Alleged Murderer Blames Vaccines

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Buckle up, friends, because we have a lot to talk about today and it’s not going to be particularly cheerful: I’m going to be talking about the horrifically tragic death of two children, along with the usual stuff about anti-science theocratic nightmare people, so if that’s a bit much for you I understand.

So. Back in December, I talked about how an incredibly silly Supreme Court case I had been following was primed to have some really terrible knock-on effects. If you missed that video or the previous one on that case, let me sum it up: in Mahmoud v. Taylor, the Supreme Court ruled that religious fundamentalists had the right to prevent kids in public schools from seeing picture books with gay hamsters in them. Yes, really. That’s a thing that the Supreme Court of the United States determined, because we live in the stupidest fucking timeline.

That was bad enough, but making matters worse was the fact that following that ruling, SCOTUS notified a lower court in New York that in light of their ruling, the lower court should revisit Miller v. McDonald, in which an Amish guy argued that he had the right to send his kid to public school unvaccinated, because that was part of their religious beliefs.

As I’ve pointed out countless times in the past, this is the Religious Right playbook: institute theocracy under the guise of “freedom of religion,” using that excuse to accomplish all their far right goals and eventually force Christianity on everyone. It’s “freedom of religion” for doctors to refuse to perform abortions, or for pharmacists to refuse to fill birth control prescriptions, or for health insurance companies to cover the cost of women’s healthcare. It’s “freedom of religion” to teach the Ten Commandments and creationism in public schools. It’s “freedom of religion” to refuse service to LGBTQ people. And it’s “freedom of religion” to refuse to vaccinate your children. This completely false notion of “freedom of religion” is a hammer, and every far right position is a nail.

A few days after I posted my video about Miller v. McDonald, Children’s Health Defense announced that they were suing the State of New York on behalf of a bunch of parents who didn’t want to vaccinate their children. Who is Children’s Health Defense? Why, that’s the group of antivaccine lunatics that was founded by none other than Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and the desiccated worm inside his brain. CHD explicitly pointed to the Supreme Court ruling as the reason they were attacking now.

But there’s never a guarantee that any one case will make it to the Supreme Court. That’s why the Religious Right often fields multiple litigants around the country using a variety of legal tactics in the hopes that one will pay off. CHD proudly lists all of their ongoing lawsuits on their website and it is extensive.

You may look at that list and wonder: how on earth can any one organization support so many ongoing lawsuits at the same time? There are two answers to this: one is money. According to their taxes, they take in $15 million a year and not only have enough to pay the lawyers, but also enough to pay their c-suite rather handsomely.

The other answer is that they don’t bother having any standards for who they choose to represent. At all. How do I know this? Well, in January of this year, CHD filed a lawsuit against the American Academy of Pediatrics on behalf of two mothers who claimed that their children died from being vaccinated in accordance with the Academy’s recommendation, plus a third anonymous mother who claims her child was injured from a booster shot.

One of the named mothers is Andrea Shaw, who claims that last year, her pediatrician vaccinated her 18-month old fraternal twins for hepatitis A, influenza, diphtheria, pertussis, and tetanus, despite the fact that she warned the doctor that their father’s family had a history of adverse reactions to the flu shot. She claims that the following day, the twins had “blue lips, lethargy, and sunken eyes,” and that she took them to the emergency room where the doctor diagnosed them as having a post-immunization reaction and sent them home.

Shaw claims that the twins continued to show symptoms for the following week, and then on May 1st 2025 she found them both dead. She told paramedics and investigators that the cause was the vaccines they received a week prior.

Now, for anyone with two working brain cells, this story should raise some red flags. In most cases where a parent alleges that vaccines harmed or killed their child, it’s just a simple but tragic case of “post hoc, ergo propter hoc”: the very common and understandable fallacy in which people assume that if strange thing A happens, and then strange thing B happens, then A must have caused B. I wore my favorite hat to the game and the Giants won, therefore my hat must be lucky and helped them win.  I prayed for money and then I won the lottery, therefore the prayer must have worked. I barked at the mail lady and then she went away, therefore I must be a very scary and effective guard dog. And on and on.

