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Everything You Need to Know About Vaccines
This is a full feature 740 page Book includes the CDC schedule, every insert for the CDC recommended vaccines and the ingredients that are found in vaccines.
760 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 6, 2019
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February 19, 2023
When you see a book touted as the one "true" guide to a subject, a red flag should go up. It turns out that Franklin's views rate a whole sea of red flags.
Franklin brags about her "years of research" in coming to the conclusion that vaccines are Bad. The term "research" is often misused by antivaxers in this fashion. Actual peer reviewed, published research is mischaracterized or more often, ignored in favor of Googling to find rants on antivax websites and social media by like-minded people.
Franklin blames not only her "issues" and her family's "issues" on vaccines, but also "the problems drastically arising in our country". Apparently we can trace inflation, joblessness, crime, obesity and other problems to vaccines!
Standard antivax memes abound in this book, including reliance on vaccine package inserts (which are drug company CYA and do not demonstrate that a side effect was caused by a vaccine), and exaggerations about the number of recommended vaccines. Franklin claims that 22 vaccines are now recommended instead of 7 in the 1980s. Well, the actual number of recommended vaccines on the 2023 pediatric vaccine schedule from birth to age eighteen is 13 vaccines, not 22. Rational folks would applaud the idea that in the intervening decades, we've added protection against additional dangerous and life-threatening diseases like Hib meningitis, pneumococcal pneumonia and cancer-causing human papillomavirus. Franklin instead thinks that it's part of a nefarious plan by drug companies (this presumes that no one who works for a drug company has children or other relatives whose health they want to protect).
Franklin promises to update her masterwork in coming years. If that happens, it'd be useful to correct all the bogus antivaccine tropes the book uses.
Franklin brags about her "years of research" in coming to the conclusion that vaccines are Bad. The term "research" is often misused by antivaxers in this fashion. Actual peer reviewed, published research is mischaracterized or more often, ignored in favor of Googling to find rants on antivax websites and social media by like-minded people.
Franklin blames not only her "issues" and her family's "issues" on vaccines, but also "the problems drastically arising in our country". Apparently we can trace inflation, joblessness, crime, obesity and other problems to vaccines!
Standard antivax memes abound in this book, including reliance on vaccine package inserts (which are drug company CYA and do not demonstrate that a side effect was caused by a vaccine), and exaggerations about the number of recommended vaccines. Franklin claims that 22 vaccines are now recommended instead of 7 in the 1980s. Well, the actual number of recommended vaccines on the 2023 pediatric vaccine schedule from birth to age eighteen is 13 vaccines, not 22. Rational folks would applaud the idea that in the intervening decades, we've added protection against additional dangerous and life-threatening diseases like Hib meningitis, pneumococcal pneumonia and cancer-causing human papillomavirus. Franklin instead thinks that it's part of a nefarious plan by drug companies (this presumes that no one who works for a drug company has children or other relatives whose health they want to protect).
Franklin promises to update her masterwork in coming years. If that happens, it'd be useful to correct all the bogus antivaccine tropes the book uses.
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