{"id":1236,"date":"2026-07-27T18:39:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T18:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/?p=1236"},"modified":"2026-07-27T18:39:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T18:39:54","slug":"shes-charged-with-killing-her-twins-the-anti-vaccine-movement-made-her-a-martyr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/?p=1236","title":{"rendered":"She\u2019s Charged With Killing Her Twins. The Anti-Vaccine Movement Made Her a Martyr."},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<div><ul><li><span>Share on Facebook<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Share on Twitter<\/span><\/li><li><i><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\n<svg>\n<\/svg><\/i><span>Share on Bluesky<\/span><\/li><li><span>Email<\/span><\/li><li><span>Comments<\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span>In April 2025<\/span>,<span> Andrea <\/span>and Nathaniel Shaw were the young parents of 18-month-old twin toddlers, a boy named Tyson and a girl named Dallas, and living in a mobile home in the small town of Payette, Idaho. The children had received routine vaccinations throughout their short lives, with the most recent ones near the end of the month. By May, the twins were dead. Soon after, law enforcement investigated Andrea because the deaths of her children seemed suspicious.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/?p=1234\">It Looks Like Sen. Bill Cassidy Is Hurting Public Health Again<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shaw and her family had a ready explanation: the twins died due to recent vaccinations. But the indictment a year later, charging her with murder, alleges that she suffocated the children in a premeditated act. This alleged crime could make her eligible for the death penalty. Meanwhile, the largest anti-vaccine group in the nation rose to her defense, turning her into a martyr and a kind of celebrity in the movement.<\/p>\n<p>Shaw was  June 29 and taken into custody in Payette shortly thereafter, just five days after she gave birth again via C-section to a baby girl. Initially, she was held on a $2 million bond and  to have no contact with children under the age of 18. On Tuesday, July 14, a judge in Idaho\u2019s third judicial district revoked her bond entirely, arguing that if she were to be released while awaiting trial, she could pose a threat to her newborn.<\/p>\n<p>The case has already generated nationwide press coverage and offers an unusually detailed look at how the anti-vaccine movement recruits parents and then uses those parents to market its claims to the public. Less than a week after their twin toddlers were discovered lifeless in bed, Andrea and Nathaniel sat for an interview with Children\u2019s Health Defense (CHD), the anti-vaccine organization previously chaired by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. They appear to have been connected with CHD via another anti-vaccine activist, registered nurse Angela Marie Wulbrecht, who, according to court documents and public comments she\u2019s given, got involved in the case just days after the twins died.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the past year, I have had the privilege of walking alongside Andrea and her family after the unimaginable loss of her twin babies,\u201d Wulbrecht told Children\u2019s Health Defense in an article about Shaw\u2019s charges published on July 1. \u201cI have witnessed a mother\u2019s profound grief, unwavering love for her children, and determination to seek answers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(Wulbrecht did not respond to requests for comment.)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Children\u2019s Health Defense has seized on Shaw\u2019s case as an opportunity to promote anti-vaccine beliefs, specifically the false notion that children\u2019s routine vaccines cause babies to die of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, not to mention broader suspicions about the medical establishment. Mary Holland, CHD\u2019s CEO and general counsel, tweeted recently that Shaw, \u201cisn\u2019t the first parent whose vaccine concerns were dismissed\u2014and treated as a suspect instead. CHD is standing with her family as this case moves forward.\u201d\u00a0Holland and the articles that CHD has published about the case have implied that Shaw is being attacked by a corrupt system for suggesting that vaccines harmed her children. And they\u2019ve made it clear that they will treat her case as a major test of whether the legal system and medical establishment take their claims seriously.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Other like-minded activists have done the same, including tech multimillionaire Steve Kirsch, who now runs the Vaccine Safety Research Foundation, an anti-vaccine group that Wulbrecht is affiliated with.\u00a0\u201cThis may be the best reason for not vaccinating your kids,\u201d Kirsch commented on X, sharing a story from CHD\u2019s website on Shaw\u2019s case, \u201cto avoid being charged with first-degree murder.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CHD has energetically defended Shaw both before and after she was charged. Holland sat for a July 8 interview about Shaw with MAHA Action, a 501(c)4 advocacy group staffed by some RFK Jr.