The Anti-Vax Guide

A collection of anti-vaccine myths as encountered online providing

explanation, refutations and external links for discussions

Collected, translated and/or explained by Benjamin Krüger,

All rights reserved by the respective owner and/or author of the provided links.
Extracts of these working papers, studies and articles are not marked as citations and are not
claimed as original content of this document.
 Index
PART I – MYTHS REGARDING THE DIFFERENT VACCINES _____________________________________4
“I never got my shots and never had a flu!“ _____________________________________________4
“The flu shot causes narcolepsy!” _____________________________________________________4
“The measles vaccine is useless. Just look at the outbreak in Quebec 2011! 52 of 98 children were
fully vaccinated and still got sick!” ____________________________________________________4
“If Quebec doesn’t convince you look at Corpus Christi 1986!” _____________________________5
“The Hib vaccine causes SIDS!” _______________________________________________________5
“In 1993 the MMR was withdrawn from Japan because it caused 2000% more health injuries” ___5
“A CDC whistleblower confessed they used the MMR to make Afro-Americans autistic!” ________5
“You can’t vax against toxins! The tetanus shot is useless!” ________________________________6
“Japan banned the HPV vaccine because so many girls died.” ______________________________7
PART II – MYTHS REGARDING THE INGREDIENTS ___________________________________________8
“But all that mercury!“______________________________________________________________8
“But all that aluminum!“ ____________________________________________________________9
“But formaldehyde!“ _____________________________________________________________ 10
“There’s aborted fetal tissue in vaccines!“ ____________________________________________ 10
“All those vaccines overload the immune system. Those foreign proteins confuse your body and
make it sick. Now we have sixfold vaccines, what’s next? 60 in one shot?” __________________ 10
PART III – MYTHS REGARDING VACCINE INJURIES/DAMAGES _______________________________ 11
“Anecdotes: The friend of my barbers mother has a friend who knows of a woman whose brothers
father-in-law died of a flu shot.“ ____________________________________________________ 11
“But the autism epidemic!“ ________________________________________________________ 11
“But SIDS!“ _____________________________________________________________________ 11
“But all those covered up vaccine damages!” _________________________________________ 11
“There are vaccine damages!”______________________________________________________ 12
“There are more and more vaccines and at the same time cancer is on the rise!” ____________ 12
“Vaccines cause allergies!” ________________________________________________________ 13
“There are no long-term studies on vaccines! How can you know they won’t cause cancer in future
generations?” ___________________________________________________________________ 13
“Vaccines cause the disease instead of protecting from it!“ ______________________________ 13
“More vaccines means more dying children!” _________________________________________ 14
“Glyphosate in vaccines contributed to the autism epidemic since 2000!” __________________ 14
“Vaccines cause type 1 diabetes!” __________________________________________________ 14
“Vaccines cause SBS.” ____________________________________________________________ 14
“Vaccines cause microcephaly!“ ____________________________________________________ 15
“Vaccines cause the autoimmune syndrome induced by adjuvants!” ______________________ 15
PART IV – MYTHS REGARDING SAFETY AND EFFICACY _____________________________________ 16
“The studies are fraudulent and pharma companies get rich!“ ____________________________ 16
 “There aren’t any double blinded studies!“ ___________________________________________ 17
“I’ve done my research online and seen a dozen videos on Youtube!” _____________________ 17
“The studies are fraudulent. Scott Reuben faked his data and so does everyone else.“ ________ 18
“The FDA doesn’t conduct trials for vaccine safety.” ____________________________________ 18
“But they are recommending vaccines.”______________________________________________ 18
“There’s a secret vaccine court and it covers up vaccine injuries and refuses to pay!” _________ 18
PART V – MYTHS ABOUT PREVENTABLE DISEASES AND GENERAL HEALTH CLAIMS ______________ 19
“What are the vaccinated scared of as they claim they are immunized?“ ___________________ 19
“Those childhood diseases strengthen your immune system.“ ____________________________ 19
“You don’t need vaccines if you’re living healthy.“ _____________________________________ 19
“But unvaccinated people are healthier!“ ____________________________________________ 20
“But they’re called childhood diseases. They’re harmless!“ ______________________________ 20
“Everybody had measles back then. And nobody died.“ _________________________________ 20
“Yeah but it weren’t vaccines saving us. It was sanitation.“ ______________________________ 20
“China has mandatory vaccinations and there are outbreaks!” ___________________________ 20
“But [insert any anti vaccination website here] says that…” ______________________________ 21
“But all the unvaccinated doctors!” _________________________________________________ 21
“Officials are corrupted by pharma companies!” _______________________________________ 21
“The dangers of epidemics are exaggerated.” _________________________________________ 21
“The typical age for measles infection was 3-7 years before vaccines were used, even during the
baby boom and outbreaks. Nowadays the age for infection shifted to the first few months were it
is a serious problem. Vaccines made harmless measles a deadly disease!” __________________ 21
“Measles aren’t dangerous because your body reacts with fever which kills the viruses.” ______ 22
“You can’t wipe out measles because the virus survives in bats. Vaccination is useless.” _______ 22
“The german high court confirmed that the measles virus doesn’t exist.” ___________________ 22
“Polio is a man-made disease caused by DDT!“ ________________________________________ 22
“Vaccines are an attack on the immune system. There’s no natural way germs enter your tissue
directly.” _______________________________________________________________________ 23
“If you want to get rid of the vaccine toxins you need to detox.” __________________________ 23
BONUS: ANTI-VACCINE “RESURCH” ___________________________________________________ 24
 PART I – MYTHS REGARDING THE DIFFERENT
VACCINES

“I never got my shots and never had a flu!“

Yeah. I don’t fasten my seat belts and never had a car crash. Ones personal experience doesn’t
count regarding risk assessment. It takes a lot of people to gather reliable data. Where do
people live? How old are they? The more data you get, the more reliable your results will be.
Elderly people and pregnant women are at a high risk of catching the flu. I am neither of
them.
Let’s get back to anecdotes and explain both assumptions:
The former german chancellor Helmut Schmidt was smoking about 40 cigarettes a day. He
got 96 years old. Does that mean smoking is healthy? No! This is just one man and whatever
happened to him does not have to apply on anyone else.
(learn statistic at http://www.statisticshowto.com/statistics-basics/)

“The flu shot causes narcolepsy!”

