Bret Weinstein is claiming that the COVID vaccine killed 17 million people. This is based on a non-peer reviewed study by fired former professor Denis Rancourt, famous for his contrarian (eg climate change denial) views. Let's go over why this is all nonsense.
1) Rancourt's analysis is what we call "ecological". He looked at the excess mortality in the population during the time of initial vaccine rollout. Despite his strong claims, you cannot by definition make causal claims based on ecological data.
2) During the period of vaccine rollout, a minority of people in each studied population was vaccinated. And he did not only look at deaths of vaccinated people, but of all people. No way to tell if the deaths weren't actually all or mostly among the unvaccinated.
3) The rises in excess deaths actually correlate more closely to spikes in COVID cases and deaths than they do to vaccination rates: https://perma.cc/L7FK-558X
4) Other (more rigorous) ecological analyses show that excess mortality is actually LESS in populations with greater COVID vaccine coverage: https://pandem-ic.com/excess-mortality-and-vaccination/
5) All signs point to the excess deaths identified by Rancourt to be due to actual COVID infection, and not to vaccination. To conclude otherwise is to discount the overwhelming heft of all other published evidence and analyses.
All of this shows either what a weak and gullible scientist Weinstein is, or how he is thigh-deep in the grift game.
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