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No, COVID-19 Vaccines Do Not Cause Infertility
A fake news analysis to help anyone combat social media falsehoods and gaslighting
Fake news resides between the lines of what is stated versus what is not, often subverting facts just enough to make fantasy plausible. Scientific study, essentially the collection of observations and evidence to determine fundamental truths about the physical and natural world, probably makes for an easy victim because its basis for studying “what if” questions is so broadly fictionalized in popular culture.
Vaccines are legendary fake news targets because the science of medicine is rarely absolute, allowing even the faintest hint of exception to fester into something that can undermine an entire result. Every human being is different and unique in some way, leading medical studies to depend on statistical data and probabilities to describe how a vaccine will most likely function under various conditions. By their nature, study results leave open the possibility that an extraordinary someone will respond in a very different way than anyone else.
Misinformation about vaccines tends to align with one of three distinct fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) characteristics. When researchers are able to collect vaccine data under a specific condition, fake news purveyors will focus on…
