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Episode #217: How Do You Know Vaccines Are Safe and Effective?
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How do you know vaccines are “safe and effective”—because you’ve seen the data, or because trusted voices repeat the line?
In this episode we invite you to test the claim yourself. We walk through how the U.S. schedule expanded (from a handful of shots in the 1990s to ~70 doses today), what kinds of studies typically underpin safety and effectiveness, and how to read those studies without a PhD—or a migraine.
We trace the widely quoted “154 million deaths prevented since 1974” back to a single modeling paper and look at its methods and funding disclosures; review what…
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