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Well. "medalerts.org" is the "National Vaccine Information Center", a notorious source of vaccine misinformation, pushing the thoroughly discredited theory that

Well. "medalerts.org" is the "National Vaccine Information Center", a notorious source of vaccine misinformation, pushing the thoroughly discredited theory that vaccines cause autism, and lately -- surprise -- being widely criticized as one of the worst pushers of Covid-19 misinformation. A substantial amount of their funding comes from Joseph Mercola, which, well, yikes. (Why I say "yikes" is left as an exercise for the reader.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Vaccine_Information_Center https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Vaccine_Information_C... But VAERS (the "Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System") is from the CDC, right? Great! Except that it's an open database -- anyone can submit a report and there is no verification. While this doesn't make it useless, it does make it ripe for abuse. "One of the main limitations of VAERS data is that it cannot determine if the vaccine caused the reported adverse event," cautions the FAQ on the VAERS website itself. A lot of information back in the vaccines-cause-autism scare days was literally being added to VAERS by personal injury lawyers. https://www.politifact.com/article/2021/may/03/vaers-governments-vaccine-safety-database-critical/ https://www.politifact.com/article/2021/may/03/vaers-governm...

panny 5y ago
>a notorious source of vaccine misinformation Are you suggesting their information isn't the same as the CDC? Have any proof of it? >But VAERS (the "Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System") is from the CDC, right? Great! Except that it's an open database -- anyone can submit a report and there is no verification. Again, do you have any proof that there is a conspiracy to fill the VAERS database with fake data about covid vaccines? Or is this all just a theory of yours? There's no evidence that what you are saying is true. There is a hospital bill that has to be paid, due to a covid vaccination in my family. That's hard evidence for me that covid vaccines are not safe.
- bmn__ 5y ago
  Nothing is safe. It's always a trade-off. I guess people are downvoting you because they think you misjudge the trade-off.

panny 5y ago

>a notorious source of vaccine misinformation Are you suggesting their information isn't the same as the CDC? Have any proof of it? >But VAERS (the "Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System") is from the CDC, right? Great! Except that it's an open database -- anyone can submit a report and there is no verification. Again, do you have any proof that there is a conspiracy to fill the VAERS database with fake data about covid vaccines? Or is this all just a theory of yours? There's no evidence that what you are saying is true. There is a hospital bill that has to be paid, due to a covid vaccination in my family. That's hard evidence for me that covid vaccines are not safe.

bmn__ 5y ago
Nothing is safe. It's always a trade-off. I guess people are downvoting you because they think you misjudge the trade-off.