Veria - Claim Fact Check

25%

Two papers were indeed published in the International Journal of Innovative Research in Medical Science (IJIRMS) that report central‑nervous‑system and psychiatric adverse events as safety signals using VAERS data¹².
One study identified 63 CNS safety signals (e.g., meningitis, encephalitis, prion disease) by comparing COVID‑19 mRNA vaccines to influenza and other vaccines via proportional reporting ratios³.
The companion study identified 86 neuropsychiatric safety signals, including 47 adverse events associated with cognitive impairment, 28 with general psychiatric illness, and 11 with suicide/homicide, also using PRR thresholds².
However, IJIRMS is listed on a predatory‑journal directory and has been described by experts as a low‑quality pay‑to‑publish outlet with minimal or opaque peer‑review standards⁴⁵.
The authors include figures with documented histories of promoting vaccine misinformation, and the methodology (VAERS passive‑surveillance PRR analysis) cannot establish causation and is highly susceptible to reporting bias, surveillance bias, and confounding⁴.
Consequently, while the literal claim that two published papers report these findings is accurate, describing them as meaningfully “peer‑reviewed studies” in the credible scientific sense is misleading.

Overall validity: 25%