Reuben Pitts
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Reuben Pitts
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Chess, ancient languages and debunking pseudoscience. Will try (and probably fail) to avoid politics. 🇺🇦 🇵🇸
I can never quite get my head around this figure.

It's genuinely hard to think of a single other policy view which, if implemented consistently, would cause as much preventable human death as antivaxxerism.
The measles vaccine has saved 94 million lives over the past 50 years, and it plus vaccines against 13 other pathogens have cut infant mortality by 40 percent and saved 154 million lives.
154 MILLION LIVES 🧪
Anti-vaxxer RFKJ is a menace to global health www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...
See How Many Lives Vaccines Have Saved around the World
Vaccines are the first step toward health equity in many parts of the world
www.scientificamerican.com
November 15, 2024 at 7:06 PM