Not really. The adverse reaction was caused by surface proteins of the virus we call swine flu.
When it suddenly occurred it had the potential to become pandemic. Therefore a vaccine was
needed. As it turned out it wasn’t that deadly after all but still dangerous. When the vaccine
was created it was needed fast. Whenever something is needed fast mistakes can happen. The
mistake was that nobody knew those surface proteins can trigger narcolepsy and so nobody
tested it on that matter. However, there were considerably more cases of narcolepsy among
the unvaccinated who were infected.
Some anti-vaxxers like to tell you that the swine flu actually didn’t exist and was made up by
pharma to increase yield of vaccine. Well, the subtype H1N1 is now among the seasonal flu
and causes thousands of deaths every year. Yep, that’s the very same one we used to call
swine flu.

“The measles vaccine is useless. Just look at the outbreak in Quebec 2011! 52 of 98
children were fully vaccinated and still got sick!”

What actually did happen then? There were 776 reported cases of measles of which 725 were
confirmed. Among those the incidence was highest in adolescents 12-17 years old (a total of
404 cases). Now we disturb the antivaxxers safe space with some facts.
Of those 404 infected 266 were not vaccinated. Of all cases 465 were not vaccinated, 63
received one dose, 102 received at least two doses and for the remaining 95 the vaccination
status was unclear.
We all know antivaxxers can’t do the math, so here we go:
64.14% were unvaccinated.
8.69% were not vaccinated as recommended.
Of course you’ll hear their lamentations of what about the 102 with two doses. Given the fact
that they were all about the same age it is likely the vaccine wasn’t applied correctly. Sadly,
there is no way to find out the cause for this incident. Even though there were cases among
fully vaccinated students they were rather mild, thus proving the efficacy of the vaccine. If we
remove the cases in which the vaccine either wasn’t administered correctly or wasn’t stored
properly we nearly get the expected rate of vaccine failure (6.9%; 5% expected after two
doses).
So what do we learn? Actually, the outbreak shows that the main force were unvaccinated
people. Vaccine failures and failures to vaccinate happen but it still leads to milder illness
compared to those not vaccinated as recommended.
(https://academic.oup.com/jid/article/207/6/990/898747)

“If Quebec doesn’t convince you look at Corpus Christi 1986!”

Just like Quebec, this is a proof for the efficacy of the measles vaccine. All 1,806 children
were vaccinated, 74 did not acquire immunity. 14 of them got sick. This means 1732 children
were immune thanks to vaccines. Herd immunity protected 60 of 74 which would have been
infected without vaccines.
(http://www.academia.edu/30901044/Measles_Outbreak_in_a_Fully_Immunized_Secondary_
School_Population)

“The Hib vaccine causes SIDS!”

Nope, not a chance it does. SIDS is diagnosis by exclusion, meaning there is no known cause
or any cause that could be identified.
Examining the facts leads to realizing the first 6 months after birth show an accumulation of
SIDS. The vaccines is given at 2 months. By saying that 796 cases of SIDS were caused by
the Hib vaccine (yeah, someone tried hard to make this one look accurate) anti-vaxxers use
the logical fallacy “post hoc ergo propter hoc” (“what happened after sth. happened because
of it). If the vaccine or an actual infection would have been the cause of death, an autopsy
would have shown that easily. But without determining the exact cause, the cause of death is
SIDS aka “no vaccine involved”.
(https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25598306
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/sids.html)

“In 1993 the MMR was withdrawn from Japan because it caused 2000% more health
injuries”

2000% more than what? Anyone should be suspicious when reading such claims. However,
there is a vital point buried deep within. The vaccine itself was withdrawn because the
producer used a serum which already expired. (Plot twist: the company itself announced is. So
much for big pharma covering up.)
There actually were 2000% more adverse reactions as expected (1/900 instead of 1/100,000-
200,000). But still, looking at cases of aseptic meningitis caused by the vaccine (10/21,465;
0.05%) compared to those caused by wild type virus mumps (13/1051; 1,24%) the vaccine
wasn’t so harmful after all.
(https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16530894)

“A CDC whistleblower confessed they used the MMR to make Afro-Americans

autistic!”

It may sound stupid…ok, it does sound stupid, but this is the actual plot of “VAXXED”.
However, it’s a lie. There’s no autism to cause and no whistleblower.
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-cdc-whistleblower-saga-updates-backlash-and-i-hope-a-
wrap-up/

“You can’t vax against toxins! The tetanus shot is useless!”

We can vaccinate against toxins. We can’t use the actual toxin but that doesn’t matter. There
are a few anti science health claims according to this topic so we discuss them one by one.

1. “There’s no natural immunity to a toxin so you can’t provoke it with some shots.”

Of course there is a natural immunity to toxins. If you are a beekeeper you’ll notice the stings
won’t swell anymore after some time. That is because their toxin is harmless unless you’re
not allergic to it. Apitoxin (the bee’s toxin) is made out of several proteins easily identified by
the body’s immune system. It causes a local infection and swelling but doesn’t get far away
from the point of injection. So to say, the enemy is easy to recognize and doesn’t really put up
a fight.
Tetanospasmin, the causative agent of tetanus, is a pretty dangerous stuff and there is no
natural immunity because it is deadly in minimal amounts. It is one of two toxins made by
clostridium tetani, bacteria that are found in the soil nearly everywhere. A brief explanation of
the infection: when the bacteria enter your body they are spores and nearly resistant to
anything that would usually kill bacteria. This changes when introduced to an anaerobic
environment. They switch to their vegetative state in which they produce the toxins.
Tetanolysin damages surrounding tissue so they can spread more easily, tetanospasmin enters
the neurons and reaches the spinal cord. There it binds with proteins needed by the neurons to
interact and disassembles them. This ultimately causes spasms or even the absence of signal
transmission to organs. This happens very fast. Too fast for the immune system to react. And
it doesn’t even need much, less than 0.1mg are enough to kill you.
As you see, there are only two options: no immunity because the amount of toxin is too low,
meaning your nonspecific immune response killed the bacteria before you got sick or no
immunity because the amount of toxin was too high. It takes about 5 days to develop adaptive
immune response but it’s too slow to save you.

2. “That’s why you just need to let the wound bleed. The spores are washed out and you won’t
get sick.”

Imagine you stepped on a rusty nail. The spores stick to the surrounding tissue, the bleeding
doesn’t help.

3. “You need to clean the wound.”

Again, the bacteria enter your body as spores – resistant to extremes of heat and cold and even
disinfectants. They aren’t metabolically active so they don’t react to anything that comes in
contact with them. And they won’t become metabolically active as long as there’s oxygen
around them.

4. “So you have to leave the wound open. Don’t use plasters if you don’t want to get sick.”

