Worth also mentioning: they went out of their way to not give the full length of time for the comment period, essentially pretending that there were technical issues that delayed the meeting announcement.
You know, someone really believes what they say and is trustworthy when they makes an exception for their own kids and suddenly cannot give a straight answer: The U.S. secretary of #AntiVaxx, #rfk_jr, who—the D/HHS of all people—doesn't want to make recommendations
Something that still bothers me is that Jenny McCarthy never had to take responsibility for basically starting the anti-vaxx movement and pushing the lie that they cause autism.
Reason didin't work during covid. Appeals to community didn't work during covid. Appeals to morality and ethics didn't work during covid.
So lets try those again with measles, which we had already defeated at great effort and expense of multiple generations, gains erased by the sociopathic idiots.
Learn the lesson, don't repeat the failed strategies hoping they will work this time. These morons are a threat, nothing more.
""The MMR vaccine contains a lot of aborted fetus debris.""
And here we are
This somehow gets lost in the monsoon of #AntiVaxx propaganda, but so much of the opposition comes from the myth that #Vaccines are tainted with #AbortedFetuses
"...in the 1950s, scientists at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden propagated a polio virus in fetal cell lines to make into a polio vaccine."
and
"Many other vaccines, including those for chicken pox and rubella, are made using cell lines originally derived from fetal tissue from two pregnancies terminated in the 1960s."
NOTE: not --> aborted fetuses <-- but --> cell lines <--
“David Geier is NOT a vaccine skeptic. Stop calling him that. Letting him head an “investigation” into vaccines and autism will legitimize his decades of lies and illegal medical treatments that harmed children.”
Moroccan authorities have stepped up efforts to increase measles vaccinations as the country faces an epidemic of “historic levels”, France24 reports. Over 120 people have died in the outbreak local authorities are attributing to the global anti-vax movement which has gained a sizeable following since the Covid-19 pandemic. #measles#vaccines#outbreak#Africa#Morocco#Maroc#PublicHealth#epidemiology#AntiVaxx
"The Right’s ‘Natural’ Meat Obsession Is a Regressive Fantasy" by @sentientmedia
<> Another component for Kennedy of what constitutes “natural” is taking on things like red food dye, seed oils and ultra-processed foods — while promoting tallow, raw milk and grass-fed beef. </>
However, this is often a bad faith disguise. The use of naturalistic fallacies in these contexts, such as the claim that consuming animals is "good" because it's natural, is a disguise for another more insidious fallacy: the traditionalist fallacy or "appeal to tradition".
The traditionalist fallacy is, in this context, the argument that "consuming animals is good because we've done it for thousands of years".
Traditionalism is heavily political, as the people are finding out again in places such as the US. It's sometimes known as "paleoconservatism", and it should be no surprise that the popularity of the "paleo diet" culturally connects to this.
Conservatives, ever since the rise of modernity (end of 'traditional' society, end of monarchism and feudalism) have been trying to reinvent the past through pseudointellectual and pseudoscientific efforts. This has been at the heart of incredible amounts of suffering and horror since then. I have some notes on that on my pinned thread: https://veganism.social/deck/@veganpizza69/110813538364525265
A creepy and entitled rich man wants to infect every American child with measles like a comic book supervillain but one third of Americans voted for that so what can you?
Not just ask if their child is vaccinated. Also ask for a proof, ask for the vaccine certificate. If they are decent people, they won't mid. If they object in ANY way, run!
CET 
