Alex Berenson has been frequently and flagrantly wrong about the pandemic.
But worse than simply being wrong, he has, on several occasions, presented misleading information about vaccines to his readers. In one telling example, Berenson in November 2021British mortality data for people aged 10-59 and wrote, “Vaccinated English adults under 60 are dying at twice the rate of unvaccinated people the same age … I don’t know how to explain this other than vaccine-caused mortality.
and British officials identified his fundamental misunderstanding: Berenson had written “age” but was referring to an age, lumping together everyone aged 10-59. Older Brits in that range had been prioritized for the vaccine, so more of them were vaccinated than the younger people. And older people, vaccinated and not, are generally more likely to die than younger people.
You get the picture: As The Atlantic noted, Berenson’s cherry-picked and incorrect interpretations of pandemic data have sown doubt about vaccine efficacy statistics, immune response to vaccines, Israel’s vaccine strategy, and even the age-appropriateness of getting vaccinated. Recently, Berenson has taken to Twitter to imply without evidence that the death of soccer journalist
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