Why ANTIVAXXERS are wrong about placebo vaccine trials

Antivaxxers keep banging on that vaccines haven’t been tested against saline placebos. Dr Susan Oliver and Cindy the dog go back to the science and explain that they are just demonstrating their ignorance of the correct way to evaluate medical products and monitor safety.

Buy me a coffee (or Cindy a treat)

Links to Data:

WMA Declaration of Helsinki – Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects

Phases of clinical trials

Edmonston B and a further attenuated measles vaccine – a placebo controlled double blind comparison.

Field evaluation of live virus mumps vaccine

FREQUENCY OF TRUE ADVERSE REACTIONS TO MEASLES-MUMPS-RUBELLA VACCINE: A Double-blind Placebo-controlled Trial in Twins

Measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine at age 6 months and hospitalisation for infection before age 12 months: randomised controlled trial

Quadrivalent Vaccine against Human Papillomavirus to Prevent High-Grade Cervical Lesions

Safety of Vaccines Used for Routine Immunization in the United States: An Update

[freelanzr]

My Aunt became an anti-vaxxer between her first and second Moderna shots.... She never got another shot, after that first one.

[DrMarkHShapiro]

Thanks for another excellent video Dr. Oliver. This one is a GEM OF CLARITY! Your comments about the placebo results for the first polio vaccine study are especially important now the we here in the United States have deal with a notorious anti-vaxxer running for the highest office in the land!

[beachdancer]

What I don't understand is the hatred antivaxxers show towards overweight or very tall agricultural workers. They never stop blaming everything on Big Farmer.

[das]

" unless you're an asshole, you don't want to do this " ... Gold

[Lily-Bravo]

Thank you Doc Susan for another straight talking video. Your speciality delights as usual. Love the hair cut as well.

[stevewaugh]

Very informative, thank you Dr Oliver. I really appreciate your hard work. Please keep making these.

[gilessb]

This is absolute gold - another antivaxxer "talking point" destroyed by Dr Oliver

[samsmith]

Dr Oliver you explained the subject very well thank you. It’s a shame the anti-vaccine league will not take it onboard. The only thing they do understand
Is the voices in their heads.

[aq]

One comment on Campbell's latest video reads "My D 3 was 364 my dr freaked.can’t take any for at least 2 years!N0 side effects though." 🤨Campbell told his viewers he is taking 8000iu daily in a video earlier this year, the guest on his latest video was taking the same dose. The BMJ had a press release last year warning that Hypervitaminosis D on the rise. Why might that be, I wonder?

[martifingers]

Not often you can get educated, empowered and laugh out loud at the perfectly placed stinging satire.
Actually now I think about it, for Dr Oliver this is just business as usual.

[CupOfSweetTea]

I haven't seen antivaxer claim this, but them misunderstanding this would not surprise me. I think the bigger misunderstanding is phase 4 trials, where they think an ongoing phase 4 means it's not been tested.

[Nora-Can]

Thank you as always! And I loved the added Cindy content at the end!

[VroomTheSpaceApe]

“Anti vaxers don’t understand …”
Nailed it. This has been the obvious problem of all the antivaxer issues that I have seen.

[BiggerFish_]

@TroyKanta is doing us a favor by continuously deleting himself. We won't miss him. Thank you very much.

[markstuckey]

4:46 made me laugh.
Thank you Dr, Oliver for a very clear explanation, once again.

[brucecanny]

woo hoo!!! 10K!!! a big woo hoo for covering woo woo. Thanks Dr. Susan and Cindy.

[samanthagrave]

Thankyou dr susan, once again, your vidoes are so valuable

[mark]

I find it sad that this sort of information has to be spelled out to these people.

Given the number of (seemingly) well educated people that exhibit a complete lack of understanding about this issue, I find it hard to judge whether they really: are that ignorant; are malicious promoters of misinformation (retired nurse Campbell); or, are just latching on to a convenient bandwagon - because that's what they do.

Really well put together video. Even the arseholes should be able, albeit unwilling, to comprehend it.

[MG]

Thank you Dr Susan Oliver. For the Algorithm. Enjoy your evening. 🦘🦘🦘 Regards from the UK. 🌹🌹🌹

[wallis]

I love you Susan. Keep up the great work