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The Vaccine Book: Making the Right Decision for Your Child.
“It’s like, here’s your birth certificate, and here’s when your mom was crazy for a few years,” she says. For a few years, Oyakawa, an occupational therapist, was an anti-vaxxer.
Oyakawa vaccinated her first four children according to the routine schedule. But the birth of her fourth child was traumatic; she felt the doctors and nurses didn’t listen to her. “That kick-started me being very skeptical of the medical establishment,” she says.
With her next child, Oyakawa opted for a home birth, with the help of a midwife. In the process, she began to meet other “crunchy” parents, she says, including those who were opposed to vaccines. For a time, the Oyakawas were uninsured. Slowly, and then all at once, Oyakawa stopped going to the pediatrician and stopped vaccinating her children, including her new baby.
With the U.S. in the midst of a raging pandemic, a social justice reckoning and a political environment muddled by misinformation, itâs only natural that conspiracy theories are garnering so much attention.
At a crucial point in history when misinformation disguised as fact courses through the internet unchecked, critical thinking skills have gone out the window. As a country, we have given in to fear and propaganda. We accept lies that should be easily refutable from a logical standpoint.
Some of this shift in logical thinking can be accredited to anonymous fringe sources such as QAnon, a far-right conspiracy theory disseminated by anonymous users under the pseudonym âQ.â QAnon followers believe that a group of Satan-worshipping, cannibalistic pedophiles are running a global sex-trafficking ring and plotting against Donald Trump. âQâ insists that a day of reckoning resulting in the arrest of this group of prominent political figures and Hollywood elites is