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Same as it ever was: Antivaxxers target Orthodox Jews with COVID-19 misinformation

COVID-19 misinformation targeted at Orthodox Jews
This should be retitled “Top Ten Lies About COVID-19 Vaccines.”

About a year before the COVID-19 pandemic, large measles outbreaks among Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn and Rockland County were linked to misinformation targeted to their communities by antivaxxers. History is repeating itself with COVID-19.

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Richard Dawkins’ painfully simplistic take on measles among Orthodox Jews: “Religion poisons everything.”

Was Richard Dawkins right?

Richard Dawkins saw the measles outbreaks among the Orthodox Jews of Brooklyn and Rockland County, and Tweeted, “Religion poisons everything.” Unfortunately for him, it’s way more complicated than that.