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For years there has been a noticeable shift in the wellness community online, also commonly known as “crunchy” or “granola” lifestyles. These lifestyles evol...
Deception by omission: Del Bigtree’s ICAN calls the studies licensing MMR into question
Del Bigtree's antivaccine group Informed Consent Action Network issued a press release questioning the data used to license the MMR vaccine, with Bigtree claiming on a recent episode of his vlog Highw
Hidden cameras capture misinformation, fundraising tactics used by anti-vaxx movement
As anti-vaccination misinformation continues to persist online, an undercover Marketplace investigation provides a rare glimpse into inner workings of the movement.
The Conversation: The Great Barrington Declaration's advocacy for naturally acquired herd immunity to COVID-19 amounts to a global chickenpox party: naive and dangerous.
I Did My Own Research On My Son's Autism Diagnosis, And I Don't Regret It
"We were very hands-on parents. But in our dealings with his teachers and school administrators, there always seemed to be something left unsaid. It was like there was an elephant in the room that we didn’t know about." View Entire Post ›
National Institutes of Health officials reportedly told scientists to erase mRNA vaccine references on grants
National Institutes of Health officials reportedly told scientists to erase mRNA vaccine references on grants - ‘Kennedy’s war on vaccines has started,’ one scientist reportedly warned
How denial of airborne COVID transmission broke the world
Five years later, the greatest basic science failure in generations caused the pandemic harms highlighted by people across the political spectrum, and broke our social cohesion.
Child Dies from Measles in Texas as Disease “Comes Roaring Back” Amid Anti-Vaccine Disinformation | Democracy Now!
An unvaccinated child has died of measles, Texas officials announced Wednesday, the first death from measles in the United States in a decade. The child’s death in a hospital in Lubbock, in West Texas, comes as the largest measles outbreak in the state in over 30 years is now spreading to New Mexico. Since last month, 124 people have contracted the disease, most of them unvaccinated children. “The minute you stop vaccinating and maintaining that vigilance of 90-95% vaccine coverage, measles comes roaring back, and that’s what’s happened here in West Texas,” world-renowned pediatrician, virologist and vaccine expert, Dr. Peter Hotez, tells Democracy Now!
How RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine views could unleash vaccine-preventable diseases : Shots - Health News : NPR
With anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in charge of the nation's biggest health agency, it wouldn't take much tampering to enable vaccine-preventable diseases to make a comeback.