COVID Excess Deaths Paper Retracted Over Misinformation
The journal said the paper misrepresented possible causes of excess mortality and gave too little weight to alternative explanations.
- On Wednesday, BMJ Group retracted a 2024 BMJ Public Health study on COVID-19 excess mortality, citing "misinformation" in its discussion of mortality causes and the "limited nature" of the original work.
- The Netherlands-based Princess Maxima Center found the article "pays disproportionate attention" to vaccination as a cause for mortality and "misleadingly cited literature" supporting its own arguments.
- Epidemiologist Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz, PhD, noted the paper relied on an earlier study which the authors "re-analyzed badly," fueling widespread criticism that it lent credence to vaccine skepticism.
- Gertjan Kaspers, PhD, and Minke Huibers, PhD, support the retraction but disagree the article contains misinformation, while Saskia Mostert, PhD, and Marcel Hoogland oppose the decision entirely.
- The retraction notice cited "questionable behavior" by Mostert, though it found "no evidence of malicious intent"; BMJ Group editor Helen Macdonald said the case was "complicated" requiring investigation.
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A study from 2024 aims to show that in the years following the peak of the Corona pandemic, mortality is abnormally high in several regions of the world. For vaccine opponents, the publication is a found eating. Just two years later, the study is withdrawn.
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AlKhaleej TodayControversial Covid excess deaths study retracted after criticism over vaccine misinformation
PARIS, Aug 12 — A controversial study analysing excess deaths during the Covid pandemic, which was widely criticised for lending credence to vaccine scepticism, has been retracted, the British journal’s publisher announced today. The study, published in the journal BMJ Public Health in 2024, was retracted “on the grounds of misinformation on causes of death and limited original work conducted by the authors”, the BMJ Group said in a statement.Th…
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The study, published in 2024, has been met with significant criticism for fueling vaccine skeptics.
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Pakistan Live NewsControversial study on Covid-era excess deaths withdrawn over misinformation
PARIS: A controversial study analysing excess deaths during the Covid pandemic, which was widely criticised for lending credence to vaccine scepticism, has been retracted, the British journal's publisher announced Wednesday.The study,...
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