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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.

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Antivaccine nonsense Bad science Medicine Pseudoscience

When new school antivaxxer Steve Kirsch met old school antivaxxer Andrew Wakefield

Old School
New school antivaxxers are becoming more and more like old school antivaxxers.

Steve Kirsch interviewed Andrew Wakefield, demonstrating that there is no distance between “new school” and “old school” antivaxxers anymore. Also, they are antivaccine, with Wakefield saying there is no safe vaccine.

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Antivaccine nonsense Bad science Medicine Pseudoscience

SADS (Sudden Adult Death Syndrome): It’s always about the vaccines

SADS
A representative book on SADS.

Antivaxxers are falsely claiming that COVID-19 vaccines have been causing an epidemic of Sudden Adult Death Syndrome (SADS, also a misnomer for Sudden Arrhythmic Death Syndrome), because of course they are, and of course to them it’s all a “coverup.”

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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Skepticism/critical thinking

How to identify most antivaxxers with a simple question

The question for "I'm not antivax"
Nah. You're antivax.

Here’s a helpful question to determine if someone saying “I’m not antivax” is either fooling themselves or lying.

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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Popular culture Pseudoscience

When “old school” antivaxxers meet the “new school” antivaxxers

"Beter Way" old school antivaxxer vs. new school antivaxxers
Antivaxxers like Dr. Robert Malone (second from left, the one who looks like Kenny Rogers) refuse to defend the childhood vaccination schedule at the Better Way Conference 2022 in Bath, England. Geert Vanden Bossche is the one sitting next to him adjusting his glasses and wishing he were somewhere else than with all these rabid antivaxxers.

An old school “vaccines cause autism” antivaxxer hosted new COVID-19 antivaxxers at an antivax conference last month. Although one new antivaxxer, Geert Vanden Bossche, was discomfited and pushed back against old antivax tropes, the rest joined Del Bigtree in spewing longstanding antivax tropes.