Is Russia Also Behind the Anti-Vaccine Movement?
By Julio
Severo
Accusations against Russia, coming from
left-wingers and right-wingers, are so trendy today in the Big Media that the they
added another accusation: Russia is behind the anti-vaccine movement.
According to the DailyMail report titled “Russian trolls and
Twitter bots are driving the global anti-vaxxer movement online, study
reveals”:
“Since
2009, the proportion of so-called anti-vaxxers has increased… The debate over
shots has become dramatically more heated and if social media activity were
your measure, you might think that anti-vaxxers are winning. In fact, anonymous
spam bots and Russian trolls are behind an out-sized proportion of social media
activity against vaccination, according to the revelatory study published today
by George Washington University.”
According to a New
York Post report titled “Russian internet trolls spread anti-vaxxer propaganda”:
“More
than 250 tweets linked to an agency backed by Vladimir Putin’s Russian
government used more sophisticated tactics,” sharing “anti-vaccination messages
75 percent more than average Twitter users.”
CNN, dubbed by Trump as FakeNews Media,
said in a report
titled “Why Russian trolls stoked US vaccine debates”:
“Russia’s
meddling online went beyond the 2016 US presidential election and into public
health, amplifying online debates about vaccines.”
In a report
titled “Russian trolls and Twitter bots exploit vaccine controversy,” the
Washington Post said,
“Public
health experts battling dangerous misinformation about the safety of vaccines
have a new foe: Twitter bots and Russian trolls.”
There are many other members of Big Media blaming
Russia for the increase of interest in the anti-vaccine message. There is an
obvious powerful collusion of Big Media to dupe parents that the base for their
anti-vaccine stance is “misinformation” from Russia!
If Russia can be used as a scapegoat for
the political ailments of U.S. left-wingers and right-wingers, why not also of
the financial ailments of Big Pharma in their losses over parents choosing to
protect their children from immoral and even dangerous vaccines?
Before 2009 I had strong views against
vaccination not because of alleged Russian indoctrination. I was in touch since
the 1980s with the U.S. homeschool movement, where mandatory vaccination is not
an indisputable dogma.
When I learnt the truth about vaccines
from the U.S. homeschool movement, I had absolutely nothing with Russia, and
for many years the only connection I saw was between the anti-vaccine movement
and the homeschool movement.
Big Media spent years demonizing parents
who protect their children from vaccinations. Because their dirty tricks did
not work, now they come up, in collusion with Big Pharma, with the propaganda
that anti-vaccine parents have been somehow duped by Russia!
Hollywood mega-star Chuck Norris has articles against
vaccines. Has he been also duped by Russia?
What will Big Media do next? Will it say
that the homeschool movement is a Russia strategy to destroy the West? Even
though homeschooling is legal in Russia, the American model is older.
I will not be surprised if they say that
the Loch Ness monster is a Russian invention or that Russia killed Elvis
Presley. After all, it is just trendy to blame Russia for everything, for
anything and for nothing.
Portuguese version of this article: Rússia
está também por trás do movimento anti-vacinas?
Source:
Last Days Watchman
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