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    Michael Hiltzik: Why anti-vaxxers are pretending a flawed study on vaccine deaths has been vindicated

    by Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times Oct 26, 2023 5 minutes
    President Joe Biden receives a COVID-19 booster shot in the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, next to the White House, in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 25, 2022.

    Over the weekend, as I pondered a volume of forgotten lore — it was Emily Wilson's gripping translation of Homer's "Odyssey," actually — my email inbox started filling up with the curious news that a long-discredited and retracted paper claiming that the COVID vaccines had killed nearly 300,000 Americans had been "reinstated."

    It did not take long to determine that the truth was, no, not really. But the sudden appearance of this claim and its rapid spread across the anti-vaccine ecosystem speak volumes about how "bad papers written by antivax ideologues designed to promote a narrative that vaccines are dangerous and/or ineffective ... never die," to quote the veteran pseudoscience debunker David Gorski.

    "Junk science can often find a home somewhere in the bowels of the literature, but that doesn't stop it being junk science," says John P. Moore, professor of microbiology and immunology at Weill Cornell

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