Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has a new vaccine book out. How far do you think we get until we uncover the first five lies in his Vax-Unvax Let the Science Speak book?
I’m guessing it won’t take long…
The First Five Lies in Vax-Unvax – Let the Science Speak Book
And it didn’t…
“In the 1940s, children received the DPT (diphtheria, pertussis, and tetanus) and smallpox vaccines; in the 1950s, children started receiving the polio vaccine; and by the late 1960s, children also received the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccines.”
Vax-Unvax by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Chapter 1 Page 1)
As most folks know, if you look at historical immunization schedules, you can easily see that children routinely got many more than just the DPT and smallpox vaccines.
Of course though, if they are going to make you think vaccines are bad, then they are going to have to gaslight you into thinking that you didn’t get that many vaccines when you were a kid.
“Since the enactment of the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, which provides a liability shield for vaccine manufacturers, the vaccination schedule has multiplied considerably.”
Vax-Unvax by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Chapter 1 Page 1)
And then they are going to make you think our kids get too many vaccines!
Of course, it is easy to see that the vaccine schedule didn’t change all that much after the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act.
It certainly didn’t explode or multiply as much as these folks what you to think.
What changed?
Over the next twenty years, we did get Varivax (1996), the hepatitis A vaccine (1996), Prevnar (2000), Flumist (2004), Menactra (2005), Tdap (2006), RotaTeq (2006), and Gardasil (2006), so only three new shots for younger children.
“Today, children following the CDC-recommended vaccination schedule receive a minimum of seventy-three shots for seventeen different diseases, with a whopping twenty-eight injections by their first birthday.”
Vax-Unvax by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Chapter 1 Page 1)
Kids don’t get 73 shots…
To get to 73 shots, these folks boost the count to make it look scarier by counting the DTaP, MMR, and Tdap vaccines as three separate shots each, even though they aren’t available as individual vaccines anymore.
“Despite this huge increase in vaccination, researchers have done very little to study the health of these children, either in the short term or the long term.”
Vax-Unvax by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Chapter 1 Page 2)
Although Kennedy won’t tell you about them, there have been:
- long-term studies on vaccine safety
- studies that look for long-term health problems
- studies in which vaccines are tested together
- double-blind, placebo-controlled randomized clinical trials
- double-blind, placebo-controlled randomized clinical trials that use saline placebos
- studies with vaccinated vs unvaccinated kids
Studies that show that vaccines are safe, with few risks.
“Despite Dr. Fauci’s warning, FDA clinical safety studies generally last for a relatively short duration, precluding the detection of long-term health effects. For example, researchers monitored vaccine recipients in the Engerix-B (hepatitis B) clinic trial for adverse events for only four days after injection. Similarly, researchers monitored vaccine recipients in the Infanrix (DTaP) clinical trial for adverse events for only four days after injection.”
Vax-Unvax by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Chapter 1 Page 3)
So I got to top of the third page when I hit the fifth lie…
While the package insert lists the “Data on solicited local reactions and general adverse reactions were collected by parents using standardized diary cards for 4 consecutive days following each vaccine dose,” there is plenty of evidence that these vaccines were tested for more than four days.
The old myth that vaccines are only tested for 4 days…
Fact Checking Vax-Unvax – Let the Science Speak Book
It shouldn’t be a surprise that a book by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr is full of anti-vaccine talking points.
It’s been nearly 20 years since his “error-laced” Deadly Immunity expose about vaccines and autism was retracted in Rolling Stone.
And instead of stopping then, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. double-downed and moved from just talking about thimerosal and autism to joining the all vaccines are bad side of the anti-vaccine world, although of course, he isn’t really anti-vaccine.
That he chose a study survey that was retracted – the Mawson study survey – for chapter two of Vax-Unvax says all you need to know about him and this book. There is also the fact that he left out all of the vaccinated vs unvaccinated studies that didn’t fit his narrative!
Want to fact check the chapters on Thimerosal, live virus vaccines, HPV vaccines, vaccines and gulf war illness, flu vaccines, DTP vaccines, hepatitis B vaccines, COVID-19 vaccines, or vaccines in pregnancy? If I haven’t already written an article refuting the misinformation, I’m sure someone else has.
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Last Updated on March 20, 2024
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