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Sec Kennedy: The editor-in-chief already clearly explained the reason for the removal in his notice (https://t.co/GKdaPdAfM9), which was that there were methodological flaws in the paper so serious that the conclusions were unsubstantiated. I mention the specific methodological flaw here, which involves inferring causality from the fact that VAERs reports clustered close in time to the day of the shot, an inherent characteristic of passive reporting systems and not even close to sufficient to conclude causality or even an association: https://t.co/RpVGj72mra Given this fatal flaw that was not detected by peer review, the entire argument in the paper falls apart, and the conclusion unsubstantiated. I explain why this statistical reasoning is invalid in my white paper on the USA vaccine safety monitoring system (see plot below) This white paper (https://t.co/OxqjaJ4blr) summarizes the various US vaccine safety monitoring components, describing how they are supposed to work together, and providing specific suggestions on how it could be improved for more sensitive and specific detection of potential vaccine harms and more transparent communiation. It also highlights various valid and invalid analytical approaches that some use to analyze data from these systems -- and inferring causation from simple temporal reporting patterns in days since vaccine is one of them: