The single-author study, by longtime vaccine critic Neil Z. Miller and published in Toxicology Reports, found 75 percent of SIDS cases reported occurred within seven days of vaccination, suggesting the fatalities are tied to immunizations.

According to the removal notice, editor-in-chief Lawrence H. Lash determined the author’s response did not “satisfactorily address” the concerns, particularly, the “serious methodological flaws” in using the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) to infer a correlation between vaccination and SIDS.

The study joins several others relying on VAERS data that were subsequently retracted. In 2024, Cureus, now owned by Springer Nature, retracted a paper about the purported harms of vaccines against COVID-19 that used VAERS data. In 2025, Retraction Watch covered an investigation by Taylor & Francis into a paper claiming to find DNA contamination in COVID-19 vaccines that was based on VAERS data.

Source https://retractionwatch.com/2026/05/26/elsevier-retracts-study-tying-sudden-infant-death-syndrome-to-vaccinations/

Another high-profile case has interested scientists. Read now