I think the people who do this the most are the ones that deep down know their beliefs can’t be justified but still want to cling to them. So they want others to believe the same thing, to get some kind of comfort in numbers, when there is a lack of real evidence.
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The article you linked to is totally nutzo. I wouldn’t believe anything in it, including what they attribute to Kennedy.
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RFK Jr. is an anti-vaxxer…
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I guess he is nutzo, too! But I meant don’t use that article as a source for anything but craziness.
Natural News is a 100% woo-based site.
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Mike Adams (owner and publisher of Natural News) and RFK jr have been fellow travelers for a very long time. And both are utterly irredeemable loons. Best filed and ignored.
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i don’t know about kennedy but the other guy is probably making bank with his loon news. he may or may not be a loon himself, he just found a role to play that makes him money. ( and a way to ignore the suffering it causes others )
I am going to assume you have not been involved in the vaccine wars for the last 20 years. Mike Adams is either a true believer or an amazing actor. The effect is not different, though. RFK Jr is almost certainly a true believer. He developed a very respectable reputation as an environmental lawyer, and then squandered it all in the antivaxx movement. Both have caused irreparable harm to many many people and are bilking their marks for big money. So, yes, both are making bank on their scams, whether they actually believe it or not is kinda immaterial. Something about goats and irony?
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Came here to say, the irony of people complaining about hypothetical government monitoring in vaccines…from their goddamn cellphones on Facebook.
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Darn it! I accidentally clicked on the link for the tiny cell phone designed to beat the “Boss” metal detectors. And now I’m going to get a barrage of ads for keisterable products from Amazon. 
Through decades of systemic attacks on public education: Public school defunding; textbook creation monopolized by science deniers; the school-to-prison pipeline; “standardized tests” given so much priority that teachers are forced to teach to the test rather than actually educate; & privatized charter schools for the rich, with the poor left in unheated, unventilated, overcrowded schools. Betsy DeVos is just saying the quiet part out loud.
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You have just defined organized Religion.
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I like it when urban myth trackers will follow the narrative as it mutates and metastasizes over different media.
In this case, people’s fear about lack of privacy applies pretty squarely to tracking data being bought and sold over the internet, the internet of garbage allowing hackers to subvert security devices, and so many other such holes…
…but there isn’t the perception that we can do anything about that, really. So instead, mutate the threat into something invisible hitchiking on a health measure that we are allowed to say “no!” to.
There’s not a lot one can say to the antivaxxers who believe this stuff, but there is definitely a lesson here for a government trying to get its citizens to protect our collective selves: Don’t lie to people.
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This is so silly. It’s already been done with tattoo ink.
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another interesting aspect of this is the consistency of republican projection.
i wonder if it makes me a conspiracy theorist to wonder if the “nanoparticles tracking” is a deliberate attempt to muddy the waters over actual tracking. ( or, maybe the conspiracy theory of tracking gave them the idea to do actual tracking. it’s chickens and eggs all the way down. )
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When I was a kid, I laughed and the stupid things people believed in the past. It is now obvious that despite our technological progress, we have progressed little since Theodoric of York.
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Out of curiosity I did some digging and microscopic RFID tags have been made:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/316102137_MINI-RFID_TOWARD_IMPLANTABLE_CELLULAR_SENSORS
I’m doubtful they’d be read-able through the skin through; quite apart from any attenuation from the tissue (probably significant at 60Ghz) the inverse square law is not going to be kind to detection at a distance.
My SWAG: their beliefs are so fragile, the mere existence of non-belivers drives them to convert as many as possible. Perhaps the same thing drives religious zealots.
I’m confident in my atheist views. I have no desire to convert anyone, for I don’t care if disagree.
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The puma stalking me as I stroll my rough mountain trail needs no damn nanoparticles to track me…Kitteh-sense is quite sufficient. Folks fearing injected tracking devices are welcome to move to bear and puma country. Just do not bring dart guns here and try to inject them with your own tracking nanites. They dislike that.
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