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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Quackery

Quoth the antivaxer: “Vaccination is a religion.” Quoth Orac: “Nice projection, there.”

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Vaccine religion: This is what antivaxers appear to think that vaccination is, which might

Levi Quackenboss is one of the more oblivious and obtuse antivaxers out there. She demonstrates this again with a clumsy post comparing vaccination to religion.

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Contamination requiring ritual purification: Superstitious concepts at the heart of antivaccine beliefs

One form of ritual purification practiced in Japan. Antivaccine beliefs are steeped in concepts of contamination and the need for ritual purification, which they project onto pro-science advocates.

Much of the belief system that undergirds antivaccine views is rooted in superstition. That’s why it’s not a coincidence that antivaxers frequently speak in terms of contamination due to vaccines as a cause of autism and all the other conditions for which antivaxers blame vaccines and ritual purification in the form of “detoxification” as the treatment. These beliefs very much resemble religious beliefs, and antivaxers project them onto pro-science advocates.