r/drama: r/UpliftingNews celebrates global crackdown on kooky mayo parents who refuse to vaccinate their kids. Conspiratards and lolbertarians everywhere are ir8.

Is this actually a thing? Why do I feel like anti-Vaxxers are just like, a handful of crunchy, degenerate mayos in Santa Monica and Reddit likes to throw their tendies around thinking they're everywhere?

1 pizzashill 2017-08-05

Way more anti-vaxxers out there than people realize. Trump, for example, is an anti-vaxxer and managed to increase the number of anti-vaxxers on the political right.

Something like 30% of his base had anti-vaccine views, only after it became obvious he did.

1 SexyCannibal 2017-08-05

tbf his exact words were "I'm not against vaccinations for your children, I'm against them in 1 massive dose.Spread them out over a period of time & autism will drop!"

1 pizzashill 2017-08-05

To be fair, this is a common tactic of anti-vaxxers known as the "I'm not anti-vaccine just pro-safe vaccine" gambit, much like the "I'm not anti-GMO, I just want labeling" gambit.

http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2016/08/01/jill-stein-and-left-wing-antivaccine-dog-whistles/

Regular readers will recognize this as the gambit I like to call, “I’m not ‘antivaccine.’ I’m pro-safe vaccine and don’t trust the FDA and big pharma.” I will grant that Dr. Stein was a little more—shall we say?—emphatic in her concession that vaccines do good than the average antivaccinationist making these arguments. One almost has to wonder if the lady doth protest too much. However, the rest of her word salad above could be cribbed from any number of antivaccine websites. Hell, even Andrew Wakefield concedes that vaccines do good and claims not to be “antivaccine.” Then he routinely launches into the same sort of rant that Dr. Stein engaged in above. An even better example is Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who’s been spewing antivaccine pseudoscience since at least 2005 and yet has the temerity to repeatedly characterize himself as “fiercely pro-vaccine.” In other words, denying being antivaccine counts for nothing if you’re repeating antivaccine tropes. It’s standard practice among antivaccine activists.

http://www.skepticnorth.com/2012/04/antivax-101-tactics-and-tropes-of-the-antivaccine-movement/

Skewering the science of vaccine safety and efficacy, while trying to create legitimacy for unfounded or discredited theories of harm.

Antivaccine advocates denigrate legitimate scientific studies, and the scientific process in general, why also trying to bolster scientific credibility for their own theories. Pseudoscientific conferences, like those offered by AutismOne, give the veneer of legitimacy to disproven beliefs.

Shifting the hypotheses and the villain, from MMR, to thimerosal, to other “toxins”, and more recently, “too many, too soon”. Censoring criticism, whether it’s at Age of Autism, Mothering.com, or other antivaccine sites that delete comments or restrict access to their events, creating virtual or real echo chambers.

Attacking the opposition, whether it’s David Gorski at Science-Based Medicine or lawsuits against physician Paul Offit or journalist Amy Wallace.

Or:

http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2015/09/15/the-long-sordid-antivaccine-history-of-donald-trump/

1 Ennui2778 2017-08-05

Well shit then. Alright.

1 aliceunknown 2017-08-05

The Butthole Gate family in Tennessee is anti-vax, retarded hippies can survive anywhere.

1 RV_Camping_Nightmare 2017-08-05

http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/one-map-sums-damage-caused-anti-vaccination-movement/

1 Ennui2778 2017-08-05

I fucking love science.

Kill yourself. Slowly.

1 RV_Camping_Nightmare 2017-08-05

Bill Nye, bro

1 jimmychim 2017-08-05

links to full thread

1 DivinePrince2 2017-08-05

Libertarians support freedom of choice, but not when it harms other people.