Guide to Interpreting VAERS Case Report InformationLet'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.
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.
It's not fair to attempt to read significance into VAERS disclaimers that simply does not exist.
I suspect that no amount of explaining the scientific method or significance of statistical analysis is going to make any difference with you. You don't want to hear it.
The thousands of deaths and hundreds of thousands of cancers and dysplasias that occur every year in the US don't bother you at all, do they? Because, as far as you're concerned, everyone who gets an HPV disease deserves it for their sinful behavior, right? Even the babies who get it from their mothers deserve it because of their mothers' past sins, right?
According to the American Cancer Society:
--Eighty percent of all people develop a primarily sexually transmitted HPV infection during their life.
--About one of every twenty women will develop cervical dysplasia or cancer during her life (you probably know at least one of them)
--Around 11,000 new cervical cancers, and 15,000 other HPV caused cancers are diagnosed every year in the US. The death rate is about 35%.
Since a safe, relatively inexpensive, and effective preventative for the most common kinds of oncogenic HPV exists, I see no reason not to use it.