Yep.
Figure 11. Political outlooks and risk perceptions.
A different popular claim attributes concern over vaccine risks to a left-leaning political orienta-tion. “Vaccine hesitancy” is, on this account, held forth as the “liberal” “anti-science” analog to “con-servative” skepticism about climate change (e.g., Green 2011). The survey results suggest that this position, too, lacks any factual basis. In contrast to risks that are known to generate partisan disagreement generally—ones relating to climate change, drug legaliza-tion, and handgun possession, for example—vaccine risks displayed only a small relationship with left-right political outlooks. The direction of the effect, moreover, was the opposite of the one associated with the popular view: respondents formed more negative assessments of the risk and benefits of childhood vaccines as they became more conservative and identified more strongly with the Republican Party
