Episode 40 - A Shot In the Dark Episode 14 - The MMR Vaccine

Oct 30, 2025
3h 31m

Episode Description

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This Episode focuses on debunking Candace Owens on the MMR vaccine and her quite wild, entirely bogus claims about it.

 

Link Stack

 

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/15/candace-owens-australia-visa-00608983

Candace Owens Got Barred From Australia!

 

https://www.chop.edu/vaccine-education-center/vaccine-safety/vaccines-and-other-conditions/autism

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) on Vaccines and Autism

 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/anti-vaccine-moms-speak-out-amid-fierce-backlash/

CBS News article that Candace references in episode

 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/measles-cluster-at-daycare-center-the-latest-cause-for-concern/

Article about measles at a Daycare center, linked from CBS in link #2

 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/latest-measles-outbreak-is-a-wake-up-call/

Linked from #3 above, discusses how The latest outbreak of measles at Disneyland was a wake-up call for vaccination but was not the worst case to that point.

 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ohio-measles-outbreak-spreads-to-record-level/

This was the worst outbreak of measles in two decades and it happened in 2014 in Amish Country in Ohio

 

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt2594742

60 Minutes episode from November 12, 2000 featuring the mentioned story about Nicholas Wildman and the MMR vaccine

 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/doctor-blames-discredited-autism-vaccine-link-research-for-measles-outbreak

CBS News Follow Up from 2015

 

https://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.c5347.full

British Medical Journal article by Brian Deer, reporting long form on the case against Andrew Wakefield

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmcZ_ZQQrcc

Part 1 of Behind the Bastards on YouTube about the Grifters Behind the Fake Autism Cure Industry

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtA_Zwca354&utm_source=perplexity

Part 2 of the BtB episode

 

https://data.cdc.gov/Public-Health-Surveillance/autism-prevalence-studies/9mw4-6adp/about_data

CDC Source for Autism Tables presented

 

https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/students-needs-drive-expanding-costs-of-149229.php

Stamford Advocate on Students Needs in outplacement programs

 

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6406a5.htm

CDC Page About the California Measles Outbreak report, from 2015 at Disneyland

 

https://www.cdc.gov/chickenpox/vaccination-impact/index.html

Link to CDC article on the Chickenpox vaccine success

 

https://www.cdc.gov/shingles/about/index.html

CDC Article on Shingles

 

https://cdn.jamanetwork.com/ama/content_public/journal/jama/5245/joc70121t1.png?Expires=1763665635&Signature=veDvxnjN6gU4mTuuuvijwXSdRsTUuWkMsla-BaFafvzbDNF4h9eRs4lu0sqWhqsVdmdL81wOB2pa0jaHOzs8S-~QtePruLX8qStJCagtUcT1xY0MM9XnOFvaa95e-HzLdV5zih9HoB5xb3Uht9Na-njjgK6~EExOTUEcfVnwGdNC11IOP6HtWhEtGHEiAJQuqZWx6R9L4qTZrsSg3~MBJc~PITHLEsP1j3B2QG8MJms8m7n6abz285ZYUMTCbpcyAGrcJBzIY5X-NVn8h5fPbwWqJrUu~egXqg6as43r3l32aIVb29A4GD6-PcieXCXXUHflTzWmmjhcaHfwNY~nZw__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAIE5G5CRDK6RD3PGA

Huge Link to the Journal of American Medicine chart Candace Owens uses to lie.

 

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/209448

Full article attached to image link above

 

https://www.cdc.gov/pinkbook/hcp/table-of-contents/chapter-13-measles.html

CDC Pink Book Chapter on Measles

 

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/15007-mumps

Cleveland Clinic on the Mumps

 

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/rubella/symptoms-causes/syc-20377310

Mayo Clinic on Rubella

 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK448191

NIH on Varicella/Chickenpox

 

https://www.fda.gov/files/vaccines%2C%20blood%20%26%20biologics/published/Package-Insert-Measles-Mumps-and-Rubella-Virus-Vaccine-Live_2.pdf

MMR Vaccine Insert

 

https://www.healthychildren.org/English/health-issues/conditions/fever/Pages/Febrile-Seizures.aspx

Simple resource on Febrile Seizures

 

https://historyofvaccines.org/blog/the-horror-of-german-measl

es-in-the-1960s-and-today

History of Vaccines on the deadliness of Rubella

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