A congressperson known for sharing anti-vaccine conspiracy theories accused a social media platform of censorship after it flagged an abstract published in an American Heart Association (AHA) journal. The study claimed to have found an association between mRNA vaccines and heart damage. The abstract is not from a full study and was not conducted by the AHA; it is a non-peer-reviewed research poster that was presented at an AHA meeting last month. The abstract was heavily criticized by researchers for its lack of statistical evidence to support its claims and has since been flagged by the AHA due to concerns about the quality of the research.
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