This doesn’t have to do anything with c. tetani. This is done because thrombocytes can clump
better when there is fresh air, causing the bleeding to stop. It doesn’t do anything against the
bacteria. Sooner or later the wound has closed and the become active.
5.“Whatever, blood cells carry oxygen so nothing will happen and you’re just lying!”

Blood cell, or better the haemoglobin binds with oxygen so it can’t react anymore. There’s no
free oxygen circulating in your blood stream.

6.“Injecting a toxin only leads to death. You just explained there’s no way my body could
handle it.”

That’s why we don’t use the active toxin but a deactivated toxoid. Formaldehyde is combined
with the protein but unlike a reversible interaction with other proteins this link is permanent,
causing the toxin to lose its neuron-damaging properties. It looks like the actual toxin but
doesn’t interact with other proteins anymore.

7.”But formaldehyde is also toxic!”

No, it’s not. We’ll discuss that in Part II.

8.”But the bacteria remain!”

No. Once your immune system recognizes the toxin and eliminates it your nonspecific
immune response kills the bacteria because unlike their spores they aren’t a problem.

(https://medium.com/@visualvaccines/how-the-tetanus-vaccine-works-bae788b13bea)

“Japan banned the HPV vaccine because so many girls died.”

No. Nobody died because of a HPV vaccine. It also doesn’t cause infertility or any cancer.

(http://www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalraptorblog.php/japan-bans-gardasil-debunking-
myths-hpv-vaccine/#Japan_bans_Gardasil_the_facts,
https://sciblogs.co.nz/diplomaticimmunity/2017/02/14/hpv-vaccine-not-destroy-fertility/,
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/on-gardasil/)
 PART II – MYTHS REGARDING THE INGREDIENTS

“But all that mercury!“

It’s always about the mercury that has never been in any vaccine, but let’s take a look at that
claim. This one’s a bit extensive.

1.) There has never been elemental mercury in a vaccine. There has been an ingredient called
thimerosal which is a mercury compound. Nonetheless it’s not comparable to elemental
mercury as it has different chemical properties. It’s like salt: sodium and chlorine are pretty
toxic while together as sodium chloride aka common salt they’re pretty harmless.
Additionally, thimerosal gets converted into ethyl mercury which will be excreted after a few
days while methyl mercury (mainly ingested through fish) accumulates in your body and acts
poisonous after a certain amount is reached.
(https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/thimerosal#section=Top)

1.1.) It also doesn’t matter if it’s injected with a syringe or taken in orally. Even though
antivaxxers claim it’s worse in a vaccine because this way substances bypass natural
metabolism it’s harmless this way. Meaning: By oral ingestion every substance goes through
a system specialized in absorbing the most out of what you eat and drink. Whatever may harm
you has a pretty high potential to do so that way. On the other hand, by intramuscular
injection every substance gets transported out of your body piece by piece after the immune
system fought it or acknowledged there’s no harm. And no, vaccines aren’t injected in your
bloodstream. This could result in septic shocks. No, the muscle isn’t part of the blood stream
nor is it directly connected.
(https://health.howstuffworks.com/human-body/systems/circulatory/blood.htm
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0072434/)

1.2.) Another claim is that by direct injection parts of the vaccine get transported to your
brain, passing the blood-brain-barrier and doing whatever [insert any anti-vaccination
organization] assumes they do. That’s simply not how your body or the blood circulation
works. Even if they would, the bbb’s nearly closed for every bigger molecule and atom and
uses several mechanisms to ensure those which are not meant to pass it stay outside. Yep, this
also applies to babies, even if some folks argue opposite. Enough with additional info, let’s
get back to thimerosal.
(https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4292164/)
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2013/07/23/3808471.htm)

2.) Thimerosal has been removed from most vaccines except pandemic vaccines. This was
due to the claim it would cause autism which was, of course, fraudulent. So mocking about
mercury in vaccines is ridiculous not only because it doesn’t do any harm but also because it’s
not even part of them anymore.
(http://www.ncirs.edu.au/assets/provider_resources/fact-sheets/thiomersal-fact-sheet.pdf)

2.1.) Let’s do the math. Pandemrix (vaccine for pandemic flu) contains a total of 5µg
thimerosal or, as the mercury atom constitutes 50 per cent of thimerosal weight, 2.5µg
mercury. No, that doesn’t mean it’s half of the whole molecule. Mercury is just pretty heavy.
Back to the math. An average tuna contains about 72.7µg methyl mercury, which are
absorbed by 90 per cent by your digestive system and remain in your body for about 1-2
months at least. So there’s more mercury taken in via tuna pizza than via vaccines.

2.2.) I can’t stop this by now. Infowars claims mercury levels in a flu shot are 250 times
higher than the amount said to be toxic by EPA (http://www.infowars.com/mercury-in-
vaccines-no-more-dangerous-than-the-mercury-in-a-tuna-sandwich/). Therefore they quote a
wrong total amount of 25µg per shot:"There are 25 mcg of mercury included in each regular
season flu shot..." Actually, it’s 2.5µg mercury respectively 5µg thimerosal. As usually, other
anti-science blogs copied that claim without even doubting it. So there are a lot of pages
telling people:"...while the EPA sets the toxicity limit of mercury at .1 mcg. This is a 250
times greater amount than the EPA considers the toxic level in each injection." That’s just as
wrong as it can be because EPA further explains the limit refers to .1µg per kg body weight:
"In 2001, EPA validated the current RfD for mercury of 0.1 micrograms per kilogram of body
weight per day that was established in 1996."
(http://www.mercuryanswers.org/Pages/Fish.aspx)
And don’t forget: thimerosal isn’t used anymore in almost all vaccines.
A lot of people say thimerosal (and aluminum as well) cause a variety of illnesses. It would be
senseless to refute all those claims because they just make up another one. Truth be told, none
of those claims is even close to being a real thing.

