# Claims About Placebos in Childhood Vaccine Safety Testing

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2107078348551954929
- Source account: [@ValerieAnne1970](https://x.com/ValerieAnne1970)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 2:04
- Published: 2026-10-06
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/1wpQWr00tDLc/en/claims-about-placebos-in-childhood-vaccine-safety-testing

## Transcript

[0:01](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/1wpQWr00tDLc/en/claims-about-placebos-in-childhood-vaccine-safety-testing?t=1) big problem with trusting the science is not the science part, it's who's behind the science part, primarily in the area of vaccines for children. Because I hear this over and over and over in social media and the news, "They've been tested for safety.

[0:17](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/1wpQWr00tDLc/en/claims-about-placebos-in-childhood-vaccine-safety-testing?t=17) It's been proven that these vaccines are safe and effective." Normally, when you study a drug, you compare it with a placebo, so that way you can truly test the side effects on something. But that is not how they test children's vaccines. What they'll do is they'll test an active vaccine

[0:36](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/1wpQWr00tDLc/en/claims-about-placebos-in-childhood-vaccine-safety-testing?t=36) with another active vaccine. So this so-called placebo control is not really a true placebo control because it's not inert. It's an active vaccine with something called an adjuvant.

[0:51](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/1wpQWr00tDLc/en/claims-about-placebos-in-childhood-vaccine-safety-testing?t=51) This is something they add to vaccines to create more of an immune reaction, and the big one that they've been using for a long time is, uh, aluminum.

[0:58](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/1wpQWr00tDLc/en/claims-about-placebos-in-childhood-vaccine-safety-testing?t=58) Think about this for a second. If I were to test the safety studies on whiskey, of course, I'd wanna test that against water, right? But what if I tested whiskey against bourbon, and I looked at the side effect of each, okay?

[1:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/1wpQWr00tDLc/en/claims-about-placebos-in-childhood-vaccine-safety-testing?t=72) So whiskey will create, uh, fatty liver, creates inflammation of the liver, cirrhosis, all sorts of other problems like dementia, et cetera, et cetera.

[1:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/1wpQWr00tDLc/en/claims-about-placebos-in-childhood-vaccine-safety-testing?t=80) So if I were to tell you, "Well, the bourbon had roughly about the same side effects as the whiskey, so it's not any worse," that would be considered safe.

[1:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/1wpQWr00tDLc/en/claims-about-placebos-in-childhood-vaccine-safety-testing?t=90) Yeah, that's how they test these vaccines in children.

[1:34](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/1wpQWr00tDLc/en/claims-about-placebos-in-childhood-vaccine-safety-testing?t=94) The argument that they make against this to justify it is they don't wanna give a true placebo with children because they consider that harmful, right? Because they're not giving something that can save their life. My question is: How can you really, truly test the safety and effectiveness

[1:49](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/1wpQWr00tDLc/en/claims-about-placebos-in-childhood-vaccine-safety-testing?t=109) of something if you're looking at the relative safety of an active vaccine to another active vaccine with adjuvants?

[1:57](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/1wpQWr00tDLc/en/claims-about-placebos-in-childhood-vaccine-safety-testing?t=117) That just muddies the water to this whole safe and effective claim that you keep hearing over and over and over