
Originally Posted by
dawg80
I'm not defending VAERS per se, but there are a lot of sources that base projections, recommendations on such "incomplete, inaccurate, etc..." information. Including sources that YOU purport to trust. I include the FDA in that, and the CDC as well. There is always a measure of statistical "assumption(s)" in all such "scientific" research/studies. Now, in some cases there might be a 95% confidence level, but that is fairly rare, and even then who's to say the 5% possibility isn't the reality!? I shake my head when some folks say "follow the science," especially politicians, as they have no clue what REAL SCIENCE is.
If you have never read "Failure is Not an Option" by NASA's Gene Kranz, I highly recommend it. A must read for anyone interested in REAL SCIENCE (and engineering too, of course). If you have read it, remember what happened when 12 computers were saying one thing, and 1 lone computer the opposite? The lives of 3 astronauts hung in the balance.