anti-vax
Conspiracy theories tagged "anti-vax."
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Anti-Vaccination Movement
The anti-vaccination movement from its 18th-century origins to the modern era. Examining claims about vaccine safety, the Wakefield fraud, and the evidence.
Vaccine–Autism Link
The debunked claim that vaccines cause autism, originating from Andrew Wakefield's fraudulent 1998 study. The evidence, the fraud, and the fallout.
COVID Vaccine Spike Protein Shedding
The claim that vaccinated individuals 'shed' spike proteins, infecting unvaccinated people nearby and causing menstrual irregularities, miscarriages, and other health effects — debunked by immunology and virology.
MMR Vaccine & The Wakefield Fraud
Andrew Wakefield's fraudulent 1998 Lancet study falsely linking the MMR vaccine to autism, its retraction, and the global anti-vaccination movement it spawned.
Thimerosal / Mercury in Vaccines
The claim that thimerosal (ethylmercury preservative) in vaccines causes autism and neurological damage. Despite massive studies involving millions of children, no causal link has ever been found.
VAERS Data Manipulation & Vaccine Deaths
How anti-vaccine activists weaponized the VAERS database to claim COVID-19 vaccines killed thousands — misrepresenting a passive reporting system designed to detect safety signals, not prove causation.