Measles Misinformation Brainwashing
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A shameful mass propaganda campaign is unfolding in the U.S., one that will make millions of kids needlessly sick with measles
By Dan Vergano
A long-running nationwide brainwashing campaign, conducted in plain sight, now comes to its deadly culmination. The predictable consequence—reviving a preventable childhood disease in the U.S.—is at hand.
With two children dead in Texas, an adult dead in New Mexico and nearly 900 confirmed cases of measles across 25 states, we are now at risk of a preventable, dangerous disease becoming endemic once more within a generation. A terrifically infectious disease, measles requires roughly 95 percent of people being vaccinated to stop its spread, and the U.S. has been below that since 2022.
Why is this happening? An April poll on measles beliefs from the health policy-centered Kaiser Family Foundation tells us. One quarter of the 1,380 people surveyed believe the false notion that the measles vaccine causes autism. Some 19 percent mistakenly believe the vaccine is more dangerous than the deadly virus it prevents. That’s simply untrue.
This is a shameful, mass propaganda campaign, unfolding in real time, championed by our top health official, a lawyer who recently announced a pointless study into the causes of autism. This propaganda exercise, headed by an unqualified anti-vaxxer, was conjured simply to raise questions about vaccines. The poll makes clear who this noise is aimed at: Republican voters, bidding to undermine their trust in science and government in ways familiar since COVID ...
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/measles-vaccine-denial-is-a-massive-brainwashing-campaign/