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I read it. I want my time back.

This is the worst kind of misinformation, the one that reads "reasonable" instead of foaming at the mouth, and as such can create doubt in peer-validated articles and reports that quote from them.

"I was deceived" indeed.

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I am immediately skeptical of anything that has to use an analogy like friends stealing stuff from a party just to explain a point, especially when that point is "ignore that none of these pieces of evidence are particularly convincing on their own."

But even so I didn't really think of anything in here as "misinformation." What specifically is wrong?

Edit because apparently HN's knee-jerk downvoting applies to this instance as well: I'm triple-vaxxed and think everyone's default should be to get the vaccine unless their PCP or a specialist tells them specifically not to get it, I'm just curious what the incorrect info is other than "well it's cropped obv"

I mean, literally the first chart is so misleadingly cropped that it makes the opposite point in this article than it does in the original study.

Edit for the above comment's edit: look, if a deceptively cropped chart doesn't qualify as "misinformation" for your purposes, I guess I'll leave you to do your own research.

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