Why do some people think that vaccines are the number one cause of chronic disease in America?
The usual suspects?
Are Vaccines the Number One Cause of Chronic Disease in America?
Steve Kirsch certainly seems to think so.
And so do his followers!
Of course, he also did a survey of his readers.
"And vaccines are also the #1 cause of sexual orientation issues."
New survey confirms that vaccines are, by far, the #1 cause of chronic disease in America
So what should you make of these polls and surveys?
If you have been paying attention, you already know what to make of these kinds of polls and surveys...
That's right.
Asking the followers of someone who pushes anti-vaccine information if they think vaccines are bad is like going into a flat earth group and asking if the earth is flat!
You understand how sampling or ascertainment bias can easily mess up the results of a survey and that's why you ignore these types of surveys.
Vaccinated vs Unvaccinated Studies
And the peer review literature that backs up his survey results?
They aren't any of the vaccinated vs unvaccinated studies I have talked about before...
"My results were consistent with numbers published in the peer-reviewed literature. There is a tab on the spreadsheet for you to verify for yourself. So you can gaslight me all you want, but you need to explain why the numbers were so consistent if my survey was not “scientific” or was biased."
New survey confirms that vaccines are, by far, the #1 cause of chronic disease in America
Steve Kirsch is basically referencing The Control Group Pilot Survey of Unvaccinated Americans.
"Because the subpopulation of the entirely unvaccinated individuals in the US is such a small minority, to encourage participation, survey notices were posted on social media outlets, podcasts, and radio broadcasts across the nation, and even in foreign countries. Also, in-person surveys were conducted in key population centers. On the whole, these methods produced a robust and representative sample of the population of interest."
Health versus Disorder, Disease, and Death:Unvaccinated Persons Are Incommensurably Healthier than Vaccinated
Yes, survey of a population of interest. Folks who are unvaccinated because they have likely skipped or delayed getting themselves and their kids vaccinated because of all of the misinformation about vaccines they heard in the anti-vaccine social media outlets, podcasts, and radio broadcasts they were listening too.
"Right there, the sample is biased beyond hope. Who saw this recruiting pitch? Antivaxxers who frequent antivaccine Facebook pages, other social media, and websites, that’s who. That’s a sample of people who will, by their very antivaccine nature, be biased in the direction of thinking that vaccines cause chronic health problems."
“The Control Group”: A litigation-driven antivaccine survey of the “unvaccinated”
Who else does Kirsch reference?
If you think he was getting to the bottom of the barrel by referencing Ben Tapper, Kirsch went a little further down and dug up the vaccinated vs unvaccinated study from Paul Thomas. He's the guy that told parents they didn't need to be afraid of COVID because only 'one in a billion children' were dying of COVID.
"They published a crappy study based on a metric they made up that hasn’t been validated elsewhere and use that to claim that “vaxxed” children are much less healthy than “unvaxxed” children, when in fact the data we have suggest emphatically that the opposite is true."
Even COVID-19 can’t stop antivaxxers from publishing crappy “vaxxed/unvaxxed” studies
What did his study show? That unvaccinated kids in his office suffered from more vaccine-preventable diseases than those who were vaccinated!
"Every single study comparing fully vaccinated vs. unvaccinated shows the unvaccinated are healthier. So even if my survey is “biased” it is clearly directionally correct. Society has a tough time dealing with the truth. That’s the fundamental problem."
New survey confirms that vaccines are, by far, the #1 cause of chronic disease in America
Has Steve Kirsch heard about the “Vaccination Status and Health in Children and Adolescents Findings of the German Health Interview and Examination Survey for Children and Adolescents (KiGGS),” a vaccinated vs unvaccinated study which looked at “whether unvaccinated children and adolescents differ from those vaccinated in terms of health?” It didn't find that unvaccinated kids were healthier than vaccinated kids, only that they suffered from more vaccine preventable diseases.
And while Kirsch and Tenpenny might think everyone can simply stop getting vaccinated and nothing will happen, we know what happens when immunization rates drop.
We see outbreaks. People suffer. And then immunization rates finally increase again.
Let's stop that cycle and get everyone vaccinated and protected and prevent those outbreaks from happening.
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- The misleading claims of anti-vaccine Steve Kirsch — a review
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- Testimony by Steve Kirsch on the alleged harms of vaccination relies on flawed, biased analyses
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- The perils and pitfalls of doing a “vaccinated versus unvaccinated” study
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