Vaccines are the leading cause of coincidence

For years people believed autism was caused vaccines thanks to a fraudulent paper published by Andrew Wakefield. We now know from numerous studies that it’s not true. In this video, Dr Susan Oliver and Cindy the dog go back to science, and explain how scientists are able to use databases like VAERS and the Yellow Card scheme to distinguish between adverse events caused by vaccines and adverse events that are just coincidences.

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Chapters:

0:00 Introduction
0:14 Vaccines and autism
1:59 Nocebo effect
5:21 VAERS and Yellow Card Scheme
7:10 Crazy VAERS reports
9:54 Neurological events after vaccine or infection
13:29 Athletes and cardiac arrests
14:43 Summary

Links to data:

Lancet retracts 12-year-old article linking autism to MMR vaccines
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2831678/

A timeline of the Wakefield retraction
https://www.nature.com/articles/nm0310-248b

Autism: I was diagnosed at 60
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220405-the-life-changing-diagnosis-of-autism-in-later-life

Frequency of Adverse Events in the Placebo Arms of COVID-19 Vaccine Trials - A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2788172

Adverse events of active and placebo groups in SARS-CoV-2 vaccine randomized trials: A systematic review
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanepe/article/PIIS2666-7762(21)00239-8/fulltext

Spreadsheet of crazy VAERS reports
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cM7y0QMfgRDJgF7REMV3LgAoR6Bm4s-vOKkSx3T5MhE/edit#gid=0

Association between covid-19 vaccination, SARS-CoV-2 infection, and risk of immune mediated neurological events: population based cohort and self-controlled case series analysis
https://www.bmj.com/content/376/bmj-2021-068373
FIFA Sudden Death Registry (FIFA-SDR): a prospective, observational study of sudden death in worldwide football from 2014 to 2018
https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/56/2/80.long