\u2019s closest political allies. There, Holland was interviewed by Tony Lyons, the founder of Kennedy\u2019s publisher, Skyhorse Publishing. And she pressed Shaw\u2019s case in a <em>New York Times <\/em>article, where she declared, \u201cWe\u2019re probably the only organization that would take a case like that very seriously and put out information about it right away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwins,\u201d Holland added in another tweet, \u201cdon\u2019t just die.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span>In May 2025,<\/span> just days after the twins died, the Shaws, both blond and in their early 20s, appeared on CHD-TV, the organization\u2019s streaming platform, which shows both anti-vaccine content (\u201cThe Unvaccinated Immune System\u201d was a recent broadcast) as well as more general conspiracy theorizing (\u201cEpstein and the New World Order.\u201d) British anti-vaccine activist Polly Tommey gently led them through a round of questioning, tracing their experience from Shaw\u2019s pregnancy, which Andrea said was \u201ca struggle,\u201d though the events before the childrens\u2019 deaths.<\/p>\n<p>Andrea said she\u2019d gone into pre-term labor at just 29 weeks. Dallas and Tyson<strong>,<\/strong> born via emergency C-section<strong>,<\/strong> had underdeveloped lungs, and Dallas also had a heart murmur. They were taken to the NICU, where Andrea posted photos of them on Snapchat, tiny under a mound of medical equipment, one wearing a diaper that read \u201cpreemie strong.\u201d The twins spent 77 days in intensive care, and while there, were given a Hepatitis B vaccine.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Although Andrea hadn\u2019t been recently vaccinated, she told Tommey that she and Nathaniel did not consider themselves to be anti-vaccine, although she acknowledged that the couple had \u201csaid no to a few vaccines\u201d for the babies after they were born. She explained they did so \u201cbecause I would do my research before I would give consent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In January 2025, when the twins were three months old, they were finally released and went home, and for the next year and a half, they apparently thrived, Andrea told Tommey, albeit a bit delayed following their premature birth. \u201cThey ate fine; they learned to roll around and crawl just fine,\u201d she said, adding that the babies visited a doctor for monthly checkups and received routine vaccinations at 12 months.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On April 23, 2025, at their 18-month appointment, the children received Hepatitis A, DTaP, and flu shots. Andrea said that both she and her mother-in-law, Wendy Marie Shaw, who was present at the appointment, expressed concern about the flu shot. Andrea told Tommey that Wendy had told a nurse that Nathaniel\u2019s side of the family \u201call have bad reactions or are allergic\u201d to it, and that the family usually opted for nasal vaccines.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to an affidavit Wendy later filed in court, \u201c[the nurse] became visibly irritated with us because we kept asking about the flu shot and objecting to that vaccine,\u201d Wendy  \u201cIn speaking with Andrea, [I] found that Andrea ultimately agreed to allow the flu shot as well as the other shots provided that day.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While adverse reactions to any vaccine are rare but possible, flu shots are proven to reduce illness and death in babies and children. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has recently stoked suspicion about them, saying in January that it would be a \u201cbetter thing\u201d if fewer kids got them. Flu shots are one of several childhood vaccines that the CDC under the Trump administration no longer routinely recommends.<\/p>\n<p>After the appointment, Andrea told Tommey, \u201cThey were just as normal. Perfect, happy, little babies.\u201d That night, the children seemed tired, but otherwise things were \u201cbusiness as usual.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The day after the vaccines, when Nathaniel had already been at work for a few hours, Andrea said Tyson walked into the living room \u201cand just laid down and wouldn\u2019t get up.\u201d Dallas \u201cran to me,\u201d Andrea recalled, and seemed especially clingy. When she changed Dallas\u2019 diaper, Andrea said, \u201cI noticed that the typical toddler potbelly was gone,\u201d implying that the baby had lost a significant amount of weight overnight; she said the same was true of Tyson when she went to change his diaper. Both babies had blue-tinged lips, she said, and green diarrhea.<\/p>\n<p>Andrea told Tommey she called Wendy for advice, tried to get hold of Nathaniel at work, and then video-called her own mother. \u201cI was going crazy a bit,\u201d Andrea said. \u201cThey didn\u2019t look right.\u201d Both her mother and mother-in-law, she said, agreed that the babies \u201clooked like they were dying.