David Gorski
Surgical oncologist who writes about medical misinformation, anti-vaccine claims and alternative medicine. Blogs at Respectful Insolence under the pen name Orac and is managing editor of Science-Based Medicine.
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Their wordsHe is utterly convinced that he is correct and that vaccines are both ineffective and dangerous.
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The number of antigens children receive today is significantly lower than it was decades ago.
Their wordseven though there are more vaccines, the design and manufacture of vaccines are much more precise, such that the number of antigens children receive today by age 4 is at least 25-fold fewer than it was 30-40 years ago even as children receive vaccines against many more diseases.
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Delaying the hepatitis B birth dose will likely lead to more cases of hepatitis B and liver cancer.
Their wordsThe only likely effect of delaying the birth dose, as this administration has been trying to do, will be more cases of hepatitis B and, decades from now, more cases of liver cancer, the most deadly late complication of chronic hepatitis B infection.
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- 9 months earlier
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Their wordsIt suggests to me that CHD is the past and that more radical antivax groups are the present and the future, which is profoundly depressing to think about.
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Their wordsSadly, though, his denials of being antivax fooled enough Senators-or at least gave them sufficient plausible deniability-to allow them to tell themselves that they were not confirming a nominee for HHS Secretary who would immediately start dismantling US federal health and vaccination programs, which is exactly what RFK Jr. immediately proceeded to do after being confirmed as HHS Secretary, almost exactly as I'd predicted that he would.
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Their wordsIndeed, since taking over the reins of HHS, RFK Jr. has weaponized a funhouse version of the evidence-based medicine (EBM) paradigm against vaccines, misrepresented medical ethics to attack vaccines, dismantled the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), replacing the experts with antivaxxers, who immediately turned the committee into a clown car barreling through the vaccine schedule.
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Their wordsThey are truly the Four Horsemen that herald the end of US leadership in biomedical research, public health, and medical advancements in favor of bad science, pseudoscience, quackery, and, yes, antivax nonsense.
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Their wordsremind you that there is no "autism epidemic," as claimed over and over again by everyone who spoke at this presser.
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Their wordsIn brief, again, the overall scientific consensus is currently that there does not appear to be a link between acetaminophen use in early pregnancy and autism spectrum disorders.
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Their wordsVAERS is not a good data source for looking at changes in actual prevalence of an adverse event over time, for the simple reason that the database is very much subject to reporting bias.
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Their wordsIndeed, if anything, the scientific consensus is that vaccination is likely protective given that infection seems to be associated with an increased risk of SIDS or to serve as a precipitating factors, leading to recommendations from various government health agencies (e.g., the UK's NHS), medical professional societies (e.g., the American Academy of Pediatrics and the French National College of Midwives) that keeping babies up-to-date on their immunizations minimize the risk of SIDS.
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Their wordsAnother important fact to impart is that the risk of SIDS is very much increased by sleep position, as a proportion of SIDS deaths are in reality accidental suffocations.
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