Paul Fowler

Oh god, no SIDS has been studied. Perhaps read the actual published work. This is one of those claims that sounds persuasive until you remember that babies have ages. SIDS peaks at about 2–4 months. Routine infant vaccination also begins at about 2 months. So yes, some SIDS deaths will occur after vaccination simply because both events occur during the same period of infancy. That is precisely why researchers studied it. They did so in the 1980s.They did it again with large case-control studies. They did it again in meta-analysis. And they did not find an increased risk of SIDS after vaccination. Some studies actually found lower SIDS rates among vaccinated infants. Meanwhile, SIDS mortality fell dramatically after the Back to Sleep campaign while childhood vaccination continued.vSo the “statistic researchers have been replicating since the 80s” is not that vaccines cause SIDS. It is that the temporal coincidence keeps being mistaken for causation — and the studies keep failing to support it.v“Inconvenient truth” is a splendid phrase. But it is just a phrase used to sell a book from someone who doesn't read primary sources