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I\u2019m An MD Suspended By Twitter For Tweeting A Link To A Scientific Article On COVID-19 Vaccine Lowering Sperm Counts<\/a>
\nMy suspension is yet another example of Twitter\u2019s arbitrary, Lysenkoist breaches of informed public discourse on covid-19. The suspension must be reversed, and my account restored fully intact, immediately. Please take notice and intervene Elon Musk (@elonmusk).<\/em><\/p>\n

I am a physician currently affiliated with the Brown University Center For Primary Care and Prevention, and was an Associate Professor of Medicine and Family Medicine at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University from 1997 until June, 2021. My\u00a0CV<\/a>\u00a0lists my many medical and scientific accomplishments.<\/p>\n

Among other things, as a clinical trialist and epidemiologist, I designed and completed the largest randomized, controlled trial ever conducted in chronic kidney transplant recipients.\u00a0 I have\u00a0115<\/a>\u00a0scholarly, peer-reviewed publications focused on epidemiology and clinical trials. I have testified as an expert witness in lawsuits pertaining to the Covid-19 pandemic\u2014specifically on vaccine and mask mandates\u2014while researching and\u00a0writing extensively<\/a>\u00a0on those subjects. I recently contributed to an amicus curiae\u00a0brief<\/a>\u00a0to the United States Supreme Court for the covid-19 vaccine mandate\u00a0case<\/a>\u00a0NFIB<\/em>\u00a0v.\u00a0Dept. of Labor, OSHA, et al.<\/em>\/Ohio<\/em>\u00a0v.\u00a0Dept. of Labor, OSHA, et al.<\/em>\u00a0which was cited by the\u00a0Washington Post<\/a>\u00a0.<\/p>\n

Until this morning, I had a very active\u00a0Twitter account<\/a> with a large following through which I shared scientific information, as well as my personal views.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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[Andrew Boston Twitter Banner As Of February 16, 2022]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>This morning (6\/22\/22) I awakened to learn that overnight Twitter had summarily and simultaneously locked, and then suspended my account for this \u201coffending\u201d tweet from Father\u2019s Day, 6\/19\/22:<\/p>\n

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As of this writing, my Twitter account is suspended. I have received no response so far to my appeal.<\/p>\n

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The tweet in question contained data from a recent peer reviewed publication in the journal Andrology<\/em>, with the eponymous title, \u201cCovid-19 vaccination BNT162b2 temporarily impairs semen concentration and total motile count among semen donors<\/strong><\/a>\u201d.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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[Full article available at https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/epdf\/10.1111\/andr.13209<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The Journal Andrology is highly respected and published through a joint effort of American and European scientific associations:<\/p>\n

The study was a straightforward, serial analysis of young male Israeli semen donors evaluating the potential impact of Pfizer\u2019s covid-19 mRNA vaccine on their sperm concentration (count), and related functional measures,\u00a0\u201c<\/em>15-45 [Time 1],75-120 [T2], and over 150 days after [T3] vaccination.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

What did the investigators find?<\/p>\n

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Again, quoting their publication<\/a>,\u00a0verbatim<\/strong>, based upon what\u00a0the authors defined<\/strong>,\u00a0a priori<\/em>, as the primary statistical analysis (i.e., \u201c\u00a0[a] 1) generalized estimated equation model (GEE) was used for repeated measures analysis,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0which is indeed the most appropriate method!):<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\u00a0<\/em>\u201csperm concentration was significantly lower due to decrease of -15.4% (confidence interval -25.5%\u20133.9%) compared to [Time zero\/baseline] T0 (p=0.01). Moreover, [total motile count; how sperm moved] TMC percentage change reduction of 22.1% was significantly lower compared to T0 (confidence interval -35% \u2013 -6.6%, p=0.007) as well. Although concentration and TMC were reduced also on T3, these values did not reach statistical significance.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If anything the text of my 6\/19\/22 tweet\u00a0understated<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0the evidence of a possible longer term, ~ 5-month follow-up decline, calling it a \u201crebound\u201d when \u201cconcentration and TMC were\u00a0reduced also<\/strong>\u00a0on T3, [though] these values did not reach statistical significance.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0In other words, the trend was toward a persistent decline, although it did not \u201creach statistical significance<\/em>,\u201d but may well have been evident, and \u201cstatistically significant,\u201d merely by studying more subjects.<\/p>\n

Finally, my offending tweet added the truthful observation that no data were presented on the effects of booster vaccinations, and asked whether boostering might cause another cycle of decline in the sperm counts and functional measures only studied in relation to the initial vaccination.<\/p>\n

My suspension is yet another example of Twitter\u2019s arbitrary,\u00a0Lysenkoist<\/a>\u00a0breaches of informed public discourse on covid-19. The suspension must be reversed, and my account restored fully intact, immediately.<\/p>\n

Please take notice and intervene Elon Musk (@elonmusk<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m An MD Suspended By Twitter For Tweeting A Link To A Scientific Article On COVID-19 Vaccine Lowering Sperm Counts My suspension is yet another example of Twitter\u2019s arbitrary, Lysenkoist breaches of informed public discourse on covid-19. The suspension must be reversed, and my account restored fully intact, immediately. Please take notice and intervene Elon … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,41,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deceit","category-health-medicine","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82691,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82690\/revisions\/82691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}