so 130,000 deaths?
so 130,000 deaths?
Probably more like 300,000
Probably more like 300,000
And once again, I drag out citations. VAERS is a self-reporting database. Anyone can enter info. Anyone. And it is not fact-checked. A guy made headlines because he said that a vaccine turned him into the Incredible Hulk and it made it into the database.
So you could say that you got vaccinated and your whole family died of the heebie-jeebies and that information would be in a database. You could go do it right now. And people on Voat were bragging about entering fake data. And then, later on, someone analyzes that like it a fact. Not realizing that self-reported, non-reviewed data is bunk.
From Wikipedia:
As it is based on submissions by the public, VAERS is susceptible to unverified reports, misattribution, underreporting, and inconsistent data quality.3 Raw, unverified data from VAERS has often been used by the anti-vaccine community to justify misinformation regarding the safety of vaccines; it is generally not possible to find out from VAERS data if a vaccine caused an adverse event, or how common the event might be.4
Anyone who uses this data as basis for scientific findings is being deliberately misleading.
And once again, I drag out citations. VAERS is a self-reporting database. Anyone can enter info. Anyone. And it is not fact-checked. A guy made headlines because he said that a vaccine turned him into the Incredible Hulk and it made it into the database.
So you could say that you got vaccinated and your whole family died of the heebie-jeebies and that information would be in a database. You could go do it right now. And people on Voat were bragging about entering fake data. And then, later on, someone analyzes that like it a fact. Not realizing that self-reported, non-reviewed data is bunk.
From Wikipedia:
>As it is based on submissions by the public, VAERS is susceptible to unverified reports, misattribution, underreporting, and inconsistent data quality.3 Raw, unverified data from VAERS has often been used by the anti-vaccine community to justify misinformation regarding the safety of vaccines; it is generally not possible to find out from VAERS data if a vaccine caused an adverse event, or how common the event might be.4
Anyone who uses this data as basis for scientific findings is being deliberately misleading.
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