Post : How Misinformation About Vaccines is Created?
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Posted : March 27, 2024 at 9:42 am
Author : Vincent Iannelli, MD
Tags : Ben Tapper, covid vaccines, Disinformation Dozen, febrile seizures, misinformation, propaganda, Robert F Kennedy, seizures
Categories : Vaxopedia

Do you ever wonder how so much misinformation about vaccines is created?

[link removed] Somehow, a study about febrile seizures got turned into a headline about deadly seizures! And a call to take COVID vaccines off the childhood schedule even as COVID has lately been a leading cause of death for children ( [link removed] ) .

And just who is responsible for creating it?

Who is Creating All of the Misinformation About Vaccines?

Well, you probably already know who is responsible for creating and spreading most of the misinformation about vaccines we see.

* A Dozen Misguided Influencers Spread Most of the Anti-Vaccination Content on Social Media ( [link removed] )

* Just 12 People Are Behind Most Vaccine Hoaxes On Social Media, Research Shows ( [link removed] )

* The Disinformation Dozen: An Exploratory Analysis of Covid-19 Disinformation Proliferation on Twitter ( [link removed] )

* One Year of COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation on Twitter: Longitudinal Study ( [link removed] )

* The “Disinformation Dozen” vs. public health ( [link removed] )

* The “Disinformation Dozen” spreading anti-vaccine messaging on social media ( [link removed] )

* Will ‘Dr. Disinformation’ Ever Face the Music? ( [link removed] )

* It’s Not Just the Disinformation Dozen ( [link removed] )

For all of their talk of being censored and deplatformed, you are probably not too surprised to know that most of these folks are still around.

And of course, one of them, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. ( [link removed] ) is running for president!

How Misinformation About Vaccines is Created

To get back on track though, let's see how they create the misinformation they spread.

Note Ben Tapper's post above in which he calls for COVID vaccines to be "taken off the childhood schedule!"

Why?

Tapper wants you to think it is because of claims about the FDA and deadly seizures, but his only evidence is an unlinked pic of a news article from a website in Thailand...

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It is very telling that he doesn't link to the actual study ( [link removed] ) that has prompted any of the recent posts about COVID shots and seizures ( [link removed] ) in children.

So what does that study ( [link removed] ) say?

[link removed] For one thing, the study ( [link removed] ) doesn't say anything about "deadly seizures!"

The study ( [link removed] ) found that young child have a small risk of developing febrile seizures after getting a COVID vaccine.

> "Among children aged 2-5 years, the analysis showed a small elevated incidence rate ratio of febrile seizures in the 0-1 days following the mRNA-1273 vaccination."
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> Evaluation of Febrile Seizure Risk Following Ancestral Monovalent COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination Among U.S. Children Aged 2-5 Years

Febrile seizures which are not deadly and which they are probably more likely to get after a natural COVID infection ( [link removed] ) . Importantly, some of those kids have prolonged or complex febrile seizures ( [link removed] ) , including febrile status epilepticus, when they get sick with COVID!

Do you see how these folks create propaganda about vaccines ( [link removed] ) to scare you ( [link removed] ) away from getting vaccinated and protected?

[link removed] NVIC left out that they were talking about febrile seizures ( [link removed] ) in their scary headline and they both left out that the study found that the "absolute risk was small."

Propaganda that then gets laundered across all of their websites and social media accounts to make it seem like whatever they are talking about is really newsworthy.

More on Propaganda About Vaccines

( [link removed] ) How Many People Have Died After Listening to Bad Advice About COVID? ( [link removed] )

* Ask 8 Questions Before You Skip a Vaccine ( [link removed] )

* More Questions to Help You Become a Vaccine Skeptic ( [link removed] )

* What Are the Greatest Tricks Anti-Vaccine Folks Use to Persuade Parents to Skip Vaccines? ( [link removed] )

* How Quickly Can You Debunk Anti-Vaccine Propaganda? ( [link removed] )

* Choose to Stop Spreading Anti-Vaccine Propaganda ( [link removed] )

* Evaluation of Febrile Seizure Risk Following Ancestral Monovalent COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination Among U.S. Children Aged 2-5 Years ( [link removed] )

* The Anti-Vaccine Propaganda of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. ( [link removed] )

* Defying rules, anti-vaccine accounts thrive on social media ( [link removed] )

* Where Anti-Vaccine Propaganda Went When YouTube Banned It ( [link removed] )

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