\u201d Wendy rushed over to drive the twins and Andrea to the hospital, she wrote in her recent affidavit, and agreed that the twins looked very ill<strong>,<\/strong> \u201cTheir lips were blue and appeared sealed shut, their eyes were sunken, and their toddler bellies were gone.\u201d When Nathaniel finally returned home \u2014 it was unclear from the interview when in this sequence of events he arrived \u2014 he also expressed alarm at the children\u2019s appearance and at how rapidly they both had apparently changed.<\/p>\n<p>At the emergency room, a doctor examined the twins and, Andrea and Wendy both say,\u00a0told them they could be having what Andrea called a \u201cbad reaction\u201d to their vaccinations. The children were given Tylenol and popsicles, and when they were able to keep those down, were sent home.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the next week, Andrea said, the babies wouldn\u2019t eat, had diarrhea, and Tyson threw up \u201ca couple of times.\u201d Wendy also said in her affidavit that the twins seemed to be unwell when she saw them a few times over that week. \u201cTheir coloring was off,\u201d she wrote, and both had low energy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Andrea told Tommey she called their pediatrician for another appointment, but was told there was no time for walk-in patients, and instead, she should feed them a gentle BRAT\u2014bananas, rice, applesauce, toast\u2014diet. She recalled in her interview with Tommey that the children seemed to be improving later that week, drinking from their sippy cups and appearing to be more energetic, with only what she called \u201csevere diarrhea\u201d remaining.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But in her affidavit, Wendy claimed that the twins still seemed off on April 30, 2025, a week after they had been vaccinated, when the family went to a cousin\u2019s recital together and then to McDonald\u2019s afterwards. \u201cThe twins each ate a few French fries and would not touch anything else,\u201d she wrote. \u201cThat was very unusual behavior for them.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Andrea recounted putting them to bed that night, and then on Thursday, May 1, hours after Nathaniel left for work, she said she awoke to silence, which was unusual. She peeked in the babies\u2019 bedroom to see them lying still on their stomachs, and, assuming they were still asleep, went to clean up the house. When she eventually went to wake them, the twins were dead. She affirmed, in response to questions from Tommey, that they were cold and \u201clooked like they had gone in their sleep.\u201d Her face was calm as she spoke. She said she first flipped over Tyson, then Dallas, and called 911. The police arrived, along with medical personnel.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was just straight to interrogation,\u201d Nathaniel told Tommey. The police, he added, \u201cwere just very adamant that we had done it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Andrea said that the police told her that \u201cit wasn\u2019t medical. And that they figured asphyxiation, and that I had supposedly had a postpartum overwhelming blackout, and done it to my children.\u201d\u00a0Andrea continued that the interaction with law enforcement made her feel \u201ccrazy.<strong>\u201d <\/strong>Especially since \u201cI was telling them my truth, and they were getting into my head that I had done it. And I know I hadn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tommey praised the couple for sitting down for an interview within days of their children\u2019s deaths, and then pressed what seemed to be her most important point. \u201cYou\u2019re so pro-vaccine,\u201d Tommey claimed, despite Andrea saying that the family had declined some. \u201cHow does that make you both feel that this has happened, that you were lied to?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Andrea replied without hesitating: \u201cI feel that I wish I was anti-vaccine now.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>When reached for comment, Wendy, declined to discuss the charges against her daughter-in-law, but she referred me to Andrea\u2019s lawyer, Joseph Filicetti.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbsolutely, she\u2019s not guilty,\u201d Filicetti told me in a phone call recently. \u201cAnd she\u2019s going to be pleading as such.\u201d\u00a0 He was outraged that she\u2019d been arrested so soon after the birth of her new child. As she sat in jail, he said, she was unable to heal properly from her C-Section or breastfeed the baby, who is now in Nathaniel Shaw\u2019s custody.<\/p>\n<p>Filicetti declined to detail what he will argue in Shaw\u2019s defense or which vaccine they will claim was responsible for the twins\u2019 death. (Although, given what has been outlined in the Children\u2019s Health Defense interview and affidavits, the defense will likely claim that the culprit was the flu vaccine.)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey didn\u2019t disclose to us what their theory was. We\u2019ll wait until trial to disclose ours,\u201d he said, referring to prosecutors. \u201cI\u2019m not trying this case in the media. I\u2019m going to try this case in the courtroom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Filicetti also made it clear that questioning vaccine safety could constitute part of her defense. \u201cI don\u2019t think vaccines are <em>all<\/em> safe and effective,\u201d he asserted. He pointed to the Covid vaccine as a potential outlier, given the brief period of testing and study, and concluded, \u201cIf you look at any of the real-world data, they were neither safe nor effective.