“But all that aluminum!“

Again, it’s not elemental. There are currently two aluminum compounds used: aluminum
hydroxide and aluminum phosphate. Both are used in inactivated vaccines to provoke immune
reactions because the dead germs or their parts used aren’t adequate to do so alone. The
amounts used are very low and won’t do any harm except the local stimulus. Anti-vaxxers
love to tell others how the aluminum used in vaccines damages brain tissue. So let’s examine
why this is utter nonsense.
Both aluminum hydroxide and phosphate are only soluble in a pH value of either 11 and
higher or 3 and lower. Normal pH value in blood and nearby tissue (such as the muscle where
the vaccine is injected to) lies between 7.35 to 7.45. Logically, if one of those compounds gets
dissolved in your muscle, you couldn’t care less cause you are already dead. Both get carried
away piece by piece within a few weeks without harming your body. If that’s not enough,
there’s a second reason they can’t damage your brain tissue. That’s called the blood-brain
barrier. We already talked about that. Since aluminum may pass but there’s no chance it can
come from vaccines, where else does it come from? There actually are aluminum levels in
your brain tissue, so how did it get there? The answer is quite simple: ingestion. We also
talked about that earlier. Being the third most found chemical in the earths crust there’s
practically no way to avoid it and so you have a usual amount of 50-150mg in your body.
However, aluminum compounds in vaccines don’t contribute to that. Also, most of it doesn’t
stay for long. Only up to 2 per cent of a daily dose accumulate, meaning the lifetime body
burden is somewhere around 5-60 mg.
Let’s do the math: a single vaccine contains about 1.25mg at maximum of aluminum in one of
two compounds. Considering 20 vaccines given, only 0.5mg count towards the lifetime body
burden.
Fun fact: Anti-vaxxers also like to advice detox. They claim to get rid of aluminum by eating
bentonite in order to „suck out“ aluminum. One of the main components of bentonite
is…aluminum.
(https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/64655#section=Top
https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/10176082#section=Top)

“But formaldehyde!“

…is toxic when inhaled. Your body produces about 50g every day, so the approximately
0.2mg after cleaning don’t really stand out. Actually, a vaccine reduces the local
concentration of formaldehyde. Just for the record: an apple contains about 5-20mg
formaldehyde. Mmmmmhhh…that’s like 100 tasty vaccines at once.
(https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/712#section=Top)

“There’s aborted fetal tissue in vaccines!“

There isn’t any tissue in any vaccines. This is disgusting. This looks like any aborted fetus
gets disintegrated and used for gross medicine. Actually, the tissue used are cell lines like
MRC-5, derivated from one fetus donated for medical research more than 50 years ago. These
cells are needed because some viruses or bacteria need human tissue to survive and replicate.
You won’t find any of it in any vaccine for it is removed safely.
(https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/aborted-fetal-tissue-and-vaccines-combining-
pseudoscience-and-religion-to-demonize-vaccines-2/)

“All those vaccines overload the immune system. Those foreign proteins confuse your
body and make it sick. Now we have sixfold vaccines, what’s next? 60 in one shot?”

One by one.
1.) Even an infants immune system is potentially capable of taking 10,000 vaccines at once.
Why? Because from the moment of birth our body gets invaded by hundreds of millions of
germs and has to fight them for the rest of his life. A few thousand more or less don’t change
a thing.

2.) Everything you ingest or inhale or whatever counts as foreign to your body. Attenuated or
inactivated proteins won’t cause any harm. Your body’s reaction is the same as to an infection
but without an actual infection. However, the only way avoiding foreign proteins is
cannibalism.

3.) Multivalent vaccines need less antigens than single shots. The already low probability of
adverse reactions is lowered because you need 2 or 3 shots of multivalent vaccines instead of
9-18 single shots.

4.) The claim that vaccines weaken the immune system has already been proven wrong.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11773551
 PART III – MYTHS REGARDING VACCINE
INJURIES/DAMAGES

“Anecdotes: The friend of my barbers mother has a friend who knows of a woman
whose brothers father-in-law died of a flu shot.“

In short: Anecdotes are the very lowest grade of evidence. They come up so often in vaccine
discussions because these tend to be emotional rather than objectively. Some people like to
believe in those stories more than in actual data. This happens because we like simple links
that show a direct consequence of something we already believe to be the cause. They
embody an inner logic and seem to explain complex situations in easy words. Also they do
not contain relative data like “xx% safety“ but a “yes or no“.
Contrary, there is no such easy way to refute anecdotes. If you come across them, provide
actual data and emphasize why they are not relatable.
(further explanation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anecdotal_evidence#Faulty_logic)

“But the autism epidemic!“

…stands in no relation with vaccines and never did. The study which claimed was fraudulent
and got retracted, the doctor lost his license and never got it back. Anti-vaxxers claim he did,
but that’s not true.
Also, there’s no epidemic. A rise in autism diagnoses is explained by adaption of a wider
spectrum of affiliated disorders.
Wakefield said thimerosal was the cause for a kind of autism he discovered which clearly doesn’t exist
and a danish study proved a rise in autism diagnoses after thimerosal was removed from vaccines. In
short: there is no link between autism and vaccines.
Last but not least there is a claim that the studies done on anything are not credible when paid by
pharmaceutical enterprises. Well, anti-vaxxers also funded a study to investigate a link between autism
and vaccines. They also failed to find any hint both could be related to each other.
http://www.pnas.org/content/112/40/12498.full
(see also: Rise of autism in Japan despite ban of MMR vaccine:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-7610.2005.01425.x/abstract)

“But SIDS!“

Since vaccination cases of SIDS are on a decline (www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2431/15/1)

However, anti-vaxxers rely on a poorly designed study showing the opposite
(http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0960327111407644)
The data was collected throughout randomly chosen countries, most of them showing fewer
cases of SIDS than in the USA. The authors failed to provide information about the vaccines
given individually and concealed they worked for anti-vaxxers, which they had to add
afterwards to avoid retraction. Also there are important differences regarding financial
prosperity, environmental pollution, food supply or the general populations affinity towards
unhealthy habits like consuming alcohol, tobacco etc.
(further information:http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2011/05/16/vaccines-and-infant-
mortality-rates/)

“But all those covered up vaccine damages!”

There aren’t any. Most anti-vaxxers will tell you about somebody they know who got vaccine
damaged. Did he/she report the presumed adverse reaction? Did a doctor do so? Did anybody
confirm whatever reaction there might have been was actually caused by the vaccine? No.
Never happened. At this point they’ll likely link VAERS to prove their poor arguments. Well,
VAERS is a database for suspected adverse reactions. Anybody can add anything there. This
doesn’t count at all. This is just an example of „post hoc ergo propter hoc“, a false assumption
that anything what happens after an event takes place happens because of the event. This can
basically be reduced to correlation. Other correlations can be seen here:
http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
After all, any condition caused by a vaccine can be traced back to the vaccine. Anything else
was simply not caused by the vaccine, so does everything that happened more than six weeks
after vaccination because at this moment there is nothing left of it in your body.

“There are vaccine damages!”

