Because it's a garbage preprint of a paper written by unqualified anti-vaxxer weirdos. But it suits the "experts must be wrong" HN trope, so it's being posted all over this thread.
> “Dumpster diving” is a term used to describe studies using data from the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System database by authors, almost always antivaxxers, who don’t understand its limitations.
Is it really productive to just label people who wrote the paper researching data of vaccine side effects as "antivaxxers"? Does it mean that nobody can question the safety of vaccines now, because the only data that is being captured about side effects, apparently can't be used in data analysis?
No - but there are good ways and bad ways to use the VAERS data. The linked paper is a perfect example of the bad ways for all of the reasons laid out in that post. Of course researchers should be questioning the safety and side effect profile of vaccines -- but that doesn't mean that everyone who purports to do so is acting in good faith or has the capabilities/expertise to do so.
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/dumpster-diving-in-vaers-do...