#vaccine #pediatrics Today's post will be about the antivax tactic, re-interpreting randomness. It essentially means that the antivaxxer takes many unrelated events and pins them together on all one cause (vaccines do it all according to them). A modern example - COVID vaccine side effects. - ThreadSky

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hanfrancis.bsky.social • 196 days ago

#vaccine #pediatrics

Today's post will be about the antivax tactic, re-interpreting randomness. It essentially means that the antivaxxer takes many unrelated events and pins them together on all one cause (vaccines do it all according to them). A modern example - COVID vaccine side effects.

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hanfrancis.bsky.social•196 days ago

In the first few years of the COVID vaccine rollout, there have been large accounts on Twitter (and pundits) trying to tie every imaginable cardiac side effect to COVID vaccines, despite the statistics only supporting COVID vaccine myocarditis. They will relate every single disease...

hanfrancis.bsky.social•196 days ago

from heart attacks, to amyloidosis, to ARVC, to the COVID vaccine, even if the person in question was unvaccinated. These Now that you the reader know this tactic, go forth and look out for when antivaxxers use it.

mtmcg.bsky.social•195 days ago

I expect their parents had them vaccinated. Shame, it could have cleared that particular trait out of the gene pool.

gandalfpc.bsky.social•195 days ago

The same ploy as Flat Earthers, Creationists, global heating deniers et al.

jakernory.bsky.social•195 days ago

You are describing confirmation bias and false consensus bias…

hanfrancis.bsky.social•195 days ago

Sure there could be an argument for overlap. Another example of "re-interpreting randomness" relevant to vaccines is the finding of metal contamination of a certain batch of COVID vaccines https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/contaminant-moderna-covid-19-vaccine-vials-found-japan-was-metallic-particles-report . This was misconstrued as evidence of poor safety of all vaccines.

jakernory.bsky.social•195 days ago

The original article is missing from the source.

The source for “metallic” is unnamed.

But it seems like there is contamination…

The effects of which are unclear

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