And nobody denies this. After all, vaccines are medicine. And every medicine that has an
effect has a side effect. Even aspirin has some but no anti-vaxxer ever talked about being
damaged by it. https://www.drugs.com/sfx/aspirin-side-effects.html
You have to compare the risks. 7-8% of those who catch measles get febrile convulsions. Out
of everybody who received the MMR-vaccine it’s 0.5%.
20-50% of boys infected with mumps will face testicular inflammation as a grown up but only
one out of a million vaccinated against it will do so.
On the other hand, anti-vaxxers should be careful with what they say. They like to provide
alternative medicine which isn’t medicine at all. Also they tell you about all natural remedies
for any suffering. “If it’s natural, it can’t harm you.” For example comfrey root. They won’t
tell you it’s cancerous. Or what about aloe vera? They like to advice others to use it against
the rash or ingest it for a greater impact. What they don’t tell you that aloe vera was
commonly used as an abortifacient for hundreds of years. Yes, this will cause miscarriage.
It actually gets worse. Some advice MMS as a cure for autism. MMS is chlorine dioxide,
better known as industrial bleach which causes nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, symptoms of
severe dehydration and other life threatening conditions. It is promoted as a cure for almost
anything but will do nothing more than harming and killing you. If anti-vaxxers would use
this on (and in!) themselves nobody would care. But they like to torture their children with
that stuff, being proud of “defeating the autism parasites” which come out after they used it as
enema (totally ignoring the fact that these so-called parasites represent the etched away
intestinal mucosa).

“There are more and more vaccines and at the same time cancer is on the rise!”

Cancer is mainly caused by defective DNA which comes from damages taken over time.
Every scratch, the sun, even your meal the other day can damage your DNA. Simple
language: If the affected cells reproduce this damage will be repaired but your body loses his
ability to correctly do so when you become older. That’s why we lose our hair and get
wrinkles. Sometimes minor changes in the DNA accumulate, leading to abnormal growth.
That’s cancer. Usually your immune system also fights those cells. The older you are, the
more likely your body will fail to recognize those cells correctly. And there’s your answer to
rising numbers of cancer. Our society grows older and older. As a side effect more people are
able to get cancer, unlike a couple of decades ago.
Also, a couple of decades ago millions died of smallpox, measles and other now preventable
diseases. Now these people are able to become old enough to get cancer. At the moment there
is no way avoiding it.

“Vaccines cause allergies!”

Nope, they don’t. Long story short: In socialist GDR vaccination was mandatory. The number
of allergies rose significantly after vaccination rates declined once the Soviet Union was
finished. You might be allergic to an ingredient but vaccines can’t cause that. To develop
allergies your body has to misinterpret something you came in contact with before. This
misinterpretation can also be caused by damaged DNA due to radiation or whatever
mentioned before. So you need another contact to react allergic. Since most allergens are not
even ingredients of vaccines there is no plausible way they could cause or trigger allergies.
(http://www.chop.edu/centers-programs/vaccine-education-center/vaccines-and-other-
conditions/vaccines-asthma-allergies)

“There are no long-term studies on vaccines! How can you know they won’t cause
cancer in future generations?”

Well, first that would be senseless. There’s not the vaccine but hundreds of them. There are
attenuated vaccines, inactivated vaccines, toxoid vaccines, vaccines against viruses, vaccines
against bacteria…Which vaccine should be used for long-term observation? Besides, it takes
10-15 years of research until a vaccine is introduced for public use and also post-marketing
surveillance so many vaccines are subject to constant research over at least two decades. In
most cases, that’s also the usual time needed for a new and better vaccine to replace the older.
Fun fact: Anti-vaxxers love homeopathy. Homeopathy was invented in the same time. There
isn’t any research done to prove safety of new globules or whatever and certainly no long-
term surveillance. Using this analogy every new technology can be demonized.

“Vaccines cause the disease instead of protecting from it!“

To support this claim antivaxxers link to the chickenpox vaccine used in South Korea, where
the total incidence has tripled although 97% of the population is vaccinated against it.
So, what’s the incidence after all? When the vaccination program started there were 22.5 per
100,000 persons (2006), which rose to 73.2 in 2013. So there are actually only a few cases
still. But how did this happen?
The answer is easy: in an attempt to boost safety and tolerance of the vaccine, the efficacy
faded. It is nearly useless. Even though there aren’t even suspected cases of severe side effects
it is senseless to use this vaccine.
However, this argument doesn’t support the claim. Neither does the vaccine cause chickenpox
nor is it used in Europe or America. It is just an example of cherry-picking.
(https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5102851/)
“More vaccines means more dying children!”

At this point one could think everything has been said, but some folks tend to scream out
everything they think, at least if you call something like this claim “thought”. It’s based on a
comparative study showing 33 countries with a lower child mortality than in the USA, not
making clear that all of these also have fewer inhabitants, a lower birth rate and/or a better
healthcare system.
(https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3170075/)

“Glyphosate in vaccines contributed to the autism epidemic since 2000!”

Nice try, but Glyphosate is used since the 70s. Try again.

“Vaccines cause type 1 diabetes!”

No, they don’t. Seriously, what were you thinking?

Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease (which again aren’t caused by vaccines at all),
forcing the body to attack its Islets of Langerhans. This leads to a drop or even halt of insulin
production. Insulin is a hormone which tells your cells to storage glucose when there is too
much of it in your blood stream. If there is no insulin you’ll suffer from hyperglycemia which
then causes a variety of other symptoms and ultimately leads to death. There is no cure and
the only way to avoid this is the injection of human insulin.
There are some people who try to link the MMR vaccine to diabetes but they were cherry-
picking and ignoring anything that opposes their believes (just like anti-vaxxers usually do).
There is neither any proven way nor any way to possibly think of how vaccines might cause
this dysfunction. A lot of work has been done to find out the cause for type 1 diabetes, so
there is more than enough evidence to show that it’s not related to vaccines at all.

(https://www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalraptorblog.php/vaccines-increase-rate-type-1-
diabetes-another-myth-refuted/#Vaccines_cause_diabetes_according_to_Markus_Heinze)

“Vaccines cause SBS.”

This claim is just utterly disgusting. SBS stands for Shaken-Baby-Syndrome which consists
of subdural hemorrhage, retinal hemorrhage, and encephalopathy and is also called abusive
head trauma because there’s only one way babies suffer from this: child abuse.
You really have to be a disgusting piece of shit if you’re trying to tell anyone an injection into
arm or leg could possibly cause skull fractures or disrupted veins. But let’s face the facts,
there is a whole bunch of zealots supporting this nonsense.

(https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-antivaccine-lie-that-just-wont-die-shaken-baby-
syndrome-is-really-due-to-vaccine-injury/
“Vaccines cause microcephaly!“

Naturalnews or the Avocado postet articles blaming the TdaP vaccine for causing
microcephaly, saying that Zika is just a cover-up for vaccine damages. Of course this is utter
nonsense. They come with a review more than twenty years old in which symptoms that come
with microcephaly (like epilepsy, spasms etc) are linked to the vaccine. That’s not
microcephaly. And those vaccines aren’t available anymore.

