Grant comments on Stupid Questions March 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Grant 04 March 2015 07:42:31AM 2 points [-]

Is there overwhelming evidence on the safety (not efficacy) of vaccines somewhere, and I've just missed it?

Comment author: Username 04 March 2015 08:06:49AM 6 points [-]
Comment author: satt 06 March 2015 12:07:35AM 4 points [-]

The amount of evidence depends on the vaccine, but the US National Academy of Sciences published a long report on this in 2011.

The committee finds that evidence convincingly supports a causal relationship between some vaccines and some adverse events—such as MMR, varicella zoster, influenza, hepatitis B, meningococcal, and tetanus-containing vaccines linked to anaphylaxis. Additionally, evidence favors rejection of five vaccine-adverse event relationships, including MMR vaccine and autism and inactivated influenza vaccine and asthma episodes. However, for the majority of cases (135 vaccine-adverse event pairs), the evidence was inadequate to accept or reject a causal relationship.