It is true that antivax is the pseudoscience that knows no political boundaries. HOWEVER... 1/ https://t.co/dlY8NyhdAD
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I'm referring to groups like
@TXforVaxChoice and similar antivax political groups and PACs. 11/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2017/07/07/vaccine-policy-is-becoming-politicized/ …Show this thread -
So, yes, belief in antivax pseudoscience has roughly the same prevalence on the left and the right, but there's a big difference. Right now, in 2019, it isn't the crunchy hippy-dippy lefties who are so strongly promoting antivax beliefs in legislatures. It's right-wingers. 12/
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Only one party,
@GOP, is sympathetic enough to antivax arguments that its candidates now regularly pander to antivaxers and work to pass antivax-friendly legislation, at least at the state level.@TheDemocrats just don't do that. 13/Show this thread -
That's why last year I said to vote as if your children's health depended on it, because it did, given the number of
@GOP antivaxers who were running for office all over the nation. 14/Show this thread -
It's why I was very happy that
@pjcolbeck was term-limited and@SenPolehanki won the election to become my state senator. 15/Show this thread -
Similarly, I was overjoyed that
@MattforMichigan soundly defeated incumbent@Vote_Jeff_Noble and became my state representative. 16/Show this thread -
Meanwhile, I hope that
@GOP someday stops providing a political home for antivaxers. @SGottliebFDA, for example, is very pro-vax, but that's not enough. 17/Show this thread -
And, in fairness, antivaxers are still a minority in
@GOP, but their numbers and influence appear to be growing, thanks to the skill with which antivaxers have conflated freedom, deregulation, and parental rights with their pseudoscience. 18/Show this thread -
If pro-vax conservatives don't push back against the rising tide of antivax pseudoscience in their party, the
@GOP will truly become the antivax party. 19/19Show this thread -
And...as if on cue... 19a/19https://twitter.com/siubhan_h/status/1101925769230446593 …
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