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/ …1 reply 2 retweets 10 likesShow 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.) 6/1 reply 2 retweets 12 likesShow this thread -
Because I'm a benevolent science advocate, I'll provide the answer for
@TVRauth. 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). 7/1 reply 2 retweets 12 likesShow this thread -
What antivaxers like
@TVRauth don't understand is that#VAERS was never meant to be the be-all and end-all of vaccine safety surveillance. It functions more like a "canary in the coalmine," to identify concerns that need to be followed up on using more rigorous methods. 8/1 reply 2 retweets 12 likesShow this thread -
Because
#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. 9/1 reply 2 retweets 10 likesShow 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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I could go on, because I've written about several of these "dumpster diving" studies over the years, but non-antivaxers will get the idea. I do thank
@TVRauth for amusing the hell out of me with her assumption that I don't know what the#VAERS database is.
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Is the Blakes 7 image actually relevant? (Don't want to have to read her stuff...)
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It's just the default image for posts without a featured image. Many old posts of mine (>4 years or so, maybe even less) don't have a featured image because it just wasn't as important then for social media purposes. I don't have time to go back and assign images to them.
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