I fail to see what benefits there are here. Are citizen biostatisticians going to verify the data and post about how everything checks out? That is quite naiv

I fail to see what benefits there are here. Are citizen biostatisticians going to verify the data and post about how everything checks out? That is quite naive seeing how the data from VAERS is being presented totally out of context in intellectually dishonest ways. Aside: the big problem with VAERS is that you do not have a denominator. Not to mention reporting biases, and the abysmal quality and assessment value of reports. Even if you did have some cadre if motivated, ethical citizen biostatisticians any type of post hoc analysis would be suspect and epistemologically weaker than the original statistical analysis because it would have been designed with prior knowledge of the data. Compare to the original study where the statistical analysis plan was prospectively designed and publicly disclosed BEFORE any patient enrollment or data collection.