(https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/update-on-the-zika-virus/)

“Vaccines cause the autoimmune syndrome induced by adjuvants!”

No. The ASIA syndrome aka Shoenfeldts Syndrome does not even exist.

(https://www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalraptorblog.php/autoimmune-syndrome-induced-
by-adjuvants-myth/)
 PART IV – MYTHS REGARDING SAFETY AND EFFICACY

“The studies are fraudulent and pharma companies get rich!“

Even pharma critical institutions like Cochrane Collaboration show the efficacy of vaccines.
(for example: http://www.cochrane.org/CD004407/ARI_using-combined-vaccine-protection-
children-against-measles-mumps-and-rubella
The author addressed numerous safety issues but did not question the efficacy in preventing
infections)
Most pharmaceutical enterprises get rid of their vaccine branch because it takes more money
to develop than they yield afterwards. The money comes from treating actual infections which
usually cost several ten thousand dollars.
Vaccines are not more than a niche and the costs are immense. I’ll explain it in detail.
1.) A single shot of MMRV takes about $100 while the treatment for measles alone takes
about $1,500. Therefore by producing vaccines the companies actually reduce their turnover.
But that’s not the end of it.
There are approximately 400 vaccines in development with each affording a budget of $200-
$500 million. Not all of those will ever by applied or even approved. There are certain
guidelines when it comes to vaccine development. According to GSK there are seven major
steps to take before a new vaccine is introduced to public and an eighth post-marketing phase
which can ruin all previous work.

Duration Phase Purpose Probability of successful

market entry
1-2 years Research Identification and production of antigens <1%
1-3 years Production technique Development of industrial production techniques, building
of production facility
1-2 years Pre-clinical development Testing for efficacy, evaluating possibly toxicity in-vitro,
afterwards animal testing; if there is no toxicity starting
phase 4
1-2 years Phase I clinical trials Evaluating safety, 20-80 test subjects 39%
1-2 years Phase II clinical trials Evaluating safety, efficacy and tolerance, 100-300 test 54%
subjects
1-5 years Phase III clinical trials Evaluating safety, efficacy and tolerance, 1000-70000 test 68%
subjects
1-3 years Approval Official review regarding safety, efficacy and tolerance 96%
1-15 years Phase IV post-marketing Monitoring pharmacovigilance, changes of approval
surveillance

As you can see developing a vaccine does not only take a lot of time and money, there is also
a high risk of failure even when it was considered safe. Sanofi recently stop a phase III trial
on the Philippines with a vaccine for dengue fever because there was a chance of 0.2% of
having a higher risk of aggressive dengue fever in those who weren’t infected prior to
vaccination. Instead of advising to not get the vaccine unless you suffered at least one time
(and survived) and saving millions of money of research they stopped all trials, called back
every batch and started with research on how to change the vaccine so it could be suitable for
everybody. This also means another 10 years until they can start another long-term human
trial (and it pulls back everyone stating pharma companies never admit damages by vaccines).
But let’s get back to general development.
After you’ve found an antigen which can be reproduced industrially and triggers an immune
response you need to build a production facility and evaluate its possible risks. Most
companies face obstacles at that point, meaning they cannot produce a safe active ingredient
industrially. Having to stop now means losing hundreds of millions you’ve invested before
and there is no way getting them back. There’s no insurance for that case. And it happens
almost every time. Only 1 out of 1,000 possible vaccines even makes it to a clinical trial.
Even if you can develop a safe and efficient vaccine and a way to mass produce it you need a
final manufacturing process. Without it you are not allowed to start phase III clinical trials
because you can’t guarantee regulatory demands are fulfilled. So only two out of three
possible vaccines are even tested on a large scale.
Now you have to build a test group large enough to be representative of the entire population.
Get the point? It’s a whole hell of a lot of work, time and money to make sure everything
complies scientific and legal demands. Usually several billion dollar are wasted before you
finally have a safe, efficient and easily distributable vaccine. Put simple, there’s no way to
gain money out of vaccines.

2.) Now we know what it takes to develop a vaccine. During that process every adverse
reactions reported by the subjects gets recorded. Sometimes these symptoms are related to the
vaccine applied, like fever or fatigue, sometimes there is no relation. Nevertheless everything
reported will be listed on the package insert for two simple reasons. First reason is to simply
tell what occurred time related to vaccination in order to provide efficient medical care if
needed. Doctors can handle the symptoms better when they have a clue what might have
caused them. The second are legal reasons. The companies have invested millions of Dollars
to develop the vaccine, they won’t risk legal affairs. Whatever is listed as adverse reactions
cannot be brought to court for there was information before usage.
Besides…just because a reaction was observed doesn’t imply you are predestinated to
contract this yourself.

“There aren’t any double blinded studies!“

Oh yes, there are, e.g. http://www.cochrane.org/CD001478/ARI_acellular-vaccines-for-

preventing-whooping-cough-pertussis-in-children
This also serves as a point of contradiction for some anti-vaxxers as they claim vaccines
aren’t tested for safety and then go on complaining how pharmaceutical companies do test
drugs in third world countries, mostly in randomized and placebo-controlled double blinded
studies.
Yes, one might get some doubts about morality considering how some of those studies were
performed but on the other hand this sometimes is the only way for testing. How should a
vaccine against Ebola be tested in northern America or Europe where it doesn’t naturally
occur? Even if you use millions of test subjects your results won’t count since there’s no
control group actually contracting the disease. The only way to do so would mean infecting
others intentionally with a disease we currently have no efficient cure for and which would
most likely kill a lot participants.

“I’ve done my research online and seen a dozen videos on Youtube!”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
“The studies are fraudulent. Scott Reuben faked his data and so does everyone else.“

Yet again anti-vaxxers ignore the fact that the autism claim was invented by someone they
willingly believe (Andrew Wakefield), although he also manipulated his data.
Nonetheless, it’s a fact that Reuben faked 21 studies. But that didn’t really changed a thing.
As http://anesthesiology.pubs.asahq.org/article.aspx?articleid=1932519 explains the reviews
citing Reuben are correct in their conclusion whether or not his work is included. That is
because he didn’t make up any effects which aren’t there. He fabricated clinical trials
demonstrating the benefits of analgesic drugs but using data from other trials. Therefore, the
benefits still exist, he just didn’t actually demonstrate them.
This may not be the correct style for a discussion, but let’s compare it to Wakefield. He made
up something that doesn’t even exist leading to vaccine refusal. This ultimately caused
thousands of sick children, some of them died. The point is: fraudulent data will get identified
and made public. There’s no reason to blame others or prejudge them because someone else
made a mistake.

