• Source: International Journal of Vaccine Theory, Practice, and Research

The International Journal of Vaccine Theory, Practice, and Research (IJVTPR) is an anti-vaccine journal. It is known for promoting misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines.




Editorial board


As of 2022, the journal's editorial board had 18 members.
The journal's 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. Its senior editor, Christopher Shaw, is a professor in the University of British Columbia's Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences department who has promoted scare stories about vaccines. Its associate editors are Russell Blaylock, a former neurosurgeon who has baselessly claimed that wearing face masks helps SARS-CoV-2 enter the brain, and anti-vaccine activists Stephanie Seneff and Brian Hooker. Hooker and associate editor Mary Holland are also members of the anti-vaccine group Children's Health Defense.
Matti Sällström, a professor of biomedical analysis at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, 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."




Anti-vaccine publications


In May 2021, Seneff published a paper with co-author Greg Nigh (a naturopath) titled "Worse Than the Disease? Reviewing Some Possible Unintended Consequences of the mRNA Vaccines Against COVID-19" in the then-brand new IJVTPR.
In October 2023, the IJVTPR 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.
In September 2024, James Lawler, a doctor at the Division of Infectious Diseases at the 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."




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External links


Official website

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Globalisasi
• Virus
• Tuberkulosis
• Sistem imun
• AIDS
• International Journal of Vaccine Theory, Practice, and Research
• Stephanie Seneff
• Anti-vaccine activism
• Christopher Shaw (neuroscientist)
• Smallpox vaccine
• Brian Hooker (bioengineer)
• COVID-19 vaccine
• Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
• Discredited HIV/AIDS origins theories
• Andrew Wakefield