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SIDS, SADS, death and destruction: Antivaxxers resurrect an old lie to bolster a new lie

Post author By Orac
Post date June 15, 2022
77 Comments on SIDS, SADS, death and destruction: Antivaxxers resurrect an old lie to bolster a new lie

Victorian mourning infant baby and SIDS — Victorian infant mourning doll. Yes, before vaccines, this was a thing. So was SIDS, but antivaxxers are trying to claim otherwise. (Source.)

With antivaxxers blaming sudden adult death syndrome (SADS) on COVID-19 vaccines, of course, they’re citing SIDS now as being caused by MMR.

Tags Age of Autism, antivaccine, DPT, Gary Goldman, measles, MMR, mumps, Neil Miller, rubella, SADS, sids, Sudden Adult Death Syndrome, Sudden Arrhythmic Death Syndrome, sudden infant death syndrome, Vaccine Court, vaccines, William Gaunt

Antivaccine nonsense Autism Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Science Skepticism/critical thinking

Andrew Wakefield claims “natural Herd Immunity” is better than anything vaccines can do, never mind all that suffering

Post author By Orac
Post date May 31, 2016
61 Comments on Andrew Wakefield claims “natural Herd Immunity” is better than anything vaccines can do, never mind all that suffering

Andrew Wakefield, his claims to the contrary, is antivaccine to the core. To be honest, I’m not sure if he was always antivaccine. After all, around 20 years ago when he was doing his “research” into whether the MMR vaccine causes autism, he was being generously funded by a barrister seeking to sue vaccine manufacturers […]

Tags Andrew Wakefield, antivaccine, chickenpox, community immunity, Del Bigtree, herd immunity, measles, mumps, Polly Tommey, shingles, vaccine, varicella, Vaxxed

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