“The FDA doesn’t conduct trials for vaccine safety.”

Why should they? As explained previously the manufacturer is in charge to do so.

“But they are recommending vaccines.”

And likewise anti-vaxxers recommend useless food supplements and toxic or caustic
“treatments” which weren’t tested ever. On the other hand, every vaccine available has been
tested for safety, efficacy and compatibility.

“There’s a secret vaccine court and it covers up vaccine injuries and refuses to pay!”

This is what it looks like if you ran into someone reading naturalnews. Fake news at its worst.
First, the vaccine court isn’t secret at all. It’s called National Vaccine Injury Compensation
Program, founded in the 80s and overloaded because anti-vaxxers want everything declared as
a vaccine injury. No, fever, epilepsy, autism, broken bones, car accidents, allergies or torn
nails aren’t vaccine injuries.
(https://www.hrsa.gov/vaccine-compensation/index.html)
 PART V – MYTHS ABOUT PREVENTABLE DISEASES AND
GENERAL HEALTH CLAIMS

“What are the vaccinated scared of as they claim they are immunized?“

Basically it’s not about scare or being exposed to diseases. The reason we promote vaccines is
that everybody without proper immunity serves as a host for germs and as a consequence
prevents them from extermination. For example, the measles virus can only survive four
weeks outside of the human body. By achieving herd immunity it could already be history
like smallpox. That being said, you do not only safe yourself from being infected by being
vaccinated but also those who can’t be. Immunosuppressed people, either due to genetically
conditions or aids and even those who receive chemotherapy as well as newborn babies are at
a high risk of dying or surviving with severe consequences caused by preventable diseases.
There are also non responder who don’t build up immunity through vaccines.
By promoting vaccines we actively protect all those other in our society in order to keep them
safe from harm.
(visual explanation: https://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/herd-immunity-0)

“Those childhood diseases strengthen your immune system.“

Actually not. Any disease will weaken your immune system. That’s especially the case with
measles infections which literally disable the immune system for years. Successfully
surviving an infection does not protect you from another one.
(http://science.sciencemag.org/content/348/6235/694)
Others say that vaccines weaken the immune system because it doesn’t have to do anything once
you’re immune. That’s plain wrong. Even if someone is immune to a disease his body still needs to
produce specific cells to kill the germs. The immune system is never on vacation. So there’s no reason
to think other diseases will spread easier because your body doesn’t know how to fight them off. He
knows and he does.

“You don’t need vaccines if you’re living healthy.“

Living healthy is helpful but no miracle cure. If your immune system doesn’t recognize an
intruder it doesn’t matter how strong it is. Let’s take a look at measles again. Once infected,
the viruses reach the lymph nodes aka the place where antibodies are produced. There they
infect the cells responsible for production of antibodies, thus bringing an important part of the
immune system to a halt and making the body prone to a disease he could easily defend
otherwise. This is also the reason why most deaths related to measles are caused by
complications.
(http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs286/en/)
“But unvaccinated people are healthier!“

No, they’re not. In short: there is no difference between the health status among vaccinated
and unvaccinated people regarding catching a cold, getting cancer or whatever. But there is a
difference when it comes to preventable diseases, which mostly occur among the
unvaccinated.
(https://thoughtscapism.com/2015/04/10/myth-no-studies-compare-the-health-of-
unvaccinated-and-vaccinated-people/)

“But they’re called childhood diseases. They’re harmless!“

No, they’re not. They’re called childhood diseases because they’re so contagious you’ll most
likely get infected already as a child. They’re even more dangerous in adults. The reason
some are saying they’re harmless is because they never came in contact or lost relatives to
them. Thanks to – yep, vaccines.
(https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/childhood-illnesses)

“Everybody had measles back then. And nobody died.“

The dead can’t comment on Facebook, can they? Each year there are hundreds of millions of
people, mostly children, dying from preventable diseases. Measles alone kill 140,000 every
year. You just don’t get to see them because you’re privileged enough to be born in one of the
wealthiest countries while they’re not. Until November 35 people died from a measles
outbreak in Romania, more than 10,000 are infected. Nearly none of them has been properly
immunized (not only among the segregated Romani people).
(https://www.ft.com/content/4c87ae80-7760-11e7-90c0-90a9d1bc9691
https://www.historyofvaccines.org/timeline?timeline_categories%255B%255D=51
https://www.cdc.gov/measles/cases-outbreaks.html)

“Yeah but it weren’t vaccines saving us. It was sanitation.“

Unless you call India a prime example for superior sanitation. It’s free of polio but at most
places sanitation is barely known. Also US citizens developed sanitation in only 5 years? Nah.
(https://www.rotary.org/myrotary/de/pakistan-polio-vaccinators-earn-community-trust-spite-
danger
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ed/Measles_US_1944-2007_inset.png
http://www.iayork.com/MysteryRays/2009/03/05/on-measles-vaccination-and-capitalism/ the 2nd
diagrams ordinate is logarithmically!)
On the other hand, people died even with proper sanitation. Louis XV. of france died because of an
infection with smallpox even though he had pretty good sanitation.

“China has mandatory vaccinations and there are outbreaks!”

China has a population of more than 1 billion. Considering a vaccination rate of 99% there are
10 million people unvaccinated. But that’s not the point. The outbreaks occur among people
in rural areas where there isn’t any modern medicine available. This is comparable to the
situation in western countries a hundred years ago.
“But [insert any anti vaccination website here] says that…”

Of course they do. And in the next step they offer you a cure for any symptoms they just
made you believe you have. All of them have their shops or at least link to a connected shop.
That’s how they pay their bills. Offering you stuff you don’t need as a cure for diseases you
don’t have. Fun fact: These are the same people that’ll tell you “big pharma” only wants your
money.

“But all the unvaccinated doctors!”

Most doctors are vaccinated. There are about a thousand who are not, compared to millions all
over the world. Also most anti-vaxxers mistake their holistic homeopaths or chiropractors as
actual physicians. They are not. They are neither schooled in actual medicine nor do they care
about it. That’s why they charge you $1,000 for detox globules made out of sugar for
$0.50/kg.

“Officials are corrupted by pharma companies!”

Lobbyism is a real thing. Of course lobbyists will try to reach out to officials. As it turns out
there is a balance, meaning there are about as much decisions made desired by pharma
companies as there are undesired.