In most of these cases, it’s just an uninformed and scared or grieving parent connecting dots that make them feel like they have control over the situation. Vaccines don’t cause autism, but believing they do can be soothing to the parents of severely autistic children because now they have someone to blame and they have a foolproof way to make sure their next child DOESN’T have autism. That’s more comforting than, “hey, shit happens and we don’t know why yet.”

But Shaw’s case, from the outset, was something very different. Her twins didn’t end up autistic. They didn’t both happen to contract some illness in the days following their vaccine. These were two perfectly healthy kids who not only got sick at the same time, but who died at exactly the same time with no known natural cause.

It’s also very strange that they died an entire week after their vaccinations. You see, people can and do have very serious adverse reactions to vaccines. It’s extremely rare, on the order of .01% to .1% depending upon the vaccine. Around four out of every 100,000 children who are vaccinated will experience a febrile seizure, which is a usually harmless convulsion caused not by the vaccine itself but by the high fever that sometimes happens after immunization. And of course, some people can experience an allergic reaction to some vaccines, which can lead to difficulty breathing and, if untreated, death.

Shaw never mentioned her children having a fever, but even if that had been the cause, the fever wouldn’t have occurred a week later. For the immunizations her kids got, a fever would have erupted within 24 hours, not a week later.

That just leaves anaphylaxis, which is an even more immediate reaction than fever. It’s the reason why when we first all got the COVID vaccine, we had to wait 10 to 15 minutes after getting it before we could leave: so that if we have an allergic reaction, medical staff could quickly treat us on the spot.

So there’s literally no way that vaccines caused the death of these children, and with no other obvious natural cause, what’s left? That’s right: homicide. On Monday, June 29 of this year, Andrea Shaw was officially charged with murdering her 18-month old twins after a year-long investigation.

When I first read about Shaw’s indictment, I genuinely thought that it must mean the end for CHD’s lawsuit against the American Academy of Pediatrics. Surely they would withdraw, drop Shaw as a plaintiff, and refile with the other two mothers, because keeping Shaw would surely be incredibly embarrassing and bring them a large amount of negative publicity, right?

Wrong. I don’t know why anything shocks me these days but I was genuinely alarmed when I actually read CHD’s initial court filing, which not only acknowledges the ongoing homicide investigation against Shaw, but uses it as an additional point in their complaint:

Rather than investigating the documented post-immunization reaction as a

potential cause of death, local authorities opened a homicide investigation targeting Mrs. Shaw.

“Prosecutors have theorized that she caused her children’s deaths through a “postpartum blackout” or that “the house was too hot.” This criminal investigation is a foreseeable consequence of AAP’s fraudulent safety claims: when the medical system has been told that vaccines cannot cause serious injury or death, grieving parents become suspects rather than victims.

“Plaintiff Shaw’s injuries are the foreseeable and proximate result of AAP’s racketeering scheme. AAP’s categorical safety claims, disseminated through pediatricians and public-facing materials, induced Mrs. Shaw to consent to vaccination despite her expressed concerns about family history. Those same categorical claims now form the basis for criminal suspicion against her, as investigators assume vaccines could not have caused her children’s deaths. Mrs. Shaw’s injuries are continuing because AAP continues to disseminate the same false safety claims that induced her consent and that now imperil her liberty.”

So now, not only did the vaccines magically kill two kids at the same moment a week after immunization, but they’ve also led to this poor innocent woman being maliciously prosecuted for their murder. Got it.

Obviously Shaw is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, but dear lord do I hope she’s either found guilty or the real cause of these kids’ deaths is put on the public record. Because if she is found not guilty and no one else, like the kids’ father, is found liable for their deaths, then I guarantee you Shaw is going to keep doing the antivaccine podcast circuit and we’re going to see a spike in the number of kids mysteriously dying from lack of oxygen in the days, weeks, and months following vaccinations. Keep that in mind, the next time you hear an antivaxxer claim they’re just trying to protect the children.

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