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# Who Needs a Peer Review?!
- URL: https://birchtree.me/blog/who-needs-a-peer-review/
- Published: 2022-10-12T18:59:16.000Z
- Updated: 2022-10-12T18:59:16.000Z
- Author: Matt Birchler
- Tags: Links, Politics, #Import 2023-06-01 22:41, #Import 2025-03-29 19:29

[Beth Mole: That Florida “analysis” on COVID vaccines is-you guessed it-total garbage](https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/10/that-florida-analysis-on-covid-vaccines-is-you-guessed-it-total-garbage/?ref=birchtree.me)

> Experts roundly dubbed the analysis "utter rubbish," "extremely misleading," and "comically bad." Some called the analysis method "terrible," and one epidemiologist called it "the absolute most batshit study design & analysis plan I have ever seen." Others noted that the conclusion "smells of p-hacking" and data cherry-picking.

There's nothing conservative media (and politicians, and normal people, and…) like more than a non-peer reviewed study that falls apart under the slightest scrutiny.