MAHA Looks Out for Its Own
Just throw a “gaslight study” out there when needed to protect the narrative . . .
I’ve written before about why MAHA is better at science communications — basically, because they are spinning a narrative, not describing actual scientific facts or claims.
As part of this, they’ve created their own outlets. Frankly, I still can’t get over this logo:
RealClear Journals comes from the people who brought you RealClear Politics, which is described as “a semi-reliable news source/aggregator with a mediocre reputation for journalistic integrity” — which may be an apt description at best for its Journal of the Academy of Public Health.
First, there is no “Academy of Public Health” in reality. Second, it’s clearly a MAHA “gaslight” journal.
So, of course, when RFK Jr., failed to secure a retraction of a large Danish study showing that vaccines do not cause autism, it didn’t take long for a misleading and reactive “gaslight study” in the same general vicinity to show up in a RealCr**py Journals title. It’s not even peer-reviewed, but essentially a preprint posted for review in their “gaslight” journal.
The headline is the reason for placing it:
Identification of Potential Adverse Events After COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines in Danish Children Using Healthcare Registries
Scary and intimidating, but of course they didn’t really identify anything because they: