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The Critical Thinker's Dictionary: Biases, Fallacies, and Illusions and What You Can Do About Them by Robert Carroll

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The Critical Thinker's Dictionary: Biases, Fallacies, and Illusions and What You Can Do About Them by Robert Carroll

Author:Robert Carroll
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2013-11-08T00:00:00+00:00


One argument presented by some anti-vaxxers is that vaccines contain cells from aborted fetuses. A charitable interpretation of this claim is that it is a false implication based on the fact that:

The rubella vaccine virus that is included in the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) shot is cultured using human cell lines. Some of these cell lines were started from fetal tissue that was obtained in the 1960s from legal abortions.

However, anti-vaxxers, such as the popular Internet alternative medicine advocate Joseph Mercola, fail to mention that no new fetal tissue is required to generate rubella vaccine.

Others use whatever they can in their zeal to oppose abortion. Oklahoma state senator Ralph Shortey introduced a bill banning the use of human fetuses in food, falsely implying that human fetuses are being used in food products. The real intent of the bill was part of an anti-abortion campaign.

Libel by omission



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