First -- it's sad that you pollute every thread with anti-vax Covid-denier nonsense -- even those threads where it is clearly off-topic.
No -- the American Heart Association was not censored for a warning about the Covid vaccine. One of their members published a study abstract in the AHA journal which contained non-factual information about heart inflammation and Covid vaccines. The AHA stamped the paper with an "Expression of Concern" after the medical community weighed in.
New Covid-19 Vaccine, Myocarditis Claims From Questionable Abstract In American Heart Association Journal
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucel...an-heart-association-journal/?sh=25c530cf7a63
A research abstract that was
published on November 8 in the medical journal Circulation has gotten a fair amount of circulation on social media.The abstract made a pretty dramatic claim: “mRNA vacs dramatically increase inflammation” in the heart, which “may account for the observations of increased thrombosis, cardiomyopathy, and other vascular events following vaccination.” However, there has been some drama around this abstract and its being short on a little thing called “evidence” to support such claims. In fact, on November 24, an American Heart Association committee added an “
Expression of Concern” warning due to “potential errors in the abstract.”
Have such potential errors stopped those on social media from disseminating the abstract and making even more unsupported claims about Covid-19 vaccines? In a word, no. In two words, heck no. In 12 words, why let science and facts get in the way of making claims? For example, the following tweet shared the abstract while incorrectly claiming that what was said in the abstract constituted an American Heart Association (AHA) warning:
Umm, just because a research abstract was published in
Circulation, an AHA journal, doesn’t necessary mean that the abstract’s contents represent the position of the AHA. That would be a little like saying that the song “WAP” represents the position of Spotify. Unless an abstract said that it represents the position of the AHA, whatever is in the abstract is
not an AHA warning. It would be more accurate to call this a Gundry warning. That’s because Steven R. Gundry, MD, was the one and only author of the abstract.
Who is Gundry? Well, you can say, “aha, he’s not the AHA.”
A bio on the Goop website describes Gundry as “the founder and director of the International Heart and Lung Institute as well as the Center for Restorative Medicine. He is the author of
The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in “Healthy” Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain,
The Longevity Paradox: How to Die Young at a Ripe Old Age, and the upcoming
The Plant Paradox Family Cookbook.” In 2016, Gundry founded Gundry MD, which includes a wellness blog, a YouTube channel, and a company that sells supplements. So a Gundry warning is definitely not the same as an AHA warning.
Plus, a 319-word abstract research abstract is not the same thing as a peer-reviewed study published as a research article in a reputable scientific journal.
Circulation is a very reputable scientific journal. But a research abstract for an AHA meeting is not the same as a research article in that journal. Just because you got a classified ad into a newspaper trying to sell your One Direction shrine doesn’t mean that you wrote an article about One Direction for that newspaper. Similarly, an abstract for a meeting alone usually doesn’t go through the same formal rigorous peer review that a published research article would.
Yet, that apparently hasn’t stopped anti-vaxxers from referring to “this abstract as a peer-reviewed paper in
Circulation,” according to the following tweet from Tara C. Smith, PhD,
a Professor of Epidemiology at the Kent State University College of Public Health:
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