1. A brief rant on those who claim they aren't anti-vaxxers but totally are. I first started mucking about on Twitter and creating content in 2012. My focus has always been scepticism and challenging irrational beliefs. Especially when those beliefs can be linked to harm.
2. Anti-vaxxers were always a focus, because pre-pandemic, anti-vax cranks were almost exclusively Christian conservatives. And flakey West Coast 'spiritual' types, oddly. Back then, the big baseless bogeyman was autism. And how vaccines were responsible (they weren't).
3. I released a podcast on this issue in 2015. And it's staggering how little daylight there is between this type of anti-vaxxer and the Covid era 'I'm definitely not an anti-vaxxer but..' types. gspellchecker.com/2015/11/ep71-s…
4. It's always one, or a combination of the following:
📌 Conspiracy
📌 The inability to understand basic causation when attributing illness to vaccines
📌 Disregard of data in favour of anecdote
📌 Touting of ineffective alternative remedies.
📌 Conspiracy
📌 The inability to understand basic causation when attributing illness to vaccines
📌 Disregard of data in favour of anecdote
📌 Touting of ineffective alternative remedies.
5. It was all fun and games when it was simply religious cranks and privileged American crystal-mongers. Now it's self-described free-thinkers and people that genuinely believe they are fighting fascism and the New World Order.
6. So, feel free to say you aren't an 'anti-vaxxer'. But then at least stop regurgitating all the greatest anti-vax hits familiar to many of us already.
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