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13 Sep, 3 tweets, 2 min read
“Dumpster diving” describes studies using #VAERS by authors (almost always antivaxxers) who don’t understand its limitations. Doctors fell into this trap with their study suggesting #CovidVaccine is more dangerous to children than #COVID19. sciencebasedmedicine.org/dumpster-divin…
The authors responsible for this study are not antivaccine, but they did the same sort of embarrassing dumpster diving in #VAERS that I've been deconstructing for 15 years, just with slightly better statistics. It's a bad look if you truly are not antivaccine.
To recap (as I did in my post), dumpster diving in #VAERS to try to link adverse events to vaccination, even though the database, by its very design, cannot show correlation, much less causation, is a longtime strategy of antivaxxers, again a bad look if you really are provax.

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