SUMMARY GUIDE
0:00 - Introduction
1:00 - Problems With VAERs and Yellow Card
3:39 - Correlation Doesn't Imply Causation
9:17 - Responses by Covid-Contrarians
14:40 - Dr. Anne McCloskey
SOURCE GUIDE
1] How To Report A Side Effect From A Medicine - A Yellow Card Guide For Patients [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrUHlhgVAE4]
2] VAERs Data [https://vaers.hhs.gov/data.html]
3] Guide To Interpreting VAERS data [https://vaers.hhs.gov/data/dataguide.html]
4] Chelation & Autism (James Laidler) [https://web.archive.org/web/20060427200248/http://neurodiversity.com/weblog/article/14/chelation-autism]
5] Unverified reports of vaccine side-effects in VAERs aren’t the smoking guns portrayed by right-wing media outlets - they can offer insight into vaccine hesitancy [https://theconversation.com/unverified-reports-of-vaccine-side-effects-in-vaers-arent-the-smoking-guns-portrayed-by-right-wing-media-outlets-they-can-offer-insight-into-vaccine-hesitancy-166401]
6] Quantifying The Effect Of Wakefield et al (1998) on skepticism about MMR vaccine safety in the U.S. [https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0256395]
7] How Vaccine Litigation distorts the VAERs database [https://respectfulinsolence.com/2008/01/18/how-vaccine-litigation-distorts-the-vaer/]
8] Vaccine adverse event reporting system reporting source: a possible source of bias in longitudinal studies [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16452357/]
9] Coronavirus vaccine - weekly summary of yellow card reporting [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-vaccine-adverse-reactions/coronavirus-vaccine-summary-of-yellow-card-reporting]
10] Correlation doesn’t imply causation [https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_causation]
11] Debunking anti-vaccine arguments: VAERS, Package inserts, and the VICP, do not prove that vaccines are dangerous [https://thelogicofscience.com/2016/07/25/vaers-package-inserts-and-the-vicp-do-not-prove-that-vaccines-are-dangerous/]
12] Causality Assessment Of Adverse Events Reported To VAERs [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X12014181?via%3Dihub]
13] The influencer Dominique De Silva had an extreme adverse reaction to the covid vaccine and now suffers from tremors and paralysis [https://www.logically.ai/factchecks/library/83a31d81]
14] The Curse Of Incidental Ilnesses: Seen as side effects to Covid Vaccinations, ailments may have little to do with them [https://www.statnews.com/2020/12/28/chance-illnesses-after-covid-19-vaccinations-could-test-public-confidence-even-if-the-problems-are-unrelated/]
15] Fact Check: Bells Palsy among Covid-19 trial participants likely unrelated to Pfizer vaccine [https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/12/15/fact-check-bells-palsy-likely-unrelated-pfizer-covid-19-vaccine/6532985002/]
16] Coronavirus vaccine - weekly summary of yellow card reporting [https://archive.md/eU43a#selection-1335.0-1335.445]
17] Nocebo [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocebo]
18] Yellow Card Scheme for adverse reactions does not suggest any new side effects for Covid-19 vaccines [https://healthfeedback.org/claimreview/yellow-card-scheme-for-adverse-events-does-not-suggest-any-new-side-effects-of-covid-19-vaccines-tess-lawrie/]
19] Anti-Vaxxers Misuse Federal Data To Falsely Claim Covid Vaccines Are Dangerous [https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjpmp7/anti-vaxxers-misuse-federal-data-to-falsely-claim-covid-vaccines-are-dangerous]
20] Confirmation Bias [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias]
21] Philip Watson: Tweet [https://twitter.com/PhilipWatson_/status/1429894166230835206]
22] Covid FAQ: Claim people are dying *with Covid* not *of Covid* [https://www.covidfaq.co/Claim-People-are-dying-with-Covid-but-not-of-Covid-e9d5af56419a438bb626bb08271b3b69]
23] Peter Donaghy Tweet (Excess Deaths UK) [https://twitter.com/peterdonaghy/status/1347997299729960972]
24] Coronavirus Vaccines Work But This Statistical Illusion Makes People Think They Don’t [https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/08/31/covid-israel-hospitalization-rates-simpsons-paradox/]
25] Teenage Boys Study [https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.30.21262866v1]
26] Dr. Anne McCloskey: GP Suspended after Covid-19 vaccine comments [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-foyle-west-58315530]
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