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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Movies

Shot Dead: A particularly disgusting piece of antivax propaganda

Shot Dead
Antivaxxers are nothing if not predictable in the graphics they choose.

Here we go again with a new antivax propaganda film. Shot Dead is even more vile than pre-pandemic antivax films, full of antivax propaganda and exploitation of dead children.

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Antivaccine nonsense Clinical trials Medicine

Does the flu vaccine cause miscarriages?

I'll invoke Betteridge's law of headlines here: No, the flu vaccine does not cause miscarriages, no matter what a new study shows or antivaxers say.

A recent study claims to have found a link between influenza vaccination and miscarriage, and antivaxers are rejoicing. The study itself suffers mightily from post hoc subgroup analyses and small numbers in the subgroup, so much so that even its authors don’t really believe its results.

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Antivaccine nonsense Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

H1N1 vaccine and miscarriages: More dumpster diving in the VAERS database

Antivaccinationists just love the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting (VAERS) database. As in love it to death. As in “can’t get enough of it.” The reason, of course, is that VAERS is a lot like an unmoderated discussion forum or, at best, a minimally moderated forum. Anyone can say anything they like. The reason is that […]