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An n=1 study on a highly politicized issue is flamebait. It shouldn't be, but this is the reality.

> An n=1 study on a highly politicized issue is flamebait.

It still needs investigating, you do no side favors if you just bury the findings and prevent all discussions.

The health of this site depends on curation of stories to promote thoughtful discussion. Doing either "side" favors does not factor as much as you might want.

Investigating would be looking at a body of research. How is cherry picking one person's experience doing any favors for objectivity?

You have a 14 year old with no known issues just keeling over and dying from vaccine. I don't think she's was first, but it's a first clear cut case.

Even if it tells you nothing about vaccine, it might tell you plenty about how immune system works, if just some DNA fragment can kill you.

Precisely. It's not a study. It's a case study that leverages post hoc ergo propter hoc to suggest the vaccine caused the issue. We don't know the issue wouldn't have happened anyway without the prior event because this is an account of one damn person.

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