>While the scientists found significantly more trial participants who received the vaccine reported adverse events, nearly a third of participants who received the placebo also reported at least one adverse event
ignoring the vaccine group with actual negative adverse effects to simply attack vaccine hesitancy
>adverse events among the placebo group dipped to 32 percent reporting any systemic events and 12 percent reporting any local effects.
>In contrast, participants who received the vaccine reported more side effects, with 61 percent reporting systemic adverse events and 73 percent reporting local adverse events
>>The researchers calculated that nocebo accounted for nearly 52 percent of the side effects reported after the second dose.
researchers are simply downplaying those that were impacted with adverse effects as "nocebo" because they know it's the only way their meta-analysis will get any coverage
I know someone who was convinced she had covid q2 2020, had panic attacks which felt like she couldn’t breath and that made her cough. As far as we know she never had it to this day, and she laughs about it now, but she was absolutely convinced she had it and looked ill indeed after a week or so.
>While the scientists found significantly more trial participants who received the vaccine reported adverse events, nearly a third of participants who received the placebo also reported at least one adverse event
ignoring the vaccine group with actual negative adverse effects to simply attack vaccine hesitancy
>adverse events among the placebo group dipped to 32 percent reporting any systemic events and 12 percent reporting any local effects.
>In contrast, participants who received the vaccine reported more side effects, with 61 percent reporting systemic adverse events and 73 percent reporting local adverse events
>>The researchers calculated that nocebo accounted for nearly 52 percent of the side effects reported after the second dose.
researchers are simply downplaying those that were impacted with adverse effects as "nocebo" because they know it's the only way their meta-analysis will get any coverage