In The Politics of Autism, I analyze the myth that vaccines cause autism. This bogus idea can hurt people by allowing diseases to spread. Examples include measles, COVID, flu, and polio. A top antivaxxer is HHS Secretary RFK Jr. He is part of the "Disinformation Dozen." He helped cause a deadly 2019 measles outbreak in Samoa.
An Idaho mother was charged with the murders of her 18-month-old twins more than a year after suggesting their deaths were the result of vaccinations.
Andrea Shaw was indicted on two counts of first-degree murder on Monday, June 29, the Payette Police Department said in a press release.
Previously, Payette police said the 18-month-old twins were found dead in a shared bed on May 1, 2025. Authorities did not reveal a cause of death.
Days after the two children, a boy and a girl, were found dead, Shaw and her husband appeared on a podcast produced by Children's Health Defense, an anti-vaccine organization formerly led by current U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
On the podcast, Shaw suggested that the twins got sick and died shortly after they received three vaccinations.\
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Multiple large-scale studies have found that vaccines are safe. There is no scientific link between vaccines and autism, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Katie Francis at The Daily Beast:
Children’s Health Defense was formerly led by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and teamed with Shaw in a lawsuit against the American Academy of Pediatrics for “defrauding” families about the safety of vaccines.
In the lawsuit, it claims that the young boy and girl died “eight days after receiving their 18-month vaccines.”
It continues: “On April 23, 2025, both twins were administered hepatitis A, influenza, and DTaP vaccines at their pediatrician’s office in Payette, Idaho. Prior to vaccination, Mrs. Shaw and her mother-in-law warned the pediatrician about a family history of adverse reactions to the flu vaccine on the father’s side.
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Despite Shaw’s strong anti-vaccine statements in connection with her childrens’ deaths, KDTV has stated that the indictment against her alleges suffocation.
