{"id":65825,"date":"2026-06-12T11:27:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T01:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=65825"},"modified":"2026-06-12T11:27:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T01:27:13","slug":"they-said-it-caused-brain-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=65825","title":{"rendered":"They Said It Caused Brain Damage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65826\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Brain_Damage.jpg\" alt=\"They Said It Caused Brain Damage\" width=\"544\" height=\"680\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Brain_Damage.jpg 544w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Brain_Damage-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 544px) 100vw, 544px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the 1970s\u201380s the whooping cough vaccine was front-page news for causing brain damage. Parents protested. Media investigated. Governments held inquiries.<\/p>\n<p>Now? Injuries are \u201crare\u201d, \u201ccoincidence\u201d, or memory-holed completely.<\/p>\n<p>Same playbook. Different decade.<\/p>\n<p>History didn\u2019t change \u2026 the narrative did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 1970s\u201380s the whooping cough vaccine was front-page news for causing brain damage. Parents protested. Media investigated. Governments held inquiries. Now? Injuries are \u201crare\u201d, \u201ccoincidence\u201d, or memory-holed completely. Same playbook. Different decade. History didn\u2019t change \u2026 the narrative did.<\/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-65825","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\/65825","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=65825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65827,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65825\/revisions\/65827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}