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Jeff Childers writes:<\/p>\n
Earlier this month, the gold-standard Cleveland Clinic published a shocking study titled, \u201cEffectiveness of the Influenza Vaccine During the 2024-2025 Respiratory Viral Season: A Prospective Cohort Study.\u201d In short, the Clinic found that last year\u2019s flu vaccine was at least as effective at preventing the potentially deadly disease than using Himalayan prayer beads or nailing a dead raccoon over your front door.<\/p>\n
Haha, I\u2019m just kidding. According to the study of some 53,000 healthcare professionals, dead raccoons and prayer beads work better than the flu vaccine. The Clinic found that, after about 90 days following the injections \u2014well after any FDA-required postmarketing trials stop looking\u2014 staff who got the shots became increasingly more likely to get the flu than their unjabbed coworkers.<\/p>\n
In technical terms, the Clinic\u2019s researchers discovered the flu vaccine had a negative efficacy of -27%.<\/p>\n
Now look, dummies, I know what you\u2019re thinking. You\u2019re thinking I\u2019ll just stick with the raccoons. But that\u2019s because you aren\u2019t a $cientist. Unlike you, those profit-seeking professionals know how to say \u201ccorrelation does not prove causation.\u201d Just because thousands of healthcare workers were more likely to come down with the flu after getting the shots doesn\u2019t prove the shots caused it. It could be anything, like witches. Or anti-vaxxers. Either one.<\/p>\n
You really need to learn this lesson. Correlation definitely does not prove causation \u2026 unless it tends to show that vaccines work. Then it\u2019s Katy, bar the door.<\/p>\n