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21/03/2022

“Everything old is new again” in antivaccine messaging, this time around the idea that children don’t need to be vaccinated against a potentially deadly disease because the disease “only” kills a relatively small number of them. The exact same argument has been used by antivaxxers to oppose vaccinating against measles going back years and years. It is also, at its heart, a deeply eugenicist viewpoint

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis held a roundtable that teamed the Great Barrington Declaration authors with "Urgency of Normal." The tropes used were very old.

10/02/2022

Since the release of the coronavirus vaccines, there has been a lot of overheated coverage of their potential side effects. In truth, the risk of the coronavirus vaccines is microscopic. A good way to understand this is by comparing them to common over-the-counter painkillers.

This is an American article and if you weren't already aware, Acetaminophen/Tylenol= Paracetamol.

Since the release of the coronavirus vaccines, there has been a lot of overheated coverage of their potential side effects (most recently from podcaster Joe Rogan).

03/09/2021

Far right groups are disguising themselves as localist, grow-your-own and spiritual organisations.

The Blood and Soil mantra remains, which emphasise a mystical connection between race and land, remains popular among the British extreme right

19/08/2021

"I Used to Be An Anti-Vaxxer. Here’s What Changed My Mind"

I'm now a vaccine advocate. This is how I got here.

07/07/2021

Britain is cursed by a government of unpleasant and inconsiderate people acting in the interests of unpleasant and inconsiderate people.

The only people ministers really seem to care about are the Covid deniers on social media, some of whom have elbowed their way into the mainstream media

24/06/2021

Why do people fall for conspiracy theories?

You might not believe in QAnon, but you could still fall down the rabbit hole.

01/06/2021

What is the science behind the anti-vaccine movement, and is it any good? Let’s find out!

What is the science behind the anti-vaccine movement, and is it any good? Let’s find out!My Twitter: https://twitter.com/hbomberguyMy Patreon: https://www.pa...

11/05/2021

“It’s a tiny part of our population with a hugely outsized voice because they’re loud and mean and aggressive”

A Dallas woman who once garnered hundreds of thousands of social followers by doubting the safety of inoculations now says, “I trust the science.”

13/04/2021

16/02/2021

As the Tory government annouce a stream of socialist policies they said were impossible, the UK is finally seeing what the left have known all along.

10/02/2021

When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

Wendell Berry

“The Peace of Wild Things” by Wendell Berry is part of our “Poetry Films” series, which features animated interpretations of beloved poems from our archive. ...