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So are vaccinations causing excess deaths? Just remember that correlations to not imply causation. To understand why, imagine repeating this analysis using a sliding window with a width of one year. In the last year, you will see an increase in excess deaths and vaccinations. It does not imply vaccinations cause excess deaths. The causation goes the other way... the excess deaths caused the vaccinations

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yep... Lets say someone says bananas help with covid, so when there is an increase in excess deaths, people start eating it, afraid of going bananas. You just cant later see the bananas graph and say "oh bananas!". :)

That’s right. You can’t get at causation by passively looking at data. You need an intervention. One stage of a clinical trial looks at safety by giving some people the vaccine and other people a placebo. You then look for excess deaths in the vaccinated people. The author is ignoring crucial clinical trial interventions and instead using shoddy correlations to passively imply causations that do not exist.

The people that volunteered for the clinical trials took the real risk and this article is a disservice to their altruism

There are a good number of examples that show the problem with correlation being miss understood.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/blog.statwolf.com/does-eating-c...

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