I've been referring to antivaccine dog whistles longer than I can remember. That's why I'm gratified to see someone with a "more respectable" outlet is finally noticing. (Yeah, I'm being a bit pissy here, but that's just my nature at times.) 1/ https://twitter.com/BenMazer/status/972277693613068289 …
In fact, three years ago I seemed to have thought that I did coin the term, but it could have just been my ego speaking. 4/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2015/02/20/blowing-the-antivaccine-dog-whistle-again/ …
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Of course, I'm bipartisan in my skepticism. For instance, I didn't have a problem pointing out
@DrJillStein's antivaccine dog whistles in real time. It's not just right wingers. I'm an equal opportunity skeptic. 5/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2016/08/01/jill-stein-and-left-wing-antivaccine-dog-whistles/ …Show this thread -
Be that as it may, these days, the loudest and most influential (and therefore most dangerous) voices in the antivaccine movement tend to come from the right, not the left. 6/https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/texas-ground-zero-for-the-politicization-of-school-vaccine-mandates/ …
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Bottom line: I'm glad that people are starting to recognize the dog whistles that politicians and others who are either antivax, antivax-sympathetic, or pandering to antivaxers use to hide their antivax rhetoric but still let antivaxers know they're on the antivax side. 7/7
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