Itâs a real shame this is about communicable diseases. Otherwise Iâd be happy to let natural selection do its thing.
She sounds like she needs some calibration: the accepted dog-whistle for demolishing-science-while-pretending-to-support-it is âSound Scienceâ. Thatâs the one you see any time a little âuncertaintyâ needs to exist in order to forestall some tedious and expensive environmental regulation or the like.
âSound Dataâ is either a mutant strain, or this one canât deliver her lines quite right. Iâll have to keep an eye out for other instances.
Meanwhile in EuropeâŚ
A single case of diphtheria in Spain (the first one in 30 years) sparks a nationwide vaccination movement.
If Spain can remember the diphtheria outbreak that spawned the Iditarod Dog Sled Race, why canât we?
This is why we canât have a nice countryâŚ
If you search the anti-GMO sites, itâs pretty hard to find one that is not also anti-vaxxer. Anti-GMO people make a big deal of being offended when people say they are also anti-vaxxers, but the sites seem to indicate there is a pretty broad overlap. Certainly the themes and psychology of conspiracies, martyrdom, saving their children, and bearing the burden of being The Smartest Guy In The Room all overlap.
They did have that brouhaha with the flu back in 1918.
At least they learn from their lessonsâŚ
Itâs a one-way overlap AFAICT. Anti-vaxxers are almost universally anti-GMO, but theyâre only a small subset (of a group more accurately described as âGMO-wary,â btw.) You donât think the European Union is anti-vaccination, do you?
And again, people like this refer to the notion of âparental rightsâ. Parents have no rights with respect to their children, they have only responsibilities.
It would be interesting to compare the EU and the US, because in the US the number of anti-GMO activists is much much smaller. In the US, there seems to be a community driven by generic fud and woo that supports overlapping beliefs. The number of activists on similar issues seems larger than they really are because on the various issues itâs the same people popping up over and over again. I think a lot of this is rooted in the animal rights movement and traditional medical quackery combining various ideological beliefs such as animal research (vaccines) doesnât apply to humans and that homeopathy plus organic food make you immortal anyway. Vaccines and GMOs are just part of the dogâs breakfast that arenât subject to any level of rational thought⌠I think many anti-GMO activists have transitioned from anti-vax to anti-GMO publicly while remaining closet anti-vaxxers. Also, see how many of these anti-vaxxer + anti-GMO sites now say that âGMOs cause autism.â Yes, itâs convenient to just change one word of the pitch, but they are targeting the same audience. They are not saying âGMOs cause baldnessâ to reach a new audience, they are saying âVaccines GMOs cause autismâ in order to target that same anti-vaxxer audience.
Meanwhile on the conservative end of the spectrum some antivaxxers are part of the general conspiracy theory subculture (chemtrails, UN invasions etc). And in the US medical quackery has deep roots going back to the 19th century and a lot of sexual hysteria.
http://christiansandsolosex.com/history/19thcentury.html
In America it seems a broadly anti-fact movement
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