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/ …1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
In 2012, @sayerjigmi was making much the same claims.https://respectfulinsolence.com/2012/01/27/vaccines-are-transhumanism/ …
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Replying to @gorskon @annamerlan and
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 -
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Heck, even the claims that
#COVID19 is not dangerous are nothing new for antivaxxers. They've been trying to deny that measles and varicella are dangerous since...well, as long as I've paid attention to the antivaccine movement.1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes - Show replies
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