Flu vaccines protect against heart attacks?

Lowered heart attack risk-flu vaccination link called into question | Vaccine News Daily

When you read the actual study (if you want to call it that) showing that flu vaccination protects against heart attack, you find that the researchers actually saw that there was an INCREASED risk of heart attack in flu vaccine recipients - not a surprise since this has been noted for over 40 years. Not satisfied with that result however, they massaged the numbers, adjusted for this, that and the other thing and by the end - hey, presto! Flu vaccination protects against heart attacks...for some strange reason...we can't really understand...but really, it does.

Below is a quote from an article from the VaccineNewsDaily blog describing why the results from this study should not be taken as gospel truth - or even gospel suspicion.

Wakefield is struck off for an hypothesis - but these jokers get to make front page news for publishing this rubbish. It's really a strange world, ain't it?

"Lone Simonsen, a research director in George Washington University's Department of Global Health, found similar problems and agrees with Jackson. She pointed out to CIDRAP News that adjusting for confounds skewed the results. Unadjusted data should have no effect or even a negative effect of vaccination on the risk of heart attacks.

"Given the recent elegant demonstration of how that sort of analytic adjustment can actually move unadjusted data away from the truth and create profound mismeasurement, it is clear that this paper may have been profoundly affected by the same problem," Simonsen told CIDRAP News."