Meet The Internet Entrepreneur Profiting Off The Anti-Vaxxer Movement
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Meet The Internet Entrepreneur Profiting Off The Anti-Vaxxer Movement
Consider the “Vaccine Zombie.”
He bears some resemblance, in both wardrobe and dance routine, to Michael Jackson, and his story might in fact rival Jackson’s for sensationalistic details. According to the song’s lyrics, the trouble begins while in line for a vaccine shot, and once injected, everything spirals downward quite quickly.
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The single was written, recorded, produced and performed by Mike Adams, AKA The Health Ranger. Adams is a leading voice in the anti-vaccine movement, and his website, Natural News, is a collection of eccentric content on the subject. Purported scientific proof of most every misleading and dangerous claim about vaccines can be found in an article bearing his byline. The one about vaccines containing toxic levels of mercury? He covered it. The link between vaccines and autism? Adams asserts not only that it’s proven, but that there has been “systematic suppression” of the evidence. The entire Jenny McCarthy-Jim Carrey affair, wherein two Hollywood celebrities used their platform to champion a rightfully discredited study? Adams printed and promoted their public statements. Via a press handler, Adams refused several requests to speak to ThinkProgress for this article.
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