We'll start, as is tradition, with The Angel of Death's most recent Bullshit Board:
And we'll focus on this part, specifically:
The text reads:
American Heart Association: We conclude that the mRNA vaccines dramatically increases inflammation of the endothelium, and T-cell infiltration of cardiac muscle and may account for the observation of increased thrombosis, cardiomyopathy, and other vascular events following vaccination.
Oh my god! Did the American Heart Association actually say that? That's huge, if it's true, right?? I mean the AHA must have said it since it's in quotation marks, am I right?
Wendy Bell, award winning journalist, would never ever misquote such a prestigious organization as the American Heart Association to make a cheap point, would she? She'd be sure to track down the quotation to make sure it was actually solid, wouldn't she?
Any long term reader of this blog will already know the answer to those questions.
But what about that quote? Where's it from? Is it an official pronouncement? Some policy statement? A warning to the public? A paragraph from a peer-reviewed paper? An accurate assessment of what the AHA believes?
And that would be a hearty no for each. Wendy failed to do her own research as the AHA did not say what Wendy said they said.
And it has been the case for a number of months.
Facthcheck - December 21, 2021:
The COVID-19 vaccines administered in the U.S. are not known to increase the risk of heart attack. But social media posts are misinterpreting an abstract in an American Heart Association journal as proof that the vaccine kills. The publisher later issued an “expression of concern” about the abstract “until a suitable correction can be published.”And:
Yet, several online and social media posts claim mRNA COVID-19 vaccines “dramatically increase” heart attack risk, based on a misrepresented abstract published in the American Heart Association’s journal Circulation on Nov. 8.
The abstract, which by nature is a brief summary and in this case represented preliminary research that is not peer-reviewed, concludes that “mRNA vacs dramatically increase inflammation on the endothelium and T cell infiltration of cardiac muscle and may account for the observations of increased thrombosis, cardiomyopathy, and other vascular events following vaccination.” The abstract is not part of a full scientific paper, and was presented as a poster at AHA’s Scientific Sessions online program on Nov. 13. None of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines have been linked to thrombosis.
And you know what the AHA actually did to regarding this abstract?
Here's the next sentence from Factcheck:
After its publication, AHA was notified about “potential errors” in the abstract, and on Nov. 24, the journal published an ‘expression of concern’ stating it “may not be reliable.”
Take a look:
Soon after publication of the above abstract in Circulation, it was brought to the American Heart Association Committee on Scientific Sessions Program’s attention that there are potential errors in the abstract. Specifically, there are several typographical errors, there is no data in the abstract regarding myocardial T-cell infiltration, there are no statistical analyses for significance provided, and the author is not clear that only anecdotal data was used.
See that, Wendy? That's what the American Heart Association said.
If you don't like Factcheck, Wendy, there's always Reuters:
A research abstract cited by commentators as proof that COVID-19 vaccines increase a person’s risk of heart disease has raised multiple concerns from experts.
The 319-word abstract, published in the American Heart Association journal Circulation, claims its research has found mRNA vaccines “dramatically increase” inflammation in endothelium cells and T cell infiltration in the heart.
And:
However, multiple experts have raised criticisms of the abstract, which does not detail a full study and has not been peer-reviewed.
And if not Factcheck or Reuters then how about this:
And so on.In a video clip, Vernon Coleman, who is a noted spreader of health misinformation, claims that he can prove that the COVID-19 jab is "murder." As evidence, he cites the abstract of a paper from the American Heart Association's (AHA) journal Circulation. Coleman reads from the abstract of the paper, which says, “We conclude that the mRNA vaccine dramatically increases inflammation of the endothelium, T-cell infiltration of cardiac muscle, and may account for the observation of increased thrombosis, cardiomyopathy, and other vascular events following vaccination.” He claims this is proof that mRNA vaccines damage the heart.
The paper he is citing is not a published paper at all - it is a poster presentation from an online conference. Posters are a way of advertising talks about scientific work during conferences, and are neither peer-reviewed nor published in the same way that actual scientific papers are. This abstract has no published data, no references, and several spelling errors.
Since the abstract was published on November 8, the AHA has updated the abstract with an Expression of Concern...
Took me about 20 seconds to find all this, Wendy. OK, maybe a minute.
Whenever Wendy Bell steers someone away from the vaccines, she's putting that person's health at risk.
Wendy Bell, the Angel of Death.
