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Monday, February 06, 2006Not only an anyone access it and enter reports without verification, but there is no denominator, which means testing for causality is not even possible with VAERS [the acronym for the database - ed.] Worse, as the authors point out, the rate of reporting of autism as a complication of vaccines is easily influenced by numerous external factors. For example, the authors pointed out that 75% of the autism reports in VAERS between 1990 and 2001 were received not long after the publication of the now utterly and completely discredited Wakefield study that claimed to find a link between the MMR vaccine and autism and that 2/3 were received after the American Academy of Pediatrics recommendation that thimerosal be removed from vaccines. The original paper he refers to is here ( or at least its abstract is.) Sounds like the reporting system needs to be tightened up a bit. Especially if someone can enter that their flu vaccine changed them into the Incredible Hulk. posted by Sydney on 2/06/2006 08:03:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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