Gee I wonder why so many more parents are flirting with anti-vaxx beliefs, Emily. Could it be the anti-vaxx adjacent messaging in your own article about this phenomenon?
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/anti-vaccine-studies-flawed/681648/
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/anti-vaccine-studies-flawed/681648/
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I missed that episode of the show completely
Universal Healthcare/MFA: "How dare you suggest we copy our European peers!?!?!?!?!?!????"
Always follow the money.
https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/03/children-and-covid-transmission-your-child-is-basically-a-vaccinated-adult.html
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6137759/
"The Atlantic!"
Do they insist mainly on costs of Treatment X (risk of vax reax; public outlays) & less (or not at all) on benefits (reduced mortality, morbidity, poverty, inequality) ?
If « yes » they’re just Fox News with a fancy degree.
Anti-vaxxers will seize on *any* perceived discrepancy to cast public health as fundamentally illegitimate. You cannot appease them.
https://bsky.app/profile/brianstelter.bsky.social/post/3li67rzzmrc2r
a) it was ethylmercury — a different, less harmful substance than methylmercury; and
b) only trace amounts.
Regardless, authorities eventually removed it to appease their 'concerns.'
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rfk-jr-and-the-mainstreaming-of-the-anti-vaxx-movement/id1535408667?i=1000623032301
They lie! They still constantly say, "There's mercury in the vaccines!!!" even though it's even less true now than it was in the 1990s.
Or they use the CDC's appease as evidence against it: "If the mercury wasn't harmful, why did they remove it?!?!?!?!"
"We just think the booster schedule should follow international guidelines!" is a smokescreen. They want children and adults to die of preventable illnesses.
...I'm going to go lie down.
science: how does it work?
They live in forever absolutes, where nothing changes and no new information is gained/processed
Probably seemed reasonable at the time.
i should be reading this in 18 pt yellow comic sans on a red background
Insert Sartre on the anti-Semites here.
That's like a developing nation saying they don't need yellow fever vaccines (or another tropical illness) bc the US doesn't recommend our citizens get one regularly.
It’s Emily “I cherry pick and misrepresent data to justify never altering my lifestyle for my children’s wellbeing” Oster
Of course she’s sympathetic to antivaxers
She talks about her kids and keeping them safe but has killed far more with her national-stage op-eds.
I was also shocked to find out vaccines are in some sort of bizarre situation where doctors are reimbursed by insurance? You can’t pay out of pocket.
Women put up with too much generally IMO.
at the Atlantic?
2 horrific articles
in less than 2 days?
You have an audience. They don’t. They can only explain it THROUGH the media. Call these officials. Relay their explanation to your audience!