\u201d (The reality is that mRNA Covid vaccines were able to be quickly developed to meet the medical emergency because there had been decades of research on mRNA technology. Large global studies of Covid vaccines continue to confirm that they prevent severe illness and death, and don\u2019t increase the risk of other serious health problems, like cancer or heart disease.)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy clients were pro-vaccine prior,\u201d Filicetti added, referring to the Shaws, but noted that because of the allegedly \u201cadverse reaction\u201d the twins had suffered, their views had changed.  \u201cIt would change anyone\u2019s view,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019ll move heaven and earth to make sure she\u2019s found not guilty, I promise you.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span>Days after the <\/span>twins died, a friend opened a now-deleted fundraiser for the Shaws on GiveSendGo, a Christian fundraising platform, asking for money to help obtain \u201can independent autopsy and legal counsel to get the answers they desperately want and deserve.\u201d\u00a0The target amount was $50,000.<\/p>\n<p>CHD soon got involved in that too. During the Shaws\u2019 interview, as the children\u2019s bodies lay in a funeral home, Tommey told the audience that the organization was \u201ctrying to get tissue samples to help\u201d\u00a0with the autopsy. <\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/?p=1231\">It Took a Decade, Two Sniffer Dogs, and a Lot of Mud to Protect This Orchid<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wendy also referred me to the anti-vaccine activist and nurse Angela Marie Wulbrecht, whom she said had been with the family \u201csince day one.\u201d In an affidavit on July 14 to ask for Andrea\u2019s $2 million bond to be reduced, Wulbrecht wrote that she had learned about the twins\u2019 deaths, presumably from news stories about the case circulating online. She then wrote to Andrea to \u201coffer to assist the family in obtaining an independent private autopsy.\u201d Wulbrecht had been in contact with Dr. Ryan Cole, an Idaho pathologist and vocal Covid vaccine skeptic who has served on the state\u2019s largest public health district board. Cole told Wulbrecht, she wrote, that the \u201ccondition of the tissue\u201d meant that such an autopsy was no longer possible.<\/p>\n<p>Wulbrecht has said that she was injured by a Covid vaccine in 2021, developing fatigue, brain fog, trouble with her balance and other symptoms. She then was featured in a Children\u2019s Health Defense article about people who haven\u2019t received compensation from any federal programs for vaccine injuries they say they experienced. Initially, Wulbrecht told Kaiser Health News, despite her own experience, she still supported the Covid vaccine campaign. Since then, however, her views seem to have shifted. According to her biowith the Vaccine Safety Research Foundation, Wulbrecht is \u201cdeeply committed to researching and addressing the adverse effects of vaccines,\u201d and hosts webinars with Kirsch \u201cto educate the public on the dangers of these vaccines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s also posted a photo of herself in 2022 hobnobbing at a celebration of some kind with Kennedy. The photo was accompanied by text encouraging her followers to read<em> The Real Anthony Fauci,<\/em> a screed byRFK Jr. excoriating immunologist Dr. Anthony Fauci, who advised President Trump during the start of the Covid pandemic and soon became enemy number 1 in the eyes of the anti-vaccine movement. Wulbrecht\u2019s caption added, \u201cTomorrow they are voting for the Covid vaccines to be on the childhood schedule. Once it\u2019s on the schedule, they are free from liability, which is their goal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wulbrecht soon became deeply involved not just in the case but in the Shaw\u2019s lives. According to her affidavit, Shaw also relied heavily on her for medical advice throughout her next pregnancy after the twins died: \u201cShe regularly sent me copies of ultrasound reports, genetic testing, medical records, and physician notes so that I could help her better understand the information she had been given.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This seems to have happened in an especially fraught time for the family; a footnote in a lawsuit later filed by CHD says that the Shaw family \u201creceived death threats and was forced to relocate\u201d to Boise after the police \u201cimplied wrongdoing.