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Episode 40 - A Shot In the Dark Episode 14 - The MMR Vaccine

Episode 40 - A Shot In the Dark Episode 14 - The MMR Vaccine

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This Episode focuses on debunking Candace Owens on the MMR vaccine and her quite wild, entirely bogus claims about it.

Link Stack

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/15/candace-owens-australia-visa-00608983

Candace Owens Got Barred From Australia!

https://www.chop.edu/vaccine-education-center/vaccine-safety/vaccines-and-other-conditions/autism

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) on Vaccines and Autism

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/anti-vaccine-moms-speak-out-amid-fierce-backlash/

CBS News article that Candace references in episode

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/measles-cluster-at-daycare-center-the-latest-cause-for-concern/

Article about measles at a Daycare center, linked from CBS in link #2

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/latest-measles-outbreak-is-a-wake-up-call/

Linked from #3 above, discusses how The latest outbreak of measles at Disneyland was a wake-up call for vaccination but was not the worst case to that point.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ohio-measles-outbreak-spreads-to-record-level/

This was the worst outbreak of measles in two decades and it happened in 2014 in Amish Country in Ohio

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt2594742

60 Minutes episode from November 12, 2000 featuring the mentioned story about Nicholas Wildman and the MMR vaccine

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/doctor-blames-discredited-autism-vaccine-link-research-for-measles-outbreak

CBS News Follow Up from 2015

https://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.c5347.full

British Medical Journal article by Brian Deer, reporting long form on the case against Andrew Wakefield

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmcZ_ZQQrcc

Part 1 of Behind the Bastards on YouTube about the Grifters Behind the Fake Autism Cure Industry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtA_Zwca354&utm_source=perplexity

Part 2 of the BtB episode

https://data.cdc.gov/Public-Health-Surveillance/autism-prevalence-studies/9mw4-6adp/about_data

CDC Source for Autism Tables presented

https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/students-needs-drive-expanding-costs-of-149229.php

Stamford Advocate on Students Needs in outplacement programs

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6406a5.htm

CDC Page About the California Measles Outbreak report, from 2015 at Disneyland

https://www.cdc.gov/chickenpox/vaccination-impact/index.html

Link to CDC article on the Chickenpox vaccine success

https://www.cdc.gov/shingles/about/index.html

CDC Article on Shingles

https://cdn.jamanetwork.com/ama/content_public/journal/jama/5245/joc70121t1.png?Expires=1763665635&Signature=veDvxnjN6gU4mTuuuvijwXSdRsTUuWkMsla-BaFafvzbDNF4h9eRs4lu0sqWhqsVdmdL81wOB2pa0jaHOzs8S-~QtePruLX8qStJCagtUcT1xY0MM9XnOFvaa95e-HzLdV5zih9HoB5xb3Uht9Na-njjgK6~EExOTUEcfVnwGdNC11IOP6HtWhEtGHEiAJQuqZWx6R9L4qTZrsSg3~MBJc~PITHLEsP1j3B2QG8MJms8m7n6abz285ZYUMTCbpcyAGrcJBzIY5X-NVn8h5fPbwWqJrUu~egXqg6as43r3l32aIVb29A4GD6-PcieXCXXUHflTzWmmjhcaHfwNY~nZw__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAIE5G5CRDK6RD3PGA

Huge Link to the Journal of American Medicine chart Candace Owens uses to lie.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/209448

Full article attached to image link above

https://www.cdc.gov/pinkbook/hcp/table-of-contents/chapter-13-measles.html

CDC Pink Book Chapter on Measles

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/15007-mumps

Cleveland Clinic on the Mumps

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/rubella/symptoms-causes/syc-20377310

Mayo Clinic on Rubella

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK448191

NIH on Varicella/Chickenpox

https://www.fda.gov/files/vaccines%2C%20blood%20%26%20biologics/published/Package-Insert-Measles-Mumps-and-Rubella-Virus-Vaccine-Live_2.pdf

MMR Vaccine Insert

https://www.healthychildren.org/English/health-issues/conditions/fever/Pages/Febrile-Seizures.aspx

Simple resource on Febrile Seizures

https://historyofvaccines.org/blog/the-horror-of-german-measl

es-in-the-1960s-and-today

History of Vaccines on the deadliness of Rubella

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