FAKE NEWS: Unvaccinated children are healthier

FAKE NEWS: Unvaccinated children are healthier
© EPA/SHAHZAIB AKBER   |   A child receives the polio vaccine drops during a door-to-door vaccination campaign in Karachi, Sindh province, Pakistan, 16 December 2024.

Vaccinated children get sick faster and more easily, according to anti-vaccine propaganda, which cites a study conducted by health authorities in the US state of Michigan.

NEWS: An explosive hearing in the US Senate has revealed the years-long cover-up of a large-scale scientific study proving that vaccinated children are more prone to chronic diseases than unvaccinated children. Attorney Aaron Siri presented the study and its main findings on Tuesday at a hearing of the Senate Subcommittee on Investigations, chaired by Senator Ron Johnson, SlayNews reports.

The study was conducted on 18,000 children in the Henry Ford healthcare system in Michigan. "The results are astonishing," said Siri.

The study showed that vaccinated children are:

- 3.03 times more likely to develop an atopic disease;

- 5.96 times more likely to develop an autoimmune disease;

- 5.53 times more likely to suffer from neurodevelopmental disorders.

Overall, vaccinated children were 2.48 times more likely to develop a chronic condition than unvaccinated children. In the case of diseases such as diabetes or brain dysfunction, no vaccinated children presented these conditions.

The researchers who worked on this study, which radically contradicts the vaccine dogma, decided not to publish it, fearing that it would jeopardize their careers. Aaron Siri says that the Michigan healthcare system put a lot of pressure on them not to make it public.

NARRATIVE: Vaccines lower kids' immunity to diseases.

PURPOSES:  To promote conspiracy theories, undermine trust in the healthcare system and, by extension, in state authorities, provoke and amplify social tensions, and validate their own conspiracy theories.

The study is not even validated by the coordinating institution.

WHY THE NARRATIVE IS FALSE: The "crucial" study cited in the article was not "hidden" from the public; its absence from specialized journals was due solely to the fact that it had not passed peer review. This hypothesis is confirmed, first of all, by the response given by the Henry Ford Center to journalists from The Guardian , in which it states that "this report was not published because it did not meet the rigorous scientific standards we require as a leading medical research institution." Furthermore, to dispel the speculation of anti-vaccine propagandists, the institution states that "the data has consistently shown that vaccinations are a safe and effective way to protect children from life-changing diseases." Furthermore, there is no public statement from Marcus Zervos (the study's coordinator) or other authors confirming that they were threatened and that this is the reason why the study was not published.

Currently, the only publicly available information about the study comes from the  US Senate hearing . According to documents submitted by the authors, the study shows that "among the unvaccinated group, there were zero brain disorders, zero diabetes, zero behavioral problems, zero learning disabilities, zero intellectual disabilities, zero tics, and zero other psychological disabilities." However, the methods or raw data used in the research are not presented. Even if such data existed, it would not prove causality, a fact emphasized during the hearing by Jake Scott, associate clinical professor of infectious diseases at Stanford University, the only physician heard as a witness by the US senators.

He explained that the study cited is "fundamentally flawed," arguing that parents of vaccinated children take their children to the doctor much more often, and more medical visits mean more opportunities to be diagnosed with various diseases. Scott continued his explanation by pointing out that although the study reports zero cases of ADHD among thousands of unvaccinated children, the prevalence of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, which in the United States is 11% among children, refutes this hypothesis by its very improbability. He also contradicted the conclusion of a six- to eight-fold increase in ear infections among vaccinated children, pointing out that the study's authors did not provide a plausible scientific explanation as to why vaccines would increase their number.

The study does not prove that vaccines cause autism. Experts clearly explain that even if an analysis observes an association, this does not automatically imply causality. There are currently dozens of studies showing that there is no link between vaccines and autism, and opposing views have failed to provide any plausible evidence to support them. For example, a study conducted in Denmark   on nearly 660,000 children born between 1999 and 2010 clearly showed that "vaccination does not increase the risk of autism, does not trigger autism in susceptible children, and is not associated with a cluster of autism cases after vaccination."

The conclusions invoked by vaccine advocates are therefore the result of underdiagnosis or differences in data collection methods between groups. Furthermore, without access to the data set and the method of adjustment for variable factors (age, gender, number of visits to the doctor, socioeconomic status, etc.), these numbers cannot be interpreted correctly according to any scientific criteria.

Once again, vaccines

CONTEXT: False narratives about the effectiveness and effects of vaccination have been circulating for several years, but have become much more visible with the advent of COVID-19 vaccines. These theories are promoted by various publications and figures from the ultra-religious conservative sphere, but they are also taken up and exploited by politicians for electoral purposes, or by people known to be close to Russia and its foreign policy, which seeks to destabilize Western societies. Several conservative publications take up these false narratives and seek to validate their anti-vaccine theories through pseudo-experts, anonymous websites, or by falsely citing various studies, events, or personalities outside the medical world.

According to them, there is a secret plan worldwide that aims to reduce the planet's population and/or control it completely, which is being implemented with the help of new technologies based on artificial intelligence, but especially through medical procedures that, in the hands of the World Health Organization, are used as biological weapons. In their opinion, vaccines are intended to make the global population sick and to inoculate nanodevices into human bodies in order to control the thoughts and movements of those affected.

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