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span>In court documents<\/span> filed on July 14, Michael Duke, the Payette County Prosecuting Attorney, wrote that the evidence all pointed to Andrea having suffocated the twins. (East Idaho journalist Nate Eaton was the first to report on the July 14 court documents.) Detectives investigated other options, prosecutors wrote, noting that the twins\u2019 room \u201cwould get extraordinarily hot,\u201d over 100 degrees, leading to initial concerns that they might have died from heat exposure. They discounted that theory, however, because Shaw said that the heat in the room was \u201croutine,\u201d meaning, prosecutors wrote, \u201cthe children survived this circumstance every night prior to the night of their death.\u201d Furthermore, they added, \u201cthe time of death did not correlate with the time of day the room reached over 100 degrees.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Police also investigated whether vaccines could have played a role in the twins\u2019 deaths, prosecutors wrote, but a forensic pathologist and three doctors with whom they consulted rejected that as unlikely.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As an aside, the prosecution alleged that one twin \u201chad diarrhea and tested positive for rotavirus, which is a common side effect of vaccinations.\u201d This is strange wording; vaccines can cause mild, short-term vomiting, fever, or diarrhea, but they do not cause rotavirus, which, as the name suggests, is a virus common in young children, caused by hand-to-mouth contact with an infected person\u2019s feces.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Detectives also noted that under questioning Andrea had \u201cchanged her story several times\u201d about when she last saw the twins alive. Ultimately, prosecutor Duke wrote, detectives concluded that Andrea had suffocated the children, who had \u201cpulmonary vascular congestion,\u201d in addition to Tyson having pulmonary edema.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to our expert, these symptoms are consistent with being smothered,\u201d he added. He asked for her bond not to be reduced, arguing that given that she is accused of murdering her children, the consequences of her being allowed contact with her newborn \u201ccannot be remedied if she were to reoffend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span>After the twins\u2019 deaths<\/span>, Andrea changed her online bios to read \u201cBereaved Mama and Homemaker,\u201d and shared many quotes on Facebook about grief, all of which have since been deleted or made private. For Wendy, the deaths appear to have stoked an intense distrust in vaccines and in the medical system generally. In the months after they passed, she posted a series of stories about vaccines being unsafe.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo true,\u201d she commented, sharing a link to an article claiming that vaccines cause sudden infant death syndrome. \u201cPlease take a look.\u201d There is no proven connection between vaccines and SIDS. A meta-analysis actually appears to show that vaccines decrease the overall risk of SIDS.<\/p>\n<p>This is a turn of events that Children\u2019s Health Defense welcomes and encourages. CHD has a history of swooping in after the loss of a child to quickly interview bereaved families and assure them that their worst suspicions about vaccines are accurate. When a Mennonite child died of measles during a 2025 Texas outbreak, her parents were soon booked on CHD TV. The organization baselessly claimed that the girl had died because of a hospital error, not measles. The organization attributed the death of a second unvaccinated child to hospital-acquired pneumonia. But according to state health officials, the girl died of \u201cmeasles pulmonary failure.\u201d Measles can cause serious respiratory and neurologic complications, including pneumonia; the vaccineis highly effective at preventing the disease.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s how CHD works,\u201d says Dr. Paul Offit, the Director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children\u2019s Hospital of Philadelphia, and a frequent target of CHD\u2019s ire. \u201cIt\u2019s the same story with them over and over again. They have a fixed, immutable, science-resistant belief that vaccines are doing harm.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Even before Children\u2019s Health Defense existed, the anti-vaccine movement had vehemently defended parents accused of killing their children, sometimes aided in their efforts by shaky science or faults with a murder case. One of the more infamous was Alan Yurko, a Florida father convicted in 1999 of shaking his 10-week-old infant son to death. He was sentenced to life in prison. Yurko argued that vaccines had caused the baby\u2019s death, and anti-vaccine organizations amplified his arguments. His is one of several cases where the anti-vaccine movement has argued that allegations of fatal abuse are used to cover up vaccine injury.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not just about one family\u2019s injustice,\u201d Yurko wrote in a 2002 letter to the <em>Idaho Observer f<\/em>rom prison, which was then republished by <em>Vaccine Truth,<\/em> a site run by Wendy Callahan, a Florida anti-vaccine activist. Yurko added, \u201cIt is about hundreds of families who have and will experience such tragedy.