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Failure To Replicate Anti-Vaccine Poll

Published: June 23, 2024, 9:35 a.m.

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Steve Kirsch is an inventor and businessman most famous for developing the optical mouse. More recently, he\u2019s become an anti-COVID-vaccine activist. He has many different arguments on his Substack, of which one especially caught my eye:

He got Pollfish, a reputable pollster, to ask questions about people\u2019s COVID experiences, including whether they thought any family members had died from COVID or from COVID vaccines. Results here:

  • 7.5% of people said a household member had died of COVID

  • 8.5% of people said a household member had died from the vaccine.

All other statistics were normal and confirmed that this was a fair sample of the population. In particular, about 75% were vaccinated (suggesting that they weren\u2019t just polling hardcore anti-vaxxers).

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