There’s no mystery here. Vaccine uptake declined after the start of the pandemic because anti-vax disinformation went mainstream and financial interests against public health protections minimized the threat of covid
Tag: disinformation
CDC ACIP is a nightmare scenario.
I tuned into the CDC ACIP meeting to hear some woman reading some anti-vax screed rattling on about RSV vaccines a script that sounded like it was written by a chatbot.
Anyone who publishes online, with even a modest audience, is constantly hit with a barrage of “feedback”.
Feedback could be good, but is often bad, and not just bad, but weird bad. I’m again getting another round of people telling me they’re hearing “behind the scenes” the perennial “Chloe is harming the community” claims. What community and what harms, nobody seems to be able to specify, perhaps out of politeness, or perhaps […]
Medical disinformation is to blame for waning vaccine sales and insufficient opposition to the anti-vaxxers in the Trump regime.
The demand for vaccines is down because there have been no real campaigns to get people vaccinated, and yet there have been huge and well funded disinformation campaigns scaring people about vaccines so that they are not making clear-headed risk benefit decisions.
We need public information campaigns on scams.
There’s a public library making video content on this, but we need more. There should be robust funding of libraries to be able to do this, and also just public figures being sent out to warn people about how scams are perpetrated.
“Get over it” typically means “Shut up and go away because I don’t care.”
Mitch Mcconnell literally said people would “get over” losing Medicaid. I don’t think that’s true.
Deregulation of AI is part of an overall ideological agenda to deregulate everything.
Boondoggle The Hot, New Plan to Bribe States Into Deregulating Artificial Intelligence AI infrastructure money in exchange for an AI Wild West. Pat Garofalo Jun 24, 2025 Wielding phony concerns about a “patchwork of state laws,” big tech interests and their allies in the federal government are attempting to eliminate in one swift stroke a host […]
We do need a shadow cabinet, but a private medical society is unlikely to overthrow the current regime.
Don’t wait for some elite doctors and scientists to save science for the people from “behind the scenes”.
The grotesque vision of accusation in a mirror propaganda.
This is not an unusual cognitive warfare tactic unfortunately.
Conservatives are being tricked.
If you were wondering why republican voters seem to persistently believe things are looking up.
The truth about MAHA from the Indivisible Truth Brigade.
Truth Brigade: Medical Misinformation Madness 6.11.25 Indivisible Jun 13, 2025
Hyping chemtrail conspiracy theories are a backhanded way to attack climate activism.
Many references to “climate engineering” are actually a part of climate denial & disinfo narratives. When media attempts to both-sides coverage of climate engineering disinfo, they walk right into the hands of controlled opposition, led up the garden path by tech hype decoys. Chloe Humbert Apr 19, 2024 It may appear superficially that “two sides” […]
RFKJr is a menace to public health & science.
“While Kennedy has a long history of promoting anti-vaccine conspiracy theories, he has not explicitly promoted chlorine dioxide as a treatment. However, in January, during his Senate confirmation hearing, he referenced chlorine dioxide while praising Trump for “looking at all of the different remedies” for Covid…”
People are still being complacent about the anti-vaxxers in positions of authority.
I’m worried about people using this as a reason to “not worry about vaccine access” when “life hacks” and “one neat trick” for vaccine access is not an individualism solution to anything.
If you “agree with” any of MAHA you’re signing onto eugenics.
MAHA is a movement involving anti-vax eugenicist principles. Even if you can pick out one little part of it that sounds ok, do you really want to sign on to the stink of eugenics?
Anti-mRNA is Anti-Vax.
Make no mistake, people spreading fear of mRNA vaccines are spreading anti-vax misinformation.
CDC ACIP doctor already explained the problem with “shared decision making” on vaccine recommendations.
And I quoted this in my CDC ACIP public comment.
I don’t trust Paul Offit.
I wouldn’t recommend looking to Paul Offit for leadership on vaccines, because what the Trump administration is doing he was lobbying for in the Biden administration all along. This is from a thread I posted on social media after becoming concerned that people might think this is the guy to lead up championing vaccine access. If you […]
Shadowbanning is happening and communities are definitely messed with on social media.
This is not just about shitposting. Do not rely on one platform for communicating with people who you would like to stay in touch with. Will Sam Altman and His AI Kill Us All? The Bulwark May 23, 2025 Karen Hao: “she consistently felt like she was being shadowbanned and when I talked with um researchers […]