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What makes a physician become an antivaxer? (Part 2)

Andrew Wakefield

Orac contemplates a reason why doctors become antivaccine that he missed the last time he discussed this topic.

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Tomorrow, antivaxers march on Washington, and, boy, are they excited!

This is the banner that antivaxers will be marching under. Why is it that they always try to conflate "freedom" with the ability to let disease run rampant?

Antivaxers are marching on Washington tomorrow, as they did in 2008. The cast is different (other than Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Barbara Loe Fisher), but the dangerous pseudoscientific is the same.

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The antivaccine conspiracy theory narrative: You want it darker?

A hero with heroism
How antivaxers view themselves—and us.

Every story must have a victim, a hero, and a villain, and the central antivaccine conspiracy myth is no different.

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Antivaxers are petitioning the White House and Antivaxer-in-Chief President Donald Trump to listen to their demands.

Antivaxers think they have a friend in the White House, and they might very well be right.

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How antivaxers deceptively don the mantle of “vaccine safety activists”

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Robert De Niro laid down a stinking bomb of stupid last week. Pratik Chougule ate it up.

Antivaxers like Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. bend over backwards to represent themselves as “not antivaccine.” Don’t believe them. They are. It’s how they suck in the clueless, like Robert De Niro and Pratik Chougule.