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Likely because of a mistaken assumption of fears of autism. Politics only entered into this under Trump. https://slate.com/technology/2021/02/smallpox-vaccine-
by pstuart 5y ago
Likely because of a mistaken assumption of fears of autism. Politics only entered into this under Trump.
https://slate.com/technology/2021/02/smallpox-vaccine-bioattack-2003-health-care-workers-military-bush.html https://slate.com/technology/2021/02/smallpox-vaccine-bioatt...
- klyrs 5y agoAutism is one of many strawmen that the antivax movement throws out. You may have only become aware of this under Trump, but the antivaxers in my family are a flavor of anti-establishment Christian fundamentalists (quiverfull-aligned) that are absolutely political, and have been (I attest as a first-hand witness) for decades, long predating Trump's rise to power.