(Next post, I will look at an example of obtuse writing about science.)

Clare Craig is a co-chair of the Health Advisory and Recovery Team (HART). She looked at a paper in the journal, Nature, about cardiovascular problems from covid. First I read Craig’s paper. I didn’t really understand the problems at first. It looked to me like there were more myocarditis problems with covid than with vaccines.

I wanted to check Craig’s numbers. She had referenced the Supplementary Appendix, so I pulled it up and searched for Craig’s numbers. No hits. What the hell?

Craig had also referenced a specific table, so I found it and looked at the units and the numbers. Craig had used events per million, while the paper had used units of events per thousand. Oh. Craig had changed the units so that a simple search wouldn’t find them. You had to go…