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Aug 21, 2022, 6 tweets

Better late than never. 🙄 Clare Craig spent most of 2020 claiming we were in a "false positive pseudo epidemic", deleted all her tweets when it became clear she was horribly wrong, then moved on to talking rubbish about vaccines.

She's produced a never-ending stream of wrong...

Given Clare Craig's spectacular ability to misinterpret data (all too often because she just hadn't bothered to read the footnotes), it would be easy to chalk this up to incompetence.

But thanks to #hartleaks we know that at least some of the time she was doing it on purpose...

But after two years of spreading mis- and disinformation about the pandemic and vaccines, Clare Craig has finally joined fellow HART members such as Tony Hinton, Michael Yeadon (his alt account) and Joel Smalley (twice) in getting kicked off Twitter for breaking their rules.

Unsurprisingly Clare Craig's fellow HART members can't understand why she was removed from Twitter for repeatedly breaking the rules, while their friend Bev Turner inadvertently makes a good case for why Twitter should have banned her much earlier.

Meanwhile the fact that Aseem Malhotra and Jay Bhattacharya think Clare Craig has "impeccable scientific integrity" and that her removal somehow "impoverishes the discussion" probably says more about them than her.

Clare Craig's "contribution to the discussion" included false claims about trials of covid vaccines for children, amplified by notorious anti-vaxxers Children's Health Defense.

This video explains how, as usual, she had misread or misrepresented a study:

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