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Ep. 165 - Is Anti-Vaxx Really Anti-Science?
Vaccines have encountered resistance ever since they were invented in the late eighteenth century.
But vaccine skepticism has never been as vocal—or as widespread—as it has become in the United States in recent years.
Much of that has to do with the policies of the Trump administration, in particular Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., whose drastic changes at the CDC have reversed decades of American vaccination policy.
But what explains such broad receptivity to vaccine skepticism among wide swaths of Americans?
On this episode, Commonweal associate editor Regina…
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