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ArticleOncotarget2026

Censorship in science: How publishing decisions could have shaped the perceived "general consensus" on COVID-19 vaccine safety and efficacy.

Panagis Polykretis, Janci C Lindsay, Patrizia Gentilini, Nafuko Konishi, Masanori Fukushima

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Article in Oncotarget, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Panagis Polykretis“Allineare Sanità e Salute” Foundation, Milano 20131, Italy.
Janci C LindsayToxicology and Molecular Biology, Toxicology Support Services, LLC., Sealy, TX 77474, USA.
Patrizia Gentilini“Allineare Sanità e Salute” Foundation, Milano 20131, Italy.
Nafuko KonishiOsaka Metropolitan University School of Medicine, Osaka 545-0051, Japan.
Masanori FukushimaLearning Health Society Institute, Nagoya 450-0003, Japan.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Copyright: © 2026 Polykretis et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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COVID-19COVID-19 VaccinesPublishingConsensusHumansPandemicsSARS-CoV-2COVID-19 VaccinescancerCOVID-19haematopoietic malignanciesmRNA COVID-19 vaccine

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PMID41954948
PMCPMC12935075

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