Following a recent essay unpacking the “anti-vaccine research playbook”, public health expert and science communicator Dr Jess Steier has published an article showing how the same “playbook” is applied to research on aluminium and vaccines.

Dr Steier and co-authors Izzy Figueroa and Paige Boklaschuk examine what aluminium does in vaccines and why, before assessing the research of Dr Christopher Shaw who studies the effects of aluminium.

Read the article in full at Unbiased Science: Dying on Bradford’s Hill: The Anti-Vaccine Movement’s Favorite Epidemiology Trick

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