Behind the Bastards Part Three: Dr. Bob: Maybe Even worse at being a Doctor than Andrew Wakefield
Feb 21, 2019
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Dr. Bob's Profitable Vaccine Doubt
- Dr. Bob Sears profits by exploiting vaccine fears while maintaining a medical license.
- He offers a "safer" vaccine schedule, avoiding outright anti-vax labels but fueling doubt.
Vaccines Protect Individually and Socially
- Vaccines prevent individual and community illness, despite claims like polio risk being zero.
- Imported cases can cause outbreaks if vaccination rates drop, proving herd immunity's importance.
Misusing VAERS to Inflate Risks
- Dr. Bob misuses VAERS data to inflate the risk of severe vaccine reactions.
- His 1 in 2,600 risk claim defies science and misleads parents with cherry-picked statistics.