Vaccinologist Peter Hotez explains how the movement to oppose science and scientists has gained power.
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La richesse des groupes antivaccins
The pandemic has been lucrative for anti-vaccine groups. The two most influential in the United States saw their revenues more than double between 2020 and 2021. Although they are officially non-profit organizations, one of them was able to pay its director a salary of half a million dollars a year.
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‘I can’t believe we’re talking about polio in 2023’
The Covid-19 pandemic eroded trust in science. The 2024 election, public health officials fear, may make it worse.
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The anti-vaccine movement is on the rise. The White House is at a loss over what to do about it.
A Biden administration that vowed to restore Americans’ faith in public health has grown increasingly paralyzed over how to combat the resurgence in vaccine skepticism.
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This pediatrician has a stark warning about the risks of ‘anti-science’
A pediatrician, author and co-inventor of a low-cost COVID-19 vaccine warns that the anti-vaccine movement has morphed into a political force that threatens the world’s gains against deadly childhood infections like measles.
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$66.6M lawsuit filed by anti-vaccine activist thrown out of court
Lawsuit filed by former family doctor Daniel Nagase ruled to be frivoulous, vexatious and an abuse of process.
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B.C. woman sentenced to 18 months probation for coughing at grocery employee during pandemic
A British Columbia judge has sentenced a Vancouver Island woman to 18 months of probation for deliberately coughing in the face of a grocery store employee and shoving her shopping cart into another worker during the earliest days of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Column: RFK Jr. gets around to blaming the Jews
It has been well noted that, whatever their starting points, conspiracy theorists sooner or later get around to blaming the Jews.
During a press dinner in New York last week, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is hoping to convert his portfolio of chuckleheaded conspiracy theories about COVID-19 and all sorts of other things into the semblance of a presidential campaign, went there last week.
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How Joe Rogan’s vaccine-debate pitch undermines real science
Most politicians know that in any public debate, persuasion, charm and oratory count more than do mere facts.
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Residents abandoned to a violent occupation during ‘Freedom Convoy’: Report
Comments closedPeople who live and work in downtown Ottawa endured several weeks of widespread human rights abuse, amidst a climate of threats, fear, sexual harassment and intimidation marked by racism, misogyny, antisemitism, Islamophobia, homophobia, transphobia, and other expressions of hate and intolerance.
While convoy organizers claimed there was diversity among the participants and supporters, and that was true to a limited extent, it is clear that the overwhelming majority of people involved in the protests were white males.
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Anti-vaccine activism melded with US antisemitism – study
Because of rising anti-vaccine activism and some key global policy missteps, more than 70 years of global health gains are in danger of being eroded, according to a physician writing in the peer-reviewed Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal published by the Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa.
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Antisemitism surges during pandemic
“International Holocaust Remembrance Day is important to recognize, because it commemorates arguably the worst-case scenario for a liberal democracy,” declared Daniel Panneton, director of allyship and community engagement at the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies.
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How COVID Truthers Breathed New Life Into an Antisemitic Symbol
The widespread appropriation by COVID truthers of the yellow star that the Nazis forced Jews to wear is a sign that public displays of antisemitism have become normalised in modern Germany to an unthinkable degree, experts say.
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Anti-vaccine protest in Canada spurs outrage
In a scene at odds with Canadians’ reputation for niceness and rule-following, thousands of protesters railing against vaccine mandates and other COVID-19 restrictions descended on the capital over the weekend, deliberately blocking traffic around Parliament Hill.
Some urinated and parked on the National War Memorial. One danced on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. A number carried signs and flags with swastikas.
In the aftermath of Canada’s biggest pandemic protest to date, the demonstrators have found little sympathy in a country where more than 80% are vaccinated. Many people were outraged by some of the crude behavior.
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Germany’s Anti-vaccination History Is Riddled With Anti-Semitism
Jewish people were blamed for spreading disease, and considered expendable victims.
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