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43. Relying on VAERS, are we? Watch out you don't turn into the Incredible Hulk

http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2008/01/how_vaccine_litigation_distorts_the_vaer.php

Unfortunately, the VAERS database is highly unreliable. The reason is that anyone can submit a report to it, and no one actually verifies the accuracy of the report. Indeed, James Laidler once tested the system by submitting a report that the influenza virus had turned him into The Incredible Hulk. The report was accepted and duly entered into the database. This report was so out of the ordinary that a representative actually contacted him and, amazingly, asked his permission to remove the report from the database (proving that it's not easy being green). If Laidler had not given it, the report of an adverse reaction in which the flu vaccine turned a man into a huge, immensely powerful green monster would still be in VAERS. Now, via Kathleen Seidel, who alerted me to this, comes more evidence of the corruption of the VAERS database. This evidence comes in the form of a study by Michael J. Goodman and James Nordin published in the most recent issue of the journal Pediatrics, in which the authors examine the question of how much of the seeming increase in autism related to vaccines reported to the VAERS database over the last several years might be related to litigation. Naturally, I couldn't resist downloading the complete article and reading it.

Anyone who relies heavily on VAERS rather than the peer-reviewed, published science shows just how little they know about how the scientific research community works.

BTW, I have a degree in biochemistry. I've wasted entire weekends reading the same misconceptions like those found in your post over the years, and despite all the evidence to the contrary it never seems to change. Funny that.