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Ioannidis pushes circular 'safe and effective' vaccination assumptions in model to show vaccine saved millions of lives

Imagine that we want to test the claim that a special diet - let’s call it D - that consists of consuming 10,000 calories a day without any exercise will lead to weight loss of 50 pounds in 5 weeks. To make such a bold claim you would expect us to examine the evidence by comparing the recorded weight of people before and after being on the diet.

But supp…