{"id":10274,"date":"2024-02-22T16:17:14","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T22:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/?post_type=jtf_topics&p=10274"},"modified":"2024-07-21T13:47:14","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T18:47:14","slug":"are-unvaccinated-people-actually-healthier","status":"publish","type":"jtf_topics","link":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/jtf_topics\/are-unvaccinated-people-actually-healthier\/","title":{"rendered":"Are unvaccinated people actually healthier?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In a long thread misrepresenting research about antidepressants, a known\u00a0anti-vaxxer\u00a0<\/a>cites other research claiming that unvaccinated people are healthier than vaccinated people, in terms of allergies, neurodivergence, and eczema.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_custom_heading text=”The Facts:” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text css=””]One refrain you often hear from anti-vaxxers is \u201cfollow the money.\u201d So we did, and we found that this\u00a0study<\/a>\u00a0was funded by two different anti-vaccine organizations\u00a0(Generation Rescue, Inc., and the Children\u2019s Medical Safety Research Institute). The study,\u00a0which was\u00a0retracted<\/a>\u00a0a month after it was published, relied on surveys sent out to parents of homeschooled children. They didn\u2019t specify how many people were eligible to take the survey, but they only received 415 responses.<\/p>\n

One concern about their methods is\u00a0self-selection bias<\/a>, or volunteer bias, in which participants can decide whether or not to participate in the study. Additionally, the home-schooling population is not representative of the general population, and some reasons to homeschool include a \u201cdesire to provide moral instruction\u201d and \u201cchild has special needs<\/a>\u201d or other health problems.<\/p>\n

Along with self-selection bias, a study design like this introduces other biases such as\u00a0recall bias<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0reporting bias<\/a>. The study itself shows that the unvaccinated group was less likely to seek medical or dental care and less likely to use medications. They might also have a different perception of illness or neurological disorders than someone from the vaccinated group.<\/p>\n

A study this small with so many clear biases needs to be discarded (or retracted\u2013which it was).[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Claims that unvaccinated people are healthier are based on a retracted, biased study. Proper research shows no health advantage for the unvaccinated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":0,"template":"","jtf_topic_subjects":[199,218],"class_list":["post-10274","jtf_topics","type-jtf_topics","status-publish","hentry","jtf_topic_subjects-childhood-vaccines","jtf_topic_subjects-vaccine-safety","entry","no-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topics\/10274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/jtf_topics"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topics\/10274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10358,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topics\/10274\/revisions\/10358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"jtf_topic_subjects","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topic_subjects?post=10274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}