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Topic: anti-vaccination movement

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is interviewed on Fox News outside of the West Wing on Sept. 9, 2025. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

RFK Jr is shaming moms, not helping kids

Amanda Marcotte
Anti-vaccine mandate protesters demonstrate, on August 24, 2021, outside of the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, to support the Vaccine Choice and Anti-Discrimination Act, a bill that would prohibit mandatory vaccinations, and vaccination status disclosures. (STEPHEN ZENNER/AFP via Getty Images)

Anti-vaxxers co-opt "my body, my choice"

Nathan Nobis
People hold signs at a protest against masks, vaccines, and vaccine passports outside the headquarters of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) on March 13, 2021 in Atlanta, Georgia. To date, there has been over 534,000 deaths in the U.S. due to covid-19. (Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images)

Anti-vaxxers turn on the vaccinated

Nicole Karlis
Mark Zuckerberg | Anti-Vax protester (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Facebook's soft ban on anti-vax content

Nicole Karlis
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A protester holds an anti-vaccination sign as supporters of President Donald Trump rally to reopen California as the coronavirus pandemic continues to worsen, on May 16, 2020 in Woodland Hills, California. (David McNew/Getty Images)

Inside the mind of an anti-vaxxer

Jonathan Berman
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Proposal to increase demand for vaccines

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A sign explaining the local state of emergency because of a measles outbreak at the Rockland County Health Department in Pomona, N.Y., March 27, 2019. (AP/Seth Wenig)

GOP moves toward anti-vaxxer stance

Igor Derysh
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Who is "Anti-Vax Mom"?

Keith A. Spencer
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Coming of age unvaccinated

Jane Roberts - Undark
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"Help! My parents never vaccinated me"

Nicole Karlis
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Ramifications of the anti-vaxxocalypse

Nicole Karlis
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