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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. Anna Merlan‏Verified account @annamerlan Feb 3

      To sow COVID vax fears, anti-vaccine groups are (once again) misusing a federal database where people can report adverse events following a vaccine. Read more about this, and side effects that include gunshot wounds and becoming the Incredible Hulkhttps://www.vice.com/en/article/qjpmp7/anti-vaxxers-misuse-federal-data-to-falsely-claim-covid-vaccines-are-dangerous …

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    2. Anna Merlan‏Verified account @annamerlan Feb 3

      @shayla__love and I had been talking about the ways VAERS data is misused for like a year, and last week, in our irritation, we accidentally wrote a whole article about it!

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      David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Feb 3
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      I've been writing about the misuse of VAERS data by antivaxxers since at least 2006. I even coined a term for it: Dumpster diving.https://respectfulinsolence.com/2006/03/06/the-geiers-go-dumpsterdiving-y-1/ …

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        2. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Feb 3
          Replying to @gorskon @annamerlan @shayla__love

          Then, in 2008 I noted how lawyers were gaming VAERS by encouraging plaintiffs to report that their child's autism had first been diagnosed after vaccination.https://respectfulinsolence.com/2008/01/18/how-vaccine-litigation-distorts-the-vaer/ …

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        3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Feb 3
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          Basically, it's a hoary old antivaccine trope, antivaxxers misusing and abusing the VAERS database in order to try to imply that the apparent correlation between reported adverse events and vaccines was actually causation.https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/covid-19-vaccines-as-dangerous-continue-apace-vaers-edition/ …

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        1. swani74‏ @swani741 Feb 5
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          Harvard did a study for the government that showed only 1% of side effects were reported. Likely because some were no big deal or because people didn’t know about VAERS or didn’t know what they were experiencing could be related to the vaccine.

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        2. swani74‏ @swani741 Feb 5
          Replying to @gorskon @annamerlan @shayla__love

          The abusers are always those with power, not the powerless. Please don’t try to gaslight everyone into thinking that the pharmaceutical industry is being “abused” by people who may feel they or their children have experienced an injury from one of their liability free products.

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        3. 🅹 ( 🚰 🚩 🏴) is building stuff.‏ @0xKruzr Feb 10
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          it's not the pharma industry who are being abused. it's the people who are being scared into not vaccinating for no good reason. "you have a tiny chance of an allergic reaction" is not a good reason.

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        1. Bethann Morris‏ @Bethann37 Feb 3
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          It's especially aggrieving since a close and judicious reading of the data can yield useful stuff. Bad money driving out the good -- it's the story of our times.

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