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Build For Tomorrow

Where the Anti-Vax Movement Came From

Build For Tomorrow

Jason Feifer

Business, History, Technology, Entrepreneurship

4.7573 Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

“One might suppose that the popular prejudice against vaccination had died out by this time,” one writer complains. It sounds like a lament from today, but in fact, it’s from 1875. Anti-vaxxers may seem like a product of our fake-news, health-hysteria modern times, but the fear that propels these skeptics is as old as the vaccine itself. How has modern medicine not shaken generations’ worth of suspicion and fear? We go back to look at two pivotal moments -- the birth of the vaccine and a 1905 Supreme Court case -- to understand what still motivates the anti-vaxxers of today. Get in touch! Instagram: @heyfeifer Twitter: @heyfeifer Web: jasonfeifer.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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This is Pessimists' archive. I'm Jason Pfeiffer. In the year 1900, Massachusetts was introduced

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to a local man that they would be hearing quite a lot about in the coming years.

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His name was Dr. Emmanuel Pfeiffer on March 3rd.

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1900, a story appears in the Boston Daily Globe headlined, Experimental Fasting!

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And then it goes on to report that.

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