Holy smokes. This is my new GOP representative, and the clip is worse than the description. Claims that the CDC has "fraudulently managed" data. https://www.tennessean.com/videos/news/politics/2018/12/12/u-s-rep-e-elect-mark-green-falsely-claims-vaccines-cause-autism/2288837002/ … via @Tennessean
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Replying to @DavidAFrench @Tennessean
You shouldn't be surprised. Antivaxers have successfully co-opted the language of anti-regulation, small government, "freedom," and "parental rights."
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As a result of the successful co-optation by antivaxers of the language of "freedom," even though antivaccine views have roughly the same prevalence on the left and the right, the
@GOP has become the antivaccine party.https://respectfulinsolence.com/2018/10/25/the-republican-party-has-become-the-antivaccine-party/ …4 replies 2 retweets 27 likes -
Replying to @gorskon @DavidAFrench and
That bit by
@DrMarkGreen4TN about the@CDCgov having "fraudulently managed" data comes straight from an antivaccine conspiracy theory known as the#CDCwhistleblower. The idea is that the CDC "knew" vaccines cause autism but covered it up.https://respectfulinsolence.com/2018/12/12/brian-hookers-antivaccine-pseudoscience-has-risen-from-the-dead-to-threaten-children-again/ …4 replies 1 retweet 24 likes
Indeed, the #CDCwhistleblower conspiracy theory was the basis of an antivaccine propaganda "documentary" #vaxxedthemovie by discredited antivax doctor Andrew Wakefield and @delbigtree.https://respectfulinsolence.com/2016/07/18/in-which-andrew-wakefield-and-del-bigtrees-antivaccine-documentary-vaxxed-is-reviewed-with-insolence/ …
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