Preprints.org on Wednesday retracted a paper by Children’s Health Defense scientists who analyzed data from the Louisiana Department of Health. The analysis showed that infants vaccinated in their second month of life were more likely to die in their third month than unvaccinated infants.

Lead author Karl Jablonowski, Ph.D., called the retraction “an act of censorship.” He told The Defender:

“There are 318 members of the Advisory Board for Preprints. Not a single one of them has published on vaccine safety. Not a single one of them has published on infant mortality. Not a single one of them would have been chosen to peer-review our article. Its retraction, therefore, cannot be a peer-reviewed nor a scientific decision.”

Retraction is an important tool for the scientific community, which needs the ability to edit itself, especially when “negligent or bad actors are at work,” Jablonowski said. “But retracting is also a tool of the censors, by those who muzzle scientific discourse,” he said.

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