> This paper essentially argues that the risk of myocarditis in under-40 males getting 2 shots is greater (perhaps much greater) than the risk of getting it from COVID. There have been similar studies before, but none (that I saw) broken down by age and sex like this.

This is especially fascinating to me because for months I noticed that whenever I or anyone else would bring up the fear of myocarditis from the vax (which I ended up not experiencing, by the way, that I know of - and I got two shots of Moderna which I specifically chose because it has more antibodies) a slew of people would show up to admonish, bring up the typical "anti-vaxxer!" arguments, and state that the risk of getting it from COVID was far far greater. I recall every media article on the subject stating the same thing.

So where were these people and the media getting their information from, or were they just making it up?

And if the latter is the case, it's when people and the media do things like this that people either begin to distrust science more, or use it as another example of why science shouldn't be treated like religion and how the media and people picks and chooses which scientific information to share with the public to fit the narrative they're pushing. It's just sad all around.