Oh, this will be fun. An Antivaxer thinks I've never heard of #VAERS.Apparently she's blissfully unaware that I've only been writing about #VAERS for around 14 years or so. Time to educate her. 1/https://twitter.com/TVRauth/status/1123576310981378049 …
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Indeed, if this activist had insisted on leaving his report of vaccine-induced Hulkness in the database when questioned, it would still be there, warning antivaxers that the flu vaccine might turn you into the Hulk. 4/
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This is, of course, why antivaxers like
@TVRauth love to point to#VAERS. So do attorneys trying to sue for "vaccine injury." (Yes, I wrote this 11 years ago.) 5/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2008/01/18/how-vaccine-litigation-distorts-the-vaer/ …Show this thread -
Now here's a question for
@TVRauth. Can she name the active surveillance systems in place to monitor vaccine safety in a far more rigorous manner? (If she clicked on the link to my Twitter thread above, she should be able to, but I bet that she didn't bother.) 6/Show this thread -
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#VAERS is so easily manipulated by antivaxers, who've mounted campaigns to have parents report their children's autism, antivaxers love o dumpster dive it to produce crappy studies with bogus inflated risks of vaccine-related harms. 9/Show this thread -
Indeed, I've been writing about such "dumpster diving" for 13+ years now. Here's an oldie by Mark and David Geier. 10/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2006/03/06/the-geiers-go-dumpsterdiving-y-1/ …
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Here's a more recent example of dumpster diving by Stephanie Seneff. 11/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2012/11/20/dumpster-diving-in-the-vaers-database-again/ …
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