Vaccine Death Reports Are Not What They Seem
by Beth Skwarecki on Vitals, shared by Beth Skwarecki from Lifehacker on (#5FJDX)
The US government maintains a database called VAERS, to which anybody can file a report if they think something bad happened to them after receiving a vaccine. It's an important tool in keeping tabs on vaccine safety, but it's also being mined by anti-vaccine activists to make vaccines seem scarier than they are.