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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Perhaps the most ridiculous example occurred six years ago, when antivaxxers pointed to a 1969 episode of "The Brady Bunch" in which all the kids catch the measles to claim that people back then thought measles was no big deal because it wasn't dangerous.https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/appeal-to-brady-bunch-vaccine-fallacy/ …
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I note that in that post I also discussed a really despicable antivaccine trope that's risen to the fore during
#COVID19, namely the shrugging of one's shoulders at the deaths caused by the disease as "not a big deal." Antivaxxers did it for measles then and do it for COVID now. - Show replies
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