International Journal of Vaccine Theory, Practice, and Research

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Editors and authors

The editor-in-chief is John Oller, a former linguistics professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette who published a book falsely linking vaccines to autism in 2009. [6] [4] Its senior editor, Christopher Shaw, is a professor at the University of British Columbia's Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences department who has promoted scare stories about vaccines. [6] Its associate editors are Russell Blaylock, a former neurosurgeon who has baselessly claimed that wearing face masks helps SARS-CoV-2 enter the brain, [7] and anti-vaccine activists Stephanie Seneff and Brian Hooker. [2] [4] Hooker and associate editor Mary Holland are also members of the anti-vaccine group Children's Health Defense. [2]

Matti Sällberg (Karolinska Institute) said of the journal: "The editorial board is a joke. None of the editors or associate editors are scientists of a good reputation. Some even are not in the scope of the title of the journal." [4]

Four of the journal's authors have also written for Propaganda in Focus, a website describing itself as "a forum for expert opinion and analysis about propaganda and its consequences". One such author is Daniel Broudy, a professor of rhetoric and applied linguistics at Okinawa Christian University who also co-edits Propaganda in Focus with Piers Robinson, a former professor who has promoted 9/11 conspiracy theories and disputed the use of chemical weapons in the Syrian civil war. [6]

Anti-vaccine publications

In May 2021, Seneff published a paper with co-author Greg Nigh (a naturopath) [8] titled "Worse Than the Disease? Reviewing Some Possible Unintended Consequences of the mRNA Vaccines Against COVID-19" [9] in the then-brand new journal. [10]

In October 2023, the journal published a paper baselessly implying that Pfizer had knowingly avoided reporting deaths that happened during clinical trials of its COVID-19 vaccine. The paper was cited as a source by The Epoch Times , a far-right newspaper known for promoting anti-vaccine misinformation. [2]

In September 2024, James Lawler (University of Nebraska Medical Center) said the journal is "not a real journal". He described a paper published in the journal claiming that COVID-19 vaccines contain nanobots as "a case study on how to spot disinformation", and said its content was "scientific gibberish with no basis in actual biology or the scientific method" and "relatively amateurish gibberish... that a reasonable person with a high-school level biology education should be able to easily debunk." [11]

References

  1. ↑ Mansour, Juliette; Hollingsworth, Anna (October 3, 2022). "Cette étude italienne assurant montrer "d'étranges particules" dans le sang après la vaccination anti-Covid à ARN ne respecte pas le protocole scientifique" [This Italian study assuring to show "strange particles" in the blood after the vaccination against Covid RNA does not respect the scientific protocol]. defacto-observatoire.fr (in French). Agence France-Presse . Retrieved 2024-09-11.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Rougerie, Pablo (31 October 2023). "Preventing deaths isn't the sole benefit of COVID-19 vaccination, contrary to Epoch Times article". Health Feedback. Retrieved 29 January 2024.
  3. ↑ Jarry, Jonathan (8 June 2024). "Spikeopathy Speculative Fiction Contaminates the Blood Supply". Office for Science and Society . McGill University. Archived from the original on 2024-09-11. Retrieved 2024-09-11.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Christiansen, Siri (September 10, 2024). "No, there aren't self-assembled nanostructures in COVID-19 vaccines". Logically Facts . Archived from the original on September 11, 2024. Retrieved September 11, 2024.
  5. ↑ Driver, George (October 23, 2024). "No, Japan has not declared a state of emergency after 'nanobot discovery' in COVID vaccines". Australian Associated Press . Retrieved 2024-12-13.
  6. 1 2 3 Whitaker, Brian (2022-11-07). "Friends in Strange Places". New Lines Magazine . Archived from the original on 2024-09-11. Retrieved 2024-09-11.
  7. ↑ Teoh, Flora (2020-05-19). "No evidence that using a face mask helps coronavirus enter the brain, contrary to claim by Russell Blaylock". Science Feedback . Archived from the original on 2024-04-24. Retrieved 2024-09-11.
  8. ↑ Gorski, David (25 April 2022). "Scientific review articles as antivaccine disinformation". Science-Based Medicine . Archived from the original on 28 October 2022. Retrieved 26 August 2022.
  9. ↑ Seneff, Stephanie; Nigh, Greg (2021). "Worse Than the Disease? Reviewing Some Possible Unintended Consequences of the mRNA Vaccines Against COVID-19". International Journal of Vaccine Theory, Practice, and Research. 2: 38–79. doi: 10.56098/ijvtpr.v2i1.23 . S2CID   249052583. Archived from the original on 2024-09-11. Retrieved 2022-06-13.
  10. ↑ Marcus, Adam (11 August 2021). "Authors blame a "ghoul" for retraction of paper claiming vaccines lead to health and behavioral issues". Retraction Watch . Archived from the original on 11 September 2024. Retrieved 26 August 2022.
  11. ↑ Payne, Ed (2024-09-09). "Fact Check: 2024 Paper On mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines Is NOT Valid Scientific Study; Expert Calls It 'Amateurish Gibberish'". Lead Stories . Archived from the original on 2024-09-11. Retrieved 2024-09-11.
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