If that CDC report had just included some fake citations and some crazy dietary advice, the boss would surely have approved it for publication.

From a news article, “C.D.C. Cancels Publication of Study Showing Benefits of Covid Vaccines”:

The acting head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has canceled the publication of a study that found that the Covid vaccine sharply cut the odds of hospitalizations and emergency visits last winter, a Health Department spokesman said. . . .

The study, conducted by C.D.C. scientists, calculated the effectiveness of Covid shots by looking at the vaccination status of people who had sought care at hospitals and emergency rooms. It found that vaccination cut the likelihood of emergency visits due to Covid by 50 percent and of hospitalizations by 55 percent, according to a summary of the study viewed by The New York Times.

It was scheduled to be published on March 19 in The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the C.D.C.’s flagship journal. News of its cancellation was reported earlier by The Washington Post.

Some former C.D.C. officials said it was unusual for the head of the agency to cancel a scientific publication that had already been cleared by the agency’s staff scientists and had been scheduled for publication.

So what happened?

Andrew Nixon, a spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services . . . said that assessment “identified concerns regarding the methodological approach to estimating vaccine effectiveness, and the manuscript was not accepted for publication.”

But:

“I’ve never seen a case where an article in the M.M.W.R. that got to that stage was not published,” said Dr. Michael Iademarco, who led the center that included the publication’s operations from 2014 to 2022.

And:

The approach employed in this research has been used for years by scientists at the C.D.C. and elsewhere to gauge the real-world performance of flu and Covid vaccines, said Dr. Fiona Havers, a vaccine expert who resigned from the agency in June.

No link to the report itself. Maybe the authors should anonymously email it to jeevacation@gmail.com and then it can appear in the next file dump.

It must be horrible to be working for CDC right now. They were literally shot at by an anti-vax terrorist, and now the in-house anti-vaxxers are suppressing their reports. Meanwhile the government is releasing health-related reports with fake citations and is releasing dietary guidelines which are so bad that even a supporter of these guidelines can do no better than describing them as “not crazy.”

So, that’s the way it’s going. The report with fake citations is released. The “not crazy” (actually, crazy) advice is promoted. The CDC report is suppressed. I guess it doesn’t meet the government’s high standards. Maybe if they’d thrown in some fake citations and some nutty health advice, it would’ve been approved for publication. That’s how you get “gold standard science,” right?