Indeed, one can argue that the @GOP has become the preferred party of antivaxers. 2/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2018/10/25/the-republican-party-has-become-the-antivaccine-party/ …
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I've experienced the antivax tendencies of the
@GOP in@MIGOP, specifically my local elections last year. 3/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2018/08/03/jeff-noble-kerry-bentivolio-host-antivax/ …Show this thread -
Basically, antivaxers have successfully sold their antivax message as "parental rights," "health freedom," and being against government regulation, and conservatives have been drawn to that framing. 4/
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They come for the message of "freedom" and then get drawn into the conspiracy theories and pseudoscience. 5/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2017/02/22/in-the-age-of-donald-trump-vaccine-policy-is-becoming-politicized-with-potentially-deadly-consequences/ …
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School vaccine mandates used to be about as bipartisan as anything in American politics could be. No more. It's a huge blow to public health. 6/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2017/07/07/vaccine-policy-is-becoming-politicized/ …
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Whenever someone says that the left is antivax, I point out two things. First, antivax beliefs are equally prevalent among the left and the right. HOWEVER... 7/
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Only one party,
@GOP, nominates candidates who are openly antivax and routinely promotes antivax policies designed to lower vaccine uptake rates. 8/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2018/11/06/vote-as-if-your-childrens-health-depends-on-it/ …Show this thread -
This includes
@realDonaldTrump, who has a long, sordid history of spewing antivax misinformation going back at least 12 years. 9/9https://respectfulinsolence.com/2015/09/15/the-long-sordid-antivaccine-history-of-donald-trump/ …Show this thread
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My college town experience isn’t consistent with this. Our leftish thought leaders are solidly allied with science only re: climate change.
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Yes, although I get
@gorskon's point about the political party thing, the anti-vaxxers where I've lived (Germany, Ireland, Canada, Italy and South Africa) have been overwhelmingly left-wing. Esp. in Germany.
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