{"id":58512,"date":"2025-02-19T17:52:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T06:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/maintenance.html\/?p=58512"},"modified":"2025-02-19T17:52:02","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T06:52:02","slug":"claims-that-childhood-vaccines-saved-millions-of-lives-based-on-flawed-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=58512","title":{"rendered":"Claims that childhood vaccines \u2018saved millions of lives\u2019 based on flawed models"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-58513\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Childhood_Vaccines_Saved_Lives_Flawed.jpg\" alt=\"Childhood Vaccines Saved Lives Flawed\" width=\"1024\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Childhood_Vaccines_Saved_Lives_Flawed.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Childhood_Vaccines_Saved_Lives_Flawed-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Childhood_Vaccines_Saved_Lives_Flawed-768x401.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In a paper published today, all-cause mortality expert Denis Rancourt, Ph.D., said claims by public health agencies and top medical journals that childhood vaccination prevents millions of deaths annually are based on \u201ctentative and untethered models of epidemiological forecasting\u201d that produce \u201cunlikely results.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/childhood-vaccines-saved-millions-of-lives-based-on-flawed-models\/\">https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/childhood-vaccines-saved-millions-of-lives-based-on-flawed-models\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a paper published today, all-cause mortality expert Denis Rancourt, Ph.D., said claims by public health agencies and top medical journals that childhood vaccination prevents millions of deaths annually are based on \u201ctentative and untethered models of epidemiological forecasting\u201d that produce \u201cunlikely results.\u201d https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/childhood-vaccines-saved-millions-of-lives-based-on-flawed-models\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips","category-vaccines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58514,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58512\/revisions\/58514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}