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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is an anti-vaccine activist.
The ascension of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime anti-vaccine activist, to the nation’s top health post has alarmed medical experts, who point to his history of trafficking in conspiracy theories as disqualifying to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.Kennedy, whom President-elect …
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There have not been too many encouraging graph lines in recent weeks. One that does offer a breath of optimism, however, is the slight downward curve that implies one of the most toxic trends of our times – the anti-vaxx movement – might just be in retreat. The shift is incremental, but in a …
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at the inauguration of Donald Trump at the Rotunda of the US Capitol on January 20.Kevin Lamarque/Sipa/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. The below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our …
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In early March, Melissa Floyd, a self-described health freedom educator who co-hosts “The Vaccine Conversation” podcast, was forced to abruptly change plans. She and her co-host were supposed to pack up for a live multi-city tour. But the public health crisis borne from Covid-19 delayed the start …
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Like the fruitless search for the coronavirus “patient zero,” we may never know where the conspiracy theory falsely linking 5G communications networks with the COVID-19 pandemic first arose. But a more important question is this: who took a fringe conspiracy theory and promoted it to a global …
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Like the fruitless search for the coronavirus “patient zero,” we may never know where the conspiracy theory falsely linking 5G communications networks with the COVID-19 pandemic first arose. But a more important question is this: who took a fringe conspiracy theory and promoted it to a global …
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Getty Images / WIRED It started with one doctor. On January 22, Belgian newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws published an interview with Kris Van Kerckhoven, a general practitioner from Putte, near Antwerp. “5G is life-threatening, and no one knows it”, read the headline. One scientifically-baseless claim …
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PolitiFact | Fact-checking a conspiracy theory about 5G and the coronavirus Says a “5G LAW PASSED while everyone was distracted” with the coronavirus pandemic and lists 20 symptoms associated with 5G exposure. A medical worker uses her phone while wearing a surgical mask outside Mt. Sinai West on …
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Anti-vaxers rally in front of Presidential Office in Kyiv, Ukraine, August 22, 2019. Parents who … [+] don’t support vaccination of their children, oppose a bill that Ukraine passed, which banned the admission of unvaccinated children to attend public schools. (Photo by Sergii Kharchenko/NurPhoto …
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UNION TOWNSHIP – Assemblyman Jamel Holley (D-20th Dist.) fought hard against a bill that called for the elimination of religious exemptions for vaccinations, calling it government overreach. That controveesial bill, which included an 11th-hour amendment from Republican State Sen. Declan O’Scanlon …
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