{"id":7904,"date":"2025-01-29T07:59:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T12:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=7904"},"modified":"2025-01-30T20:42:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T01:42:33","slug":"bad-science-academics-tear-apart-albertas-2-million-report-on-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/bad-science-academics-tear-apart-albertas-2-million-report-on-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Bad science\u2019: Academics tear apart Alberta\u2019s $2-million report on COVID"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>False narratives in a new $2-million report on COVID 19 in Alberta send Albertans the wrong signals, said a former chief medical officer of health for the province.<\/p>\n<p>An adjunct professor at the University of Alberta\u2019s School of Public Health, Dr. James Talbot said the 269-page report released late last Friday cherry-picks information and includes unproven ideas, including that the vaccine is ineffective and potentially harmful.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve given literally billions of doses of this vaccine around the world with the best surveillance we\u2019ve ever had. This is one of the safest, most effective vaccines that we\u2019ve ever had,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>False narratives in a new $2-million report on COVID 19 in Alberta send Albertans the wrong signals, said a former chief medical officer of health for the province.<\/p>\n<p>An adjunct professor at the University of Alberta\u2019s School of Public Health, Dr. James Talbot said the 269-page report released late last Friday cherry-picks information and includes unproven ideas, including that the vaccine is ineffective and potentially harmful.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve given literally billions of doses of this vaccine around the world with the best surveillance we\u2019ve ever had. This is one of the safest, most effective vaccines that we\u2019ve ever had,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/bad-science-academics-tear-apart-albertas-2-million-report-on-covid\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Bad science\u2019: Academics tear apart Alberta\u2019s $2-million report on COVID<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[315,1210,375,81,96,18,35,14,130,15],"class_list":["post-7904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-alberta","tag-alberta-government","tag-anti-vaccine-movement","tag-anti-vaxxers","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-disinformation","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-science-denial","tag-vaccines","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7905,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7904\/revisions\/7905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}