Introducing: Dr Anti-vax
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🗓️ 16 October 2023
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
Introducing Dr Anti-vax: the making of a modern panic
How did the anti-vax movement become so mainstream?
25 years ago, a British doctor Dr Andrew Wakefield sparked a global vaccine panic. Today, Alexi Mostrous, the reporter behind chart-topping hit podcasts Sweet Bobby and Hoaxed investigates how anti-vaxxers have gone from the fringes of public life to the centre of the culture wars that divide America and so many other countries, and the beguiling fall and rise of the man who started it all.
Episode 1 goes live on Tuesday 24th October and all three episodes will be available to Tortoise members on the free Tortoise audio app, and subscribers to Tortoise+ on Apple Podcasts.
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| 0:00.0 | We're in the middle of an anti-vax storm. |
| 0:09.6 | Kennedy is challenging President Biden for the party's nomination. |
| 0:13.1 | He's also a anti-vaccine activist. |
| 0:16.8 | It's a world of garbled science and outlandish claims. |
| 0:20.7 | So far, I have an RNA-modifying nanotechnology that has a luciferase in it. Oh, and by the way, in addition to fetal tissue, this particular technology has cryptocurrency in it. Does that sound appealing to you, sir? You are five times more likely to get sick and more than ten times more likely to die, if you've been what? |
| 0:38.0 | Vah, vah, vah, va, va, va, va, vaccinated. |
| 0:42.1 | Anti-vaxers and their cause have reached the top of politics. |
| 0:46.5 | In Florida, we reject the biomedical security state. |
| 0:52.0 | Florida has defeated Fauciism. Freedom has prevailed in the sunshine state. |
| 1:00.0 | And the chant of health freedom is now a sort of battle cry. My God made me perfect. I am not born into an |
| 1:08.4 | original sin that needs 72 vaccines. |
| 1:11.5 | I stand with you. |
| 1:14.2 | How did we get here? |
| 1:15.6 | And where will the anti-vax movement go next? |
| 1:19.2 | I'm Alexei Mostris, the reporter who brought you sweet bobby and hoax. |
| 1:23.1 | And from Tortus, this is Dr. Antivax, a new series about the war against vaccines, |
| 1:30.4 | a war involving ordinary mothers. |
| 1:32.5 | Parents out there thinking that it's a good idea to vaccinate, those parents, the parents |
| 1:36.5 | that I used to be, it is our job, it is our duty to warn them. |
| 1:40.8 | Billionaire backers and celebrity activists. |
| 1:43.6 | So I think they need to wake up and stop hurting our kids. |
| 1:47.7 | And behind them all, one beguiling British doctor. |
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