Did Sweden Ban Mandatory Vaccinations for Children in 2017?
13 March 2018 Spurious blogs and "alternative health" purveyors tried to misrepresent the country's already-voluntary vaccination program.
Articles tagged: anti-vaccine 16 Total
Did Pfizer’s Vice President ‘Blow the Whistle’ on Gardasil?
1 March 2018 A disreputable web site falsely claimed that the "vice president of Pfizer" said a vaccine for human papillomavirus is "deadly."
Did the Flu Shot Cause This Year’s Flu Epidemic?
14 February 2018 This claim is based on the incorrect interpretation of single quote from one nurse in Wisconsin who, for the record, recommends getting the shot.
Did a CDC Doctor Say the Flu Shot Is Causing a Deadly Outbreak?
17 January 2018 A disreputable web site used an unsourced and fabricated quote to link deaths from the flu epidemic to the flu shot.
Does a Viral Video of Mercury and Aluminum Mixing Suggest That Vaccines Are Unsafe?
7 September 2017 A science experiment on YouTube was co-opted by anti-vaccine activists to make scientifically illiterate innuendos about vaccine safety.
Are People in Brooklyn Refusing to Vaccinate Their Pets Over Autism Fears?
2 August 2017 This viral story has its origins in a neighborhood paper, but it is based entirely on the vague comments of two veterinarians and the musings of seemingly random people on the street.
Does the Gardasil Vaccine Come With Crippling Side Effects?
8 June 2017 A prominent anti-vaccine web site has promoted heartbreaking stories of illnesses and deaths which they say are a direct result of the Gardasil vaccine, but the causal links are just speculation.
‘First Ever’ Study Comparing Vaccinated and Unvaccinated Children Shows Harm from Vaccines?
17 May 2017 This study, with its suspect statistics and devil-may-care attitude toward methodological design, is a case-study in how to publish a misleading paper with faulty data
Would Breaking a Vaccine Vial Necessitate Evacuating a Building?
15 May 2017 This claim, made by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is a solid illustration of why scale and context matter when making health-related statements.
Vaccine Opponents: Sesame Street’s Autistic Character is Pharmaceutical Propaganda
20 April 2017 The introduction of Julia, an autistic Sesame Street character, drew claims by vaccine opponents that the puppet is part of a conspiracy.
Are Pharmaceutical Companies Hiding the Presence of Peanut Oil in Vaccines?
16 February 2017 Despite arguments that vaccines are to blame for rising peanut allergies, the claim that peanut oil is present in inoculations rests almost entirely on a misreading of newspaper articles from the 1960s.
Was the Raggedy Ann Doll Modeled After a Child Killed by a Vaccine?
11 January 2017 Raggedy Ann's creator filed patents for the doll several months before his daughter fell ill and died, rendering an old claim about vaccines chronologically impossible.
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