Harvard researchers predict an 83% surge in childhood hepatitis B infections. But their alarming forecast rests on unverified assumptions that the New York Times failed to scrutinise.
[Researchers from Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital predict that allowing parents and doctors greater discretion over vaccination could decrease the amount of money the pharmaceutical industry make by a staggering amount.]
How did we Gen Xers survive our childhood without this shot? Where is there any evidence whatsoever that population-wide Hep B vaccination - at any age - in the U.S. is now or ever was needed?
The highly conditional model gets turned into “could” in the headline, “would” in the sub-headline, and on social media has probably become “Lunatic Kennedy’s killing babies!”
How such papers get published is beyond me. I would make the following prediction. If hepB vaccination in childhood were restricted to babies of hepB positive mothers, and regular hepB vaccination was only started in children’s teenage years, I would predict with full confidence that there would be absolutely zero increase in childhood chronic hepB .
These researchers appear to be graduates of the Neil Ferguson "Master of Disaster" school of epidemiology. It's truly amazing how these propagandists can keep churning out more and more horse manure, even after piles of previous horse manure they published has been exposed by its massive stink!
[Researchers from Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital predict that allowing parents and doctors greater discretion over vaccination could decrease the amount of money the pharmaceutical industry make by a staggering amount.]
Fixed that for you :)
How did we Gen Xers survive our childhood without this shot? Where is there any evidence whatsoever that population-wide Hep B vaccination - at any age - in the U.S. is now or ever was needed?
The highly conditional model gets turned into “could” in the headline, “would” in the sub-headline, and on social media has probably become “Lunatic Kennedy’s killing babies!”
10/21/26: "WOLF! WOLF! WOLF!" (This never ends.)
How such papers get published is beyond me. I would make the following prediction. If hepB vaccination in childhood were restricted to babies of hepB positive mothers, and regular hepB vaccination was only started in children’s teenage years, I would predict with full confidence that there would be absolutely zero increase in childhood chronic hepB .
These researchers appear to be graduates of the Neil Ferguson "Master of Disaster" school of epidemiology. It's truly amazing how these propagandists can keep churning out more and more horse manure, even after piles of previous horse manure they published has been exposed by its massive stink!