If the government runs a survey, not everyone is going to tell the government about what goes on with them. It’s really not any different in the kind of error that someone who takes the VAERS death numbers on face value makes instead of trying to understand what those numbers actually mean.
Right. They have significant side effects but lie on the survey because...? Or maybe you’re saying they refuse to do the survey at all.
But then, why didn’t they lie or refuse in the unnamed information sources you advocated?
Of course I could tell a story where people who don’t have side effects forget about the survey and don’t bother to report their absence of side effects, but you’re going to like your story better, so that makes your story the true one. And also the size of the bias you’re assuming exists would have to be enormous, but whatever.
If the government runs a survey, not everyone is going to tell the government about what goes on with them. It’s really not any different in the kind of error that someone who takes the VAERS death numbers on face value makes instead of trying to understand what those numbers actually mean.
Right. They have significant side effects but lie on the survey because...? Or maybe you’re saying they refuse to do the survey at all.
But then, why didn’t they lie or refuse in the unnamed information sources you advocated?
Of course I could tell a story where people who don’t have side effects forget about the survey and don’t bother to report their absence of side effects, but you’re going to like your story better, so that makes your story the true one. And also the size of the bias you’re assuming exists would have to be enormous, but whatever.