International Journal of Vaccine Theory, Practice, and Research
scientific journal
The International Journal of Vaccine Theory, Practice, and Research is an anti-vaccine journal. It is known for promoting misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines.
Editors and authors
The editor-in-chief is John Oller, a former linguistics professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette who published a book falsely linking vaccines to autism in 2009. Its senior editor, Christopher Shaw, is a professor at the University of British Columbia's Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences department who has promoted scare stories about vaccines. Its associate editors are Russell Blaylock, a former neurosurgeon who has baselessly claimed that wearing face masks helps SARS-CoV-2 enter the brain, and anti-vaccine activists Stephanie Seneff and Brian Hooker. Hooker and associate editor Mary Holland are also members of the anti-vaccine group Children's Health Defense.
Matti Sällberg (Karolinska Institute) said of the journal: "The editorial board is a joke. None of the editors or associate editors are scientists of a good reputation. Some even are not in the scope of the title of the journal."
Four of the journal's authors have also written for Propaganda in Focus, a website describing itself as "a forum for expert opinion and analysis about propaganda and its consequences". One such author is Daniel Broudy, a professor of rhetoric and applied linguistics at Okinawa Christian University who also co-edits Propaganda in Focus with Piers Robinson, a former professor who has promoted 9/11 conspiracy theories and disputed the use of chemical weapons in the Syrian civil war.
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