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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@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!4 replies 3 retweets 47 likesShow this thread -
Replying to @annamerlan @shayla__love
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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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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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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Replying to @gorskon @shayla__love
We linked to one of your blogs in there! Everything old really is new again, when it comes to bullshit anti-vax claims, isn't it
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Replying to @annamerlan @shayla__love
Sorry. I didn't click on most of the links...I tend to be a bit lazy that way...
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Replying to @gorskon @shayla__love
appreciate your work! maybe someday they will come up with a genuinely new idea for you to debunk
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Replying to @annamerlan @shayla__love
Somehow, I doubt it. Even though most might assume that this is a new claim of antivaxxers, based on
#COVID19 vaccines being mRNA-based, even their claim that#CovidVaccine will "alter" or "reprogram" your DNA is NOT new. Antivaxxers have long made that claim for other vaccines.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
Indeed, in 2017, @BusyDrT was claiming that DNA vaccines were subverting evolution by altering your genes. https://respectfulinsolence.com/2017/04/28/quoth-an-antivaxer-dna-vaccines-are-contaminating-our-dna-in-the-name-of-transhumanism/ …
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Replying to @gorskon @annamerlan and
In 2012,
@sayerjigmi was making much the same claims.https://respectfulinsolence.com/2012/01/27/vaccines-are-transhumanism/ …1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
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In fact, every single antivaccine trope that's been promulgated during the
#COVID19 pandemic, be it about#CovidVaccine or the disease itself, is not new. I've yet to find one that I hadn't written about when I first saw it last year.2 replies 1 retweet 11 likes - Show replies
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