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Hansen and Picker's HIV/SIV vaccine: New Analysis of the Paper-blunders??

A high profile paper by Picker and colleagues that was publicized widely now has been panned for its lack of proper statistical analysis, cherry picking of data etc etc. The anonymous writer and analyst commented on PubPeer that the Paper has several holes: The link is as follows: https://pubpeer.com/publications/C8D982830E18E0D289F0CF103876E3#fb21451 I am copying and pasting the entire comment here and wish the readers to follow up on these comments and post their views: The comment is as follows: HIV continues to bear a heavy toll on society with a disproportionate number of infections and deaths occurring in developing countries. Development of a safe and effective vaccine is clearly needed and several vaccine approaches are in clinical and preclinical development. Those of us in the HIV field hope to see an effective vaccine be developed that will prevent HIV infection and one of the most promising candidates to date is a T cell vaccine that utilizes recombinant rh