To understand how the antivaccine movement in the 2010s became a well funded political enterprise linked to fake “health freedom” far right extremism starting here in Texas before spreading across North America and Europe: my article in @jclinicalinvest jci.org/articles/view/…
https://twitter.com/finneganporter/status/1471084992189112327
No question the antivaccine movement is now aligned with aggression against climate scientists to become an antiscience political movement. In my @nature essay I argue that this now requires a political solution nature.com/articles/d4158…
A decade ago we had the opportunity to stop this from happening but there was a failure by the leadership of health agencies (including our own CDC) to understand the depth and breadth of this movement.
For instance when I wrote this article almost 5 years ago @nytimes I was rebuked by CDC saying that we’re not supposed to talk about this in public because it might “give it oxygen” completely oblivious to the fact that it was already a political monster nytimes.com/2017/02/08/opi…
Ultimately it was the hubris of these health agencies who thought they knew everything and refused to alter their thinking to recognize how the antivaccine movement had pivoted and who refused to listen to people like myself
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