Comments by "Theodore Shulman" (@ColonelFredPuntridge) on "Vaccine data from Florida" video.

But he's not telling the truth.
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Joseph Ladapo? He's an unscrupulous for-profit cultist.
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But John Campbell does lie about what the numbers mean.
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1. Florida's surgeon general is a well-known cultist anti-vax for-profit quack. 2. And VAERS own web site warns readers that it does not even try to confirm all the reports. 3. In 2020, Fox News and social media started publishing VAERS web-site, so that any hempen-homespun lack-brain could report anything. Dr. Campbell cannot be unaware of these three points. The fact that he doesn't say anything about them shows that he's a liar.
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From VAERS own web site: Anyone, including Healthcare providers, vaccine manufacturers, and the public [including ideologically-driven loop-a-dupe anti-vax cultists and their for-profit enablers] can submit reports to the system [including fake reports, which don't usually get checked or exposed]. While very important in monitoring vaccine safety, VAERS reports alone cannot be used to determine if a vaccine caused or contributed to an adverse event or illness. Vaccine providers are encouraged to report any clinically significant health problem following vaccination to VAERS even if they are not sure if the vaccine was the cause. In some situations, reporting to VAERS is required of healthcare providers and vaccine manufacturers. VAERS reports may contain information that is incomplete, inaccurate, coincidental, or unverifiable. Reports to VAERS can also be biased. As a result, there are limitations on how the data can be used scientifically. Data from VAERS reports should always be interpreted with these limitations in mind. […] The number of reports alone cannot be interpreted as evidence of a causal association between a vaccine and an adverse event, or as evidence about the existence, severity, frequency, or rates of problems associated with vaccines. Reports may include incomplete, inaccurate, coincidental and unverified information.
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@pammalone2572 No sir/ma'am. He's got credentials but he's sold out to right-wing loop-a-dupery, which is an easier way to get richer faster now than doing real science would be. I am a retired antibody chemist so I know a little bit about this.
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Proud to be a Floridian? Look up: Dunning Kruger
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@elpanekillo Then cite those data, not numbers from VAERS.
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What other program? Where (if anywhere other than in your imagination)?
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@sammywhite9906 Because I have read his history.
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@FJB8885 These are personal questions. But I'll tell you a few things: No, I'm not a physician; I didn't like med school. These days you hear a lot about doctors quitting; well, I quit trying to practice medicine after I finished my first clinical rotation. It's a challenging, honorable profession, but when you actually get on the wards and start trying to do it, it's way too much like being in the army; you have to be polite to everyone even when you want to punch them in the face. I am retired; when I worked, I was an antibody-chemist. I have immunized hundreds (literally) of animals, and bled them, and tested their blood for antibody-responses. I have designed methods for using antibodies for various purposes for many different scientists on many levels (including lowly start-up profs at minor schools. and big-shot winners of accolades such as the National Medal of Science, the and the Nobel prize, and everyone in between) and in many specialties, including plant biology, oncology, neurological embryology, environmental chemistry, and cardiology. (Antibodies are very versatile scientific tools.) I have validated vaccines against weapons pathogens for the Department of Defense. I don't teach medicine, but I have trained grad students and post-doctoral fellows and young professors to do antibody work, and also I had a side-hustle tutoring practice helping undergrads with pre-med sciences, for what was at the time considered a high-end fee. A few of my former pupils and trainees are successful scientists now, and some who are not scientists are, at least, scientifically-literate non-scientists. I am also a reasonably good science writer. I have successfully raised grant money from NIH (NIDA) with my writing, long ago. When I was still working, some of my co-workers consulted me from time to time for proofreading services and stylistic improvement. The trick to writing a good grant proposal is to make it sound technical and dry, but to tell a metaphorical story so the readers feel excited without quite knowing why. But all this was long ago. Now I spend my time trying to be an amateur classical vocalist (bass-baritone). And what do you do to make ends meet, and to occupy your spare time?
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@janineberry6318 What shows that he's a liar, in this particular video, is that he thinks that the fact that reports to VAERS spiked in 2021 means anything at all about the virus or about the pandemic. VAERS is worthless for proving anything and everybody knows it. VAERS says so on its own web-site!
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@wordwordful There is no "whose truth". Facts are facts, and it doesn't matter who is talking about them. It's just a fact that VAERS numbers mean nothing and are not "alarming" no matter what they are. In this particular case, Dr. Campbell is lying - a terrible lie of omission - about VAERS. The fact is, the number of complaints VAERS receives in any given time period tells us nothing whatsoever about the virus, or about the vaccine, or about the pandemic. VAERS is basically worthless, because they don't check or verify or confirm more than a tiny fraction of the reports they get. (How do I know this? Because their very own web-site says so.)
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@alanjm1234 RE: "Are you saying the findings of the Florida Surgeon General are lies?" Yes, they are lies of omission. He announced that reports to VAERS increased suddenly, but he omitted the fact that VAERS reports are not evidence of any danger or problem with any vaccine.
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VAERS is worthless, that's probably why.
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