Thanks for this. I knew Wolf's claim was a BS misrepresentation of the Pfizer data but didn't bother digging in to see how she did it.
I must say, she's one of the most egregious grifters out there because it's clear she knows better but keeps harvesting donations and selling books.
...a letter to the editor of said journal by Kenji Yamamoto, a Japanese doctor...
Not just a doctor, he works in the varicose vein surgery unit!
You are most welcome. It was a courtesy ping because I mentioned you in reference to the Lancet study that Greywhiskers posted in a reply to you.
Yeah, Naomi is a real piece of work. After she was called out by her peers for shoddy research resulting in false conclusions in her own supposed field of expertise (radical feminism) beginning with her thesis and then one of her books, and her last book was so riddled with errors her publisher had to pulp all copies, she started jumping on passing bandwagons to get attention. First she veered right and went Tea Party. Then made a sharp left turn and went all in on Occupy Wall Street.
Along the way she started spouting nutty conspiracy theory stuff. For instance, she claimed that ghastly ISIS video showing them beheading the two Americans and two British was a fake created by the CIA and the poor headless guys and their families were all actors, and that American military sent to Africa to help out during the Ebola outbreak were actually being sent there to bring Ebola back to the US to start an epidemic here and topple the government.
Now she’s jumped on the vax doomer bandwagon. When this finally peters out, who knows, she may turn left again.
I didn’t pick up on the varicose vein clinic thing, so thanks for that. My beef is not so much with Dr. Yamamoto or his credentials as with his gross mischaracterizations of studies he cites to support claims he makes. Perhaps it’s a language/translation thing coupled with confirmation bias.