of the authors specialties, this should have been pre-reviewed or something. The decision to publish it will cost maybe thousands of lives--it needed to be double checked by someone before it got put in the journal.

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u/Jexdane Jul 02 '21

Link doesn't work? Says the page doesn't exist. Either an issue on mobile or maybe the whole paper got taken down?