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#179: Science Strong & Fragile (Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying DarkHorse Livestream)

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The Effect of Placebos on COVID Rates

When you run the numbers as if it was a placebo, you get exactly the same supposed efficacy. The number of COVID cases for unvaccinated people and the number of CO VID cases for vaccinated people approach one another very quickly. And if you take out the mathematical sleight of hand, basically all of the evidence of efficacy begins to fall apart. But what happens is that efficacy drops off because it's an artifact of what you got in the first phase.

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