Misleading claims about vaccines are a real health concern. Here is a collection of reports and fact checks that analyze claims — some of them outright conspiracy theories — about vaccination.
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Some great fiction has been penned about vaccines in the internet era.
by Alex Kasprak, Jan. 18, 2017
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Misleading claims about vaccines are a real health concern. Here is a collection of reports and fact checks that analyze claims — some of them outright conspiracy theories — about vaccination.
By Alex Kasprak
Alex Kasprak is an investigative journalist and science writer reporting on scientific misinformation, online fraud, and financial crime.
May 17, 2017
This study, with its suspect statistics and devil-may-care attitude toward methodological design ...
Dec. 8, 2018
Judy Mikovits did not discover a deadly virus delivered through vaccines; she was arrested for a ...
Jan. 21, 2019
A deep dive into some misleading statements contained in a recent “Full Measure” segment produce ...
July 17, 2018
An attention-grabbing headline mischaracterized actual polio vaccine contamination in the 1950s ...
Feb. 16, 2017
Despite arguments that vaccines are to blame for rising peanut allergies, the claim that peanut ...
May 15, 2017
This claim, made by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is a solid illustration of why scale and context matt ...
March 10, 2017
The computer magnate believes that vaccines can be used to reduce childhood mortality and ultima ...
Jan. 18, 2017
A controversial film suggests that 35,000 servicemembers died from anthrax vaccinations, but we ...