Keep geiger counters handy - Scientists spot fishy patterns in data about Russian "COVID vaccine"

[ck4829]

Addressing the editor of The Lancet, the international peer-reviewed medical journal in which Moscow’s Gamaleya Institute published its early-stage trial results, the scientists said they saw patterns in the data that looked “highly unlikely”.

The letter, published on the personal blog page of one of the signatories, said the Phase I/II trial results data showed multiple participants reporting identical antibody levels.

“On the ground of simple probabilistic evaluations the fact of observing so many data points preserved among different experiments is highly unlikely,” the open letter said.

However, the scientists said they were basing their conclusions on summaries of the Russian trial result data, published in the journal, rather than the original data itself.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-vaccine-let/some-scientists-spot-unlikely-patterns-in-russia-vaccine-data-letter-idUSKBN2602Q5

And you scientists might want to stay away from 4th story windows too, let's not see reports about mysterious falls, stay safe, yeah?

[Squinch]

1. Shocked. Shocked, I tell you.

[soothsayer]

2. I recall a US Covid study/paper that got busted for cutting and pasting the same data over and over

Just when I was all set to trust mother Russia.... not.

[Mersky]

3. The Russian institute's pushback is gross

Would be nice if the institute had answered with data instead of snark. Scientists should speak through science, not ad hominems about, “pleasing Italian experts.”