Correcting this week’s misinformation: week of June 25 2026

In the 1980s and 1990s, Japan gave babies the measles vaccine separately. Japan also waited until babies were 2 years old to give the measles vaccine and the DTaP vaccine. Some anti-vaccine groups claim this made SIDS disappear in Japan.

In the video, Pierre Kory says that SIDS rates went down because babies started getting some vaccines at an older age.

But the timing does not match. Japan changed the vaccine schedule in 1981, but SIDS rates kept going up until 1998. That year, Japan started a program to teach parents about safer infant sleep and how to lower a baby’s risk of SIDS.

So, the evidence does not show that the vaccine schedule change caused SIDS rates to go down. Also, a worldwide study found that vaccinated children had a lower risk of SIDS than children who were not vaccinated.

Peter McCullough’s group claims that Louisiana records show vaccinated two-month-old babies are 112% more likely to die.

The claim seems to come from a paper by Karl Jablonowski and Brian Hooker of Children’s Health Defense, titled Increased Mortality Associated with 2-Month Old Infant Vaccinations.

The paper was a preprint, which means it was shared online before other scientists carefully checked it for mistakes. In peer review, experts look at a study’s methods, data, and conclusions to see if they are strong and fair.

This paper was not peer reviewed. Instead, the paper was posted on Preprints.org in December 2025, but it was removed from the website in January 2026. After it was removed, the authors uploaded it somewhere else. When you look closely at how the authors studied the numbers, there are some big problems.

First, they do not explain the medical reasons that the children died. Without knowing what caused the children’s deaths, there is no way to know whether vaccines had anything to do with them.

Second, they used a very narrow definition of “vaccinated.” This means they counted children as vaccinated only during a short period. They ignored children who got vaccines before or after that time period. That can make the results misleading because it leaves out a lot of information.

Third, there are problems with their confidence intervals, which are ranges of numbers scientists use to show how sure or unsure they are about a result. Their confidence intervals cross over 0. When a confidence interval crosses 0, it usually means the result could have happened by random chance. In science, this is called not statistically significant. Their results are not strong enough to say that it probably did not happen by chance. In other words, it could be a coincidence.

The authors do not clearly explain this problem, even though it undermines everything they say in the paper.

A new claim says that the aluminum used in some vaccines is not the same as the aluminum found in food or nature. It says this aluminum is changed in a lab and then injected into the bloodstream. The claim argues that the body reacts strongly to it, and that this reaction could be linked to allergies, autism, and other health problems.

No matter how aluminum gets into your body, a small amount can end up in your blood. If you eat or drink aluminum from food, some of it can pass from your stomach and intestines into your blood. From there, your body sends it to the kidneys and liver. These organs help filter and remove things your body does not need.

Some vaccines also contain small amounts of aluminum salts. Aluminum salts are forms of aluminum, such as aluminum hydroxide or aluminum phosphate. They are added to some vaccines as an adjuvant. An adjuvant is an ingredient that helps the vaccine work better by helping the immune system notice and respond to the vaccine.

Vaccines with aluminum are not injected straight into the bloodstream. They are usually given into a muscle or under the skin. Over time, the aluminum can move into the blood as the body processes it and sends it to the kidneys and liver.

Aluminum has been used in some vaccines for many decades. The article says aluminum adjuvants have a safety record of more than 60 years. Because we are exposed to aluminum in food every day, but only get vaccines once in a while, most of the aluminum that enters the blood comes from our diet, not vaccines.