Because of some perceived threat by Bill Gates potentially pushing for mandatory coronavirus vaccines, elements of the Right are drinking anti-vaccine Kool Aid environmentalists, like Joe Mercola and Rep. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., are all too willing to give out with a little help from the National Vaccine Information Center (it isn’t). Never forget that… Read More Environmentalists Feed Right-Wing Vaccine Skepticism
The Los Angeles Times reports that tattoo artist, entrepreneur and mom Kat Von D (Katherine Von Drachenberg) has apologized for her posts on Instagram expressing anti-vaccine views. Best of all, her son is vaccinated too. She stated: “When it comes to the vaccine issue,” she says with a slight tremble in her voice, “I was… Read More Kat Von D Apologizes for Anti-Vaxx Posts
A British mother of autistic children named Emma Dalmayne is also an advocate for kids with autism and has been threatened with death and rape just for criticizing people who harbor skepticism of the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine. She has gone so far as to openly challenge vaccine skeptics and opponents at screenings of… Read More U.K. Mother Threatened With Rape, Death for Criticizing MMR Skepticism
During January, a 4-year-old Colorado boy died of the flu after his parents followed the advice of people in an anti-vaccine Facebook chatroom.
Anti-vaccine activism is going from online chats to real life that include violent and intimidation tactics. The results are startling, if not downright horrifying. Never forget that anti-vaccine groups are largely influenced by environmentalists and now violence will be employed to achieve their aims to undermine or halt the spread of vaccines in order to… Read More Anti-Vaccine Activists Resort to Intimidation and Violence
An Ohio pediatrician named Dr. Nicole Baldwin received a flood of threats after posting a pro-vaccine video on social media post. In a playful Tik Tok video, Dr. Nicole Baldwin showed the benefits of vaccines, and said they do not cause autism. Thankfully, she is standing by her message. The anti-vaccine movement is heavily influenced… Read More Ohio doctor threatened after pro-vaccine Tik Tok video
By Neena Satija and Lena H. Sun, The Washington Post The nation’s oldest anti-vaccine advocacy group often emphasizes that it is supported primarily by small donations and concerned parents, describing its founder as the leader of a “national, grass roots movement.” But over the past decade a single donor has contributed more than $2.9 million… Read More A major funder of the anti-vaccine movement has made millions selling natural health products
The New Jersey legislature came very close to enacting a law, S. 2173, that would end religious or philosophical exemptions parents use to opt-out of vaccinating their children who attend state schools. Unfortunately, according to The New York Times, shortly after S. 2173 was passed by the State Assembly, it stumbled in the New Jersey… Read More New Jersey Scuttles Closing Vaccine Exemption Loopholes … For Now
By Mia De Graff – Daily Mail An anti-vaccine group called CrazyMothers has issued a plea to retire the term ‘anti-vaxxers’ because ‘derogatory’. In social media posts on Sunday, the group said it is ‘dismissivemy [sic] simplistic, highly offensive and largely false’ to call them ‘anti-vaxxers’ despite the fact that their members oppose vaccinations. The… Read More CrazyMothers Pleads to Stop Being Called “Anti-Vaxxers” Because It’s “Offensive”
Of the 53 dead, 48 are children aged 4 and younger. Beth Mole – 12/2/2019 – Ars Technica The government of Samoa will shut down for two days this week while officials try to curb a deadly measles outbreak that has sickened 3,728 and killed 53—48 of whom were children ages 0 to 4 years… Read More Measles outbreak spurred by anti-vaxxers shuts down Samoan government
