[exDemMom]

It's a simple concept -- shame it makes your head spin.

Wrong. Illogic makes my head spin.

Working to save lives, protect health, and educate people is never shameful.

And for that fondness you willfully discredit the available evidence of correlation. VAERs is meaningless to you.

Many, many things are correlated that are not caused by each other. The VAERS website specifically states:

Guide to Interpreting VAERS Case Report Information
When evaluating data from VAERS, it is important to note that for any reported event, no cause-and-effect relationship has been established. Reports of all possible associations between vaccines and adverse events (possible side effects) are filed in VAERS. Therefore, VAERS collects data on any adverse event following vaccination, be it coincidental or truly caused by a vaccine. The report of an adverse event to VAERS is not documentation that a vaccine caused the event.
(Underlining mine.)

[so_real]

I'll see your underlining and raise you a bolding :

Guide to Interpreting VAERS Case Report Information
When evaluating data from VAERS, it is important to note that for any reported event, no cause-and-effect relationship has been established. Reports of all possible associations between vaccines and adverse events (possible side effects) are filed in VAERS. Therefore, VAERS collects data on any adverse event following vaccination, be it coincidental or truly caused by a vaccine. The report of an adverse event to VAERS is not documentation that a vaccine caused the event.

Let's try to see both sides of the coin. VAERs is a valuable resource and its not fair to attempt to discredit it by emphasizing only half of a level-headed cautionary statement.