"Some may criticize the Danish study for not yet being peer-reviewed, but it has been. It was peer-reviewed by me and several colleagues, and all of us have decades of experience with these types of studies. That it has not yet been peer-reviewed by anonymous journal reviewers is inconsequential."
Wait.. let me guess: someone googled a "fact checker" and called it a day? lol
Had a quick read through it. And well, it’s the first preprint. Any reasonable scientific conclusion is always (or at least should be) a corpus. That being said the authors seem at the very least credible and the results are eyebrow raising in the sense that, if true, it would flip the “more trustworthy/effective” factor from mRNA based to Adenovirus based
We’ll have to see what the independent peer reviews return.. one thing I for instance couldn’t find that quickly in the research is the differentiating factor between multiple v single dose in case of mRNA variants in the test groups. The latter requires multiple doses for (alleged) effectiveness whereas Astra, Jansen, Sputnik etc. only require one. So that might be something to pick up in future research and/or a reason to retract/edit.
if (and yes, that’s an if) the Adenovirus variants are indeed less deadly/more reliable it would certainly undermine the whole “its time for your *insert number here booster shot, sir” narrative.
Science aside though the question of whether or not the antivax crowd was justified in refusing is in my opinion not (co) dependend on any scientific conclusion, seen as its an ethical question, and Science as a toolset is a-ethical by nature.
A complete disaster for a mainstream media and public majority who has been vilifying anti-vaxxers for the past 2 years
yeah I'm sure that, if true, most of them including their funders are going to do the right thing, retract smearpiece articles and apologize to this undesirable minority demographic instead of quitely editing the articles all the way down below the webpage and/or hunkering down in (group) confirmation bias anyway..
In all seriousness though.. I don't think it would even matter at this point íf the mNRA vaccines where discredited scientifically and/or if public opinion where swayed, things like the WHO's Pandemic Treaty are already being pushed through
link and they're not going to wait for Science to catch up and give the most accutate view of the Corona situation and its potential remedy. Which means
- more information restriction by the plebs and any reasonable decenting voices (
after all: how can we claim "all scientists agree" when we dont censor the ones who don't)
- more surveillance and less privacy.
- more permanent restrictions/ less freedom
- more control over global, regional and national supply chains etc.
never waste a good crisis.