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If you aren't fluent in the subtleties of anti vax rhetoric, some of the phrasings and framings are obscure. But the True Believers are listening, and the article linked above covers how AV propagandists and influencers are spinning measles deaths to ensure the base doesn't lose trust in them.
THE FACTS, ACCORDING TO SCIENTISTS: Pneumonia is a complication of measles, and is the most common cause of death from measles in young children, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a subsidiary of HHS. READING BETWEEN THE LINES: Kennedy's comments suggesting measles didn't kill the child reflect longstanding tactics used to create doubt about vaccines, said Renee DiResta, a professor at Georgetown University who researches propaganda and has studied the anti-vaccine movement. She said Kennedy and Children's Health Defense have spent years telling people that measles is a routine and harmless childhood illness to justify the argument that a safe vaccine is somehow more risky than the disease. "Reframing these deaths as something other than what they are - deaths from measles, which is not harmless at all - is necessary to prop up the dual pillars of anti-vaccine propaganda in play here," she said. It reflects a similar narrative that emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic, when people who wanted to minimize its seriousness suggested people were dying "with COVID" rather than from COVID, said Richard Carpiano, a professor of public policy at the University of California, Riverside, who has closely followed Kennedy's anti-vaccine work. It's a way of minimizing the deadly nature of measles.
April 15, 2025 at 5:58 PM