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Surgeon/scientist promoting science in medicine and exposing quackery. Editor of Science-Based Medicine. My opinions do NOT represent those of my employers.

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    1. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 20 Apr 2019

      David Gorski, MD, PhD Retweeted (((Dorit Reiss)))

      Here's yet another example why the VAERS database is not a reliable tool to establish adverse events as caused by vaccines or to estimate their frequency. It was never intended for that purpose. Rather, it was intended as an early warning system to alert health officials. 1/https://twitter.com/doritmi/status/1119380832999763971 …

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      (((Dorit Reiss)))Verified account @doritmi
      #VaccinesWork When someone uses #vAERS: apparently, incorrect hair bleach mixture is caused by #vaccines. pic.twitter.com/T8Neg4xVY4
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      David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 20 Apr 2019

      Unfortunately, VAERS is no longer even that useful as a "canary in the coalmine" early warning system, as it's been hopelessly distorted by vaccine litigation and antivaxers. 2/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2008/01/18/how-vaccine-litigation-distorts-the-vaer/ …

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        2. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 20 Apr 2019

          Indeed, maybe 12 years ago one pro-vaccine activist reported that a vaccine turned him into the Incredible Hulk. VAERS accepted it. If this activist had insisted on leaving his report of vaccine-induced Hulkness in the database when questioned, it would still be there. 3/

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        3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 20 Apr 2019

          Because VAERS is a passive reporting system, any symptom noticed after a vaccine can be reported, whether a vaccine might plausibly have caused it or not. That's one reason why antivaxers love VAERS so much, even as they complain about it for "underreporting." 4/

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        4. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 20 Apr 2019

          And it is true that in general passive reporting systems are subject to underreporting. That's why VAERS isn't the only system monitoring vaccine safety. 5/

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        5. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 20 Apr 2019

          There are much better active surveillance reporting systems. There's the Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD). Also the Clinical Immunization Safety Assessment Project (CISA) and @US_FDA's Post-licensure Rapid Immunization Safety Monitoring System (PRISM). 6/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2017/12/15/robert-f-kennedy-jr-anti-vaccine-not-fiercely-pro-vaccine …

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        6. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 20 Apr 2019

          Bottom line: Although antivaxers love to misuse and abuse VAERS while complaining about it as inadequate, VAERS was never intended as the be-all and end-all of vaccine safety monitoring. It serves one purpose, and there are multiple other systems to monitor vaccine safety. 7/7

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