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Economist Mark Skidmore publishes antivax propaganda disguised as a survey

Mark Skidmore
Mark Skidmore is a perfect example showing why economists shouldn't be trying to determine how many adverse events are caused by vaccines. At least, antivax economists shouldn't, as they embarrass themselves and their schools when they do so.

Antivaxxers love surveys. This time BMC Infectious Diseases has the dubious “honor” of publishing a truly awful one by an economist named Mark Skidmore that claims that COVID-19 vaccine have killed nearly 300K people.

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“Died Suddenly”: Resurrecting the old antivax lie of depopulation

Died Suddenly
The claim that vaccines cause previously healthy young people to "die suddenly" is not new. Stew Peters has resurrected this conspiracy theory and applied it to COVID-19 vaccines.

Everything old is new again when it comes to antivax tropes. Died Suddenly resurrects the old antivax conspiracy that vaccines kill, the plan being to cause “depopulation” that would allow “global elites” to control the world.

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The COVID-19 “vaccine holocaust” accelerates in antivax messaging

Vaccine holocaust?
No, COVID-19 vaccines are not causing a "vaccine holocaust."

The antivax lie that vaccines are killing lots of people long predates COVID-19, but now the idea of the “vaccine holocaust” has reached the ridiculously implausible proportions of 20 million dead and 2 billion injured. How did antivaxxers do this?

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Antivax weaponization of v-safe: Like VAERS on steroids

V-Safe
V-Safe: The reporting system for COVID-19 vaccines.

Misrepresentation of VAERS reports has been a longstanding antivaccine propaganda technique. Now Del Bigtree has gotten his hands on V-Safe, the system created to track adverse events after COVID-19 vaccination. The results are, predictably, disinformation.

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Scientific review articles as disinformation

The "graphical abstract" for the "scientific review"
This “graphical abstract” looks so very, very scientific, doesn’t it?

Antivaxxers have always written dubious scientific review articles to try to make their wild speculations about vaccine science seem credible. Usually such articles wind up in bottom-feeding journals. Unfortunately a recent pseudo-review article was published by an Elsevier journal, making it seem more credible when it isn’t.

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