The nonsense that is ‘Vaccine Injury Awareness Month’
However, apparently October has other significance to cranks. True, the month is more than half over, which makes it odd that I hadn’t really noticed this before. Or maybe it’s not so odd. Apparently anti-vaccine loons are trying to co-opt Breast Cancer Awareness Month by making it their own. That’s right. Somehow, somewhere, anti-vaccine loons got the idea in their head that October should be “Vaccine Injury Awareness Month.” And the anti-vaccine movement is piling on, including the anti-Gardasil site The Truth About Gardasil and, perhaps most prominent of all, Dr. Mayer Eisenstein, founder of the crunchy, “holistic” Homefirst practice in the Chicago area who has bought into Mark and David Geier’s Lupron protocol. Many of them are linking or embedding this video: