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Tag Archives: anti vaccine arguments
Vaccines are tested against placebos
Lately, my Facebook page has been flooded with people insisting that “no vaccine is tested against a placebo” (sometimes stated with additional qualifiers like “double-blind” or “saline placebo”). This claim, like so many anti-vaccer claims, is blatantly false. Nevertheless, I … Continue reading
Posted in Nature of Science, Vaccines/Alternative Medicine
Tagged anti vaccine arguments, autism, Bad arguments, covid, evaluating evidence, peer-reviewed studies, Vaccines
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Debunking 30 bad arguments about COVID/vaccines
The COVID era has been a golden age of misinformation. It has seen the development of innumerable false claims and shoddy arguments, and it has breathed new life into ancient anti-vaccine tropes. Indeed, I find it impossible to make any … Continue reading
Posted in Vaccines/Alternative Medicine
Tagged anti vaccine arguments, Bad arguments, covid, peer-reviewed studies, Safety, Vaccines
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Future (“long-term”) side effects from COVID vaccines are extremely unlikely
Concern over unknown, future side effects is by far the most common reason I hear people give for why they aren’t vaccinating against COVID. At a quick glance, that may seem reasonable, but when you start really looking into the … Continue reading
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Tagged anti vaccine arguments, Bad arguments, evaluating evidence, Safety, Vaccines
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The “99% survive COVID” argument is deceptive and completely misses the point
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the argument that “99% of COVID patients survive” has been repeatedly used as an excuse to oppose public health measures including mask mandates, lockdowns, and, more recently, vaccines. It asserts that because COVID has a ~99% … Continue reading
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Tagged anti vaccine arguments, Bad arguments, covid, Safety, Vaccines
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The “it’s banned in Europe” fallacy
The title of this post is written somewhat in jest because this is not a formally recognized fallacy; nevertheless, it is a very common line of reasoning that is logically flawed and very closely aligned with multiple fallacies. The argument, … Continue reading
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