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Slay News is a sh***y website, and they should be shunned. I honestly believe they’re a leftist front designed to snare gullible “conservatives” and make us look stupid.

First, their link to the study doesn’t work. Does anyone edit or proofread over there? Here’s the link:

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2816958

Second, Slay omits the study’s title:

“Reports of COVID-19 Vaccine Adverse Events in Predominantly Republican vs Democratic States” and “Question Is state political inclination associated with COVID-19 vaccine adverse event (AE) reporting?”

Why? Probably to get clicks.

In fact, the researchers conclude “ In finding that Republican-inclined states show higher COVID-19 AE reporting than Democrat-inclined states, this study suggests that Republicans are more likely to perceive or report those AEs and that Democrats are less likely to.”

In other words, JSM_Liberty is right: the researchers suggest Republicans are more likely to file an AE while Dems are less likely. That’s it.

Now, we can IMPLY all sorts of things from that statistical observation. Dems may choose politics over health with regard to VAERS. The Repubs are undaunted. And so on. Heck, put on the tin foil hat…after all, the difference between a conspiracy theory and fact is about 2 years.

But that should be reported as a theory or suggestion or tin foil…not a FACT.

relatedly…Third, at NO PLACE in this study are deaths revealed to be “surging.” Indeed, “ Adverse events were reported to the VAERS as severe if they threatened or caused death or led to emergency visits, hospitalizations, or disability.” If Slay had any reading comprehension skills, they’d see that deaths are lumped in with other things. Thus, even with a statistically significant odds ratio (there’s no way the geniuses at Slay could even BEGIN to explain that is basically a relative odds metric) it is IMPOSSIBLE to claim that the trend of deaths went up, or down, or stayed flat.

Slay makes Gateway Pundit look good, and GP sucks. I’ve seen less f-ed up reporting from NPR, and they’re the enemy. And we wind up looking like gullible rubes.

The alt media world is huge and you have dozens, maybe hundreds of Alex Jones wannabes, just as 20 years ago, there were dozens of talk show hosts who wanted to be the next Rush Limbaugh. There is little cost in setting up a podcast, compared with radio or TV, and it then becomes a matter of getting eyes and/or ears to your podcast. If not begging for contributions, they usually promote precious metals, health food, or survival gear. This is not unusual; even barely conservative talkers like Hugh Hewitt rely on these advertisers. YouTube, Facebook, and the rest of the Big Tech players, except Twitter/X, have become irrelevant as the conservative world has moved on to alternate sites.

The bad guys are fully aware of these circumstances. Some of the wackier sites are likely plants to discredit the rest. Others are just sloppy. Many have forgotten how to communicate without using the "seven dirty words" that George Carlin talked about 50 years ago. In any case, planting flat earthers, Jew haters, and writers and podcasters who make outlandish statements without primary source references plasy into the hands of those who would prevent the sheeple from straying from the mainstream disinformation sources.