“The dangers of epidemics are exaggerated.”

No, they’re not. For example the swine flu had the potential to become pandemic. After all,
since it first came up in small town La Gloria about it spread all over the world within just 5
years. This means the virus was capable of adapting to any kind of medicine and environment
without slowing down its expansion. Nowadays 7 of 10 flu infections are caused by it. Tell
me, where is this exaggerated?

“The typical age for measles infection was 3-7 years before vaccines were used, even
during the baby boom and outbreaks. Nowadays the age for infection shifted to the first
few months were it is a serious problem. Vaccines made harmless measles a deadly
disease!”

Nope. Measles have always been a deadly disease and the usually infections occurred after the
first few months of life, right after maternal passive immunity fades. Due to a higher living
standard and better sanitation this changed to a later infection. To understand why vaccines
are needed at such a young age, we have to understand how this passive immunity works.
Passive immunity means a transfer of antibodies to a non-immune person. You might have
heard of it as immunoglobulin therapy for severe cases of measles, necessary because there is
no cure for it in form of other medicine. There is also a natural way for passive immunity.
This is called maternal passive immunity. Antibodies produced by a mother (only regarding
the diseases she is immune to) are passed through the placenta predominantly during the third
trimester (which is why babies born prematurely are in special need for a infection-free
environment). Another way is breastfeeding, but this only protects against bacteria and
viruses attacking the gut. This is why breastfeeding does not protect a baby against measles,
mumps, rubella, varicella, polio, tetanus and so on.
The maternal passive immunity fades after a few weeks to a few months. Measles protection
isn’t present after about nine months while there is not protection against pertussis at all*.

Knowing this it is clear that sanitation shifted the age of infection with measles before there
were vaccines because fewer children were immune. Before 1965 they stayed at home and
didn’t come in contact with infected children. This changed when they were introduced to
kindergarten or school, were there were hundreds of non-immune children capable of
spreading the disease.
All that changed with the introduction of the measles vaccine.
Also there is easy-to-find proof of measles being a deadly disease:
http://pubmedcentralcanada.ca/pmcc/articles/PMC2024011/pdf/pubhealthreporig00184-
0087.pdf
(* a study suggests that there can be maternal passive immunity if a Tdap vaccine is applied to
the mother two months before childbirth:
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2463256)

“Measles aren’t dangerous because your body reacts with fever which kills the viruses.”

Wrong. Measles easily survive a temperature above 50°C (122°F) while you die before your
body temperature reaches 43°C (109.4°F). That is because proteins denature.

“You can’t wipe out measles because the virus survives in bats. Vaccination is useless.”

The occurring virus isn’t identical with the one causing measles in humans. There hasn’t even
been an infection with it. Vaccines can eradicate measles just like they eradicated smallpox.
Also there’s no problem with designing a vaccine against measles once they’re not a threat
anymore.

“The german high court confirmed that the measles virus doesn’t exist.”

Wrong again. It wasn’t a high court but a regional court and they stated:” The existence of the
virus itself is proven beyond any reasonable doubt.”
The claim comes from german anti-vaxxer Stefan Lanka. He called out to any doctor saying
he’d pay 100,000€ to anybody who can prove the existence of the virus through clinical data.
Dr. David Bardens sued him for not paying although he delivered six studies. But Lanka
didn’t have to pay him because of details. He asked for one study and got six. The court ruled
that the offer was made for one, so Lanka got out of the tight spot.
https://openjur.de/u/892340.html

“Polio is a man-made disease caused by DDT!“

The rubbish goes on. There is a simple reason anti-vaxxers like to link these two: If polio isn’t
caused by a virus, the vaccine has to be useless (not knowing that there are vaccines against
bacteria and toxins as well).
Where does it come from? A few decades ago it wasn’t known what caused the disease. There
were a few suspects, among them flies and mosquitoes. Therefore, people started spraying
DDT after a case of polio was confirmed in order to kill insects in town so the disease won’t
spread. A futile attempt as we know now but it also refutes the av claim. It was sprayed after
the first case appeared, so it can’t be the cause.
And by the way, there were millions of polio infections years before the invention of DDT.
It is thought that already in ancient Egypt people suffered from the disease, as some steles and
mummies show.
(https://academic.oup.com/envhis/article-abstract/22/4/696/4057684/Polio-DDT-and-Disease-
Risk-in-the-United-States?redirectedFrom=fulltext)

“Vaccines are an attack on the immune system. There’s no natural way germs enter
your tissue directly.”

Ever cut yourself somewhere? What do you think happens when germs find a way into your
body? Exactly: they enter. They don’t announce it and they don’t care wether you expect it.
They also don’t care how to enter. They just do.

“If you want to get rid of the vaccine toxins you need to detox.”

Detox is still a scam. Your body knows well enough how to detox your body. There is no
product that could contribute to this.

(https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-one-thing-you-need-to-know-before-you-detox/)
 BONUS: ANTI-VACCINE “RESURCH”
Last but not least some examples of studies anti-vaxxers like to use and what they’re really
about:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25114790
“Measles-mumps-rubella vaccination timing and autism among young African American
boys: a reanalysis of CDC data. Transl Neurodegener. 2014“

This study got retracted because of a conflict of interest, yet anti-vaxxers always highlight the
conflict of interest in pro-vaccine studies, denying the evidence.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25377033
“Commentary--Controversies surrounding mercury in vaccines: autism denial as impediment
to universal immunisation. Indian J Med Ethics. 2014“

Nothing of interest here since elemental mercury was never used in vaccines. Additional info
about Thompson: http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2015/08/05/the-cdc-whistleblower-
william-thompson-appears-to-have-gone-full-antivaccine/

Also it’s not even a study or an article, it’s a mere comment regarding an article.
(“Thimerosal as discrimination: vaccine disparity in the UN Minamata Convention on
mercury“) And neither of them actually provide any conclusions about autism.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24995277
“Methodological issues and evidence of malfeasance in research purporting to show
thimerosal in vaccines is safe. Biomed Res Int. 2014“

The author, Brian Hooker, is a conspiracy theorist and likes to make things up. There’s no
actual research involved.
(http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2013/04/03/brian-hooker-criticizes-a-vaccine-safety-study-
hilarity-ensues/)

http://academicjournals.org/article/article1411048618_Deisher%20et%20al.pdf
“Impact of environmental factors on the prevalence of autistic disorder after 1979 J Pub
Health Epid 2014“

It says that cases of autism grew rapidly since the end of the 1980s, not mentioning that 1987
an updated version of DSM was published in which autism wasn’t listed before.