Why are you surprised? I’ve only been preaching since about 2015 that the loudest, most influential antivax rhetoric is coming not from the left but the right.https://respectfulinsolence.com/2019/04/19/gop-has-become-antivaxer/ …
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Replying to @gorskon @TheSciBabe
I hear a LOT of antivax rhetoric coming from the left. In general, the people on the right don't trust government, and the people on the left don't trust pharma.
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Replying to @LaurieEThomas @TheSciBabe
That is the main difference between right and left wing antivaxers. Think of it this way, though. Antivaxxers have so successfully coopted conservative messages of parental rights and anti-regulation that in many states
@GOP candidates have to pander to them in the primaries.1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes -
Replying to @gorskon @LaurieEThomas and
This is especially true in Texas, where, backed by dark money from Koch-associated sources, Texans for Vaccine Choice has become very influential. They even successfully primaried a pro-vaccine Republican.
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Replying to @gorskon @LaurieEThomas and
In Ohio,
@ohiogop is riddled with antivaxxers, and antivaxxers openly brag about how many lawmakers are sympathetic to their views.https://respectfulinsolence.com/2019/11/13/ohio-statehouse-antivaccine/ …1 reply 4 retweets 10 likes -
Replying to @gorskon @LaurieEThomas and
Thanks to the success of antivaxxers coopting conservative/libertarian messaging, vaccine mandates are becoming increasingly politicized. More and more
@GOP opposes tightening mandates, leaving@TheDemocrats to defend them.https://respectfulinsolence.com/2017/02/22/in-the-age-of-donald-trump-vaccine-policy-is-becoming-politicized-with-potentially-deadly-consequences/ …1 reply 8 retweets 18 likes -
Replying to @gorskon @LaurieEThomas and
I trace alignment to
#SB277 in 2015. A great law, and a great start, but it really mobilized the antivaccine movement and linked them with conservatives more than ever. Antivaxxers portrayed the law as government overreach, and too many conservatives agreed.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @gorskon @LaurieEThomas and
I saw this dynamic in my very own Congressional district last year. For eight years, my state senator was an antivaxxer, and for the two years before 2018 my state rep was, if not an antivaxxer, very antivax-leaning, too.https://respectfulinsolence.com/2018/08/03/jeff-noble-kerry-bentivolio-host-antivax/ …
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Yes, there are antivaccine Democrats, @RobertKennedyJr. Some are even officeholders. One, @marwilliamson, is even running for President. However, compare and contrast. In @GOP, candidates feel obligated to pander to antivaxxers and pay no political price for doing so.
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Replying to @gorskon @LaurieEThomas and
In contrast,
@TheDemocrats, candidates pay a price for being antivaccine. Just look at the criticism, very much justified, of@marwilliamson. Now look at@RandPaul, who is very much antivax. Does he pay a political price? No. There’s the difference right now at the end of 2019.0 replies 0 retweets 0 likesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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