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To Nuremberg or not to Nuremberg? That is the antivax question.

Nuremberg doctors: A question of justice.
Nazi doctors facing justice in Nuremberg in 1947.

Punishing public health officials for their “crimes” has long been an antivax fantasy. The Brownstone Institute has a question and can’t decide if it agrees, even as it echoes the same rhetoric.

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COVID-19 vaccines and the Nuremberg Code, revisited

The Nuremberg Code
No, vaccine mandates, for COVID-19 or other diseases, are not anything like what these Nazi doctors did.

Antivaxxers love to claim that vaccine mandates (especially COVID-19 vaccine mandates) violate the Nuremberg Code and call for Nuremberg-style tribunals to hold public health and vaccine advocates “accountable”. As usual, they have no idea what they are talking about. This is also not a new antivax narrative, although what is unprecedented is that what was once fringe even among antivaxxers is now mainstream.

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The “Nuremberg Code” gambit

The Nuremberg Code
No, vaccine mandates, for COVID-19 or other diseases, are not anything like what these Nazi doctors did.

Antivaxxers love to claim that vaccine mandates (especially COVID-19 vaccine mandates) violate the Nuremberg Code. As usual, they have no idea what they are talking about.