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Re:Is the US's Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System broken? by giantg2 on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @02:29PM (#38281233)
"The problem with articles of this nature is that anecdotes are not data."

That could be an issue with this specific article (doesn't really seem like it to me). However, pubmed is filled with studies about how junky and underreported the data is. Basically, the system is only intended to find gross trends and it still largely does that with the junky data. It won't capture the extremely rare stuff though.

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Re:Is the US's Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System broken? by SoftTalker on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @03:27PM (#38281980)
Any individual observation is an anecdote.

Enough anecdotes become data.

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Re:Is the US's Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System broken? by giantg2 on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @03:49PM (#38282260)
Generally agree, but want to add that it depends on how those anecdotes are tracked. They knight not end up as data, bit rather stereotypes (founded or unfounded) if not recorded properly. Take the experiences and opinions of vaccine injury lawyers.
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