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It ultimately became clear that Yurko\u2019s conviction was based on a profoundly botched autopsy. The medical examiner who conducted it was ultimately banned from performing autopsies and would have been fired were he not about to retire. Yurko was ultimately freed from prison and pleaded no contest to his son\u2019s death to avoid a retrial. His case continues to be cited in the anti-vaccine and health freedom movement as an example of the ways that the medical system doesn\u2019t take their concerns seriously, even though the baby\u2019s death was never attributed to vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>In the months\u00a0after her May 2025 interview with Children\u2019s Health Defense, Shaw\u2019s involvement in the anti-vaccine world deepened. In January, she was named the lead plaintiff for a CHD-backed lawsuit against the American Academy of Pediatrics. The lawsuit accuses the AAP of \u201cracketeering\u201d for its role in recommending the current childhood vaccine schedule and for saying that it is safe for healthy children to receive multiple vaccines simultaneously. This is a process called \u201ccoadministration,\u201d which has repeatedly been\u00a0studied and proven safe, including in a landmark review in 2013 by the federally funded Institute of Medicine.<\/p>\n<p>In rare cases, research has found that coadministration of certain vaccines\u00a0can cause febrile seizures\u00a0in babies and young children. However, the Institute for Vaccine Safety at Johns Hopkins University says that febrile seizures are\u00a0\u201ca common and typically benign childhood condition\u201d\u00a0with typically no long-term effects.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear how CHD chose to name Andrea Shaw as its lead plaintiff, or what due diligence they may have done before to ascertain that her children\u2019s deaths were caused by vaccine administration. (The organization did not respond to multiple requests for comment from <em>Mother Jones<\/em>.) Shaw is joined as a plaintiff by two other parents who say their children died or were injured from vaccines, as well as three doctors who lost their medical licenses, which they allege was because they didn\u2019t follow AAP vaccine guidelines.<\/p>\n<p>The suit stretches the bounds of logic in several key ways, says Dorit Reiss. She\u2019s a professor at the University of California, San Francisco\u2019s law school who specializes in vaccine law and policy. <\/p>\n<p>Reiss has argued that the suit \u201cmakes claims that are as legally spurious as they are factually unsound.\u201d For one thing, she says, it fails to make a case that the AAP was engaged in \u201cracketeering\u201d\u2014an illegal business scheme that multiple parties engage in together for profit. The closest the lawsuit comes is to claim AAP and medical experts make \u201cfalse and misleading statements transmitted through pediatric offices to parents to maintain vaccine uptake despite the absence of required safety evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re building it all around a parallel to tobacco, but the parallel is a very weak one,\u201d Reiss explains. \u201cUnlike tobacco or a mob case, they haven\u2019t shown us a real conspiracy.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0She said the suit \u201cshould be thrown out,\u201d adding, \u201cI\u2019m surprised it\u2019s taken so long\u201d to do so.<\/p>\n<p>The suit contains other glaring errors. Dr. Paul Offit is not a defendant in the lawsuit but is named throughout as having made statements about the safety of vaccines. The suit falsely claims that he is \u201ca leading spokesperson\u201d for the AAP and serves on its Committee on Infectious Diseases, neither of which is true. \u201cI don\u2019t speak on behalf of the AAP,\u201d Offit says, \u201cand I\u2019m not a member of the AAP\u2019s Committee on Infectious Diseases.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reiss says it is also unlikely CHD\u2019s racketeering lawsuit will be dropped because its lead plaintiff is now charged with murder. Shaw hasn\u2019t been removed from the case, and if she were, there are still other plaintiffs involved. She also expressed caution about assuming anything about the Shaw murder case before it goes to trial.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople are sometimes accused falsely,\u201d she said. \u201cUntil we see the evidence at trial, we don\u2019t really know what they have that suggests that this mother suffocated her children.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Like Offit, though, she\u2019s also not surprised that anti-vaccine groups have resorted to conspiracy theories to explain Shaw\u2019s prosecution. \u201cThese people live in an alternate reality,\u201d she says. \u201cIn their reality, everyone is part of a grand conspiracy against them.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<footer>\n<section><h3>Owned by no one\u2014except you.<\/h3><p><strong>We just keep seeing it happen<\/strong>: Newsrooms owned by billionaires and corporations are spinning their own narratives, overwriting the truth, following only stories that keep them in the pocket of those with even more power.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Not here<\/strong>. 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