A Morbid Symptom of Our Time: Anti-Vax

About this episode

The episode discusses the Anti-Vax movement as a significant aspect of America's societal issues, featuring insights from Kira Kieffer's research.

The Anti-Vax movement is a morbid symptom of our time. Whoever writes the history of America's unraveling will have to pay attention to anti-vax and refer to Kira Kieffer's book Unvaccinated Under God a thorough study of its nearly 50 year history and its grounding in religion in the broadest sense of the word. In this FRDH podcast, Kieffer explains to anti-vax sceptic Michael Goldfarb how the movement went from legitimate concerns over flaws in a single vaccine to becoming a political cause exploited by Trump and Bobby Kennedy Jr. Give us 53 minutes to explain it all to you.

People in this episode

Host: Michael Goldfarb

Guest: Kira Kieffer

Topics covered

• Anti-Vax movement
• history
• political causes
• religion
• public health
• vaccine skepticism

Keywords

• Anti-Vax
• Kira Kieffer
• vaccine history
• political exploitation
• public health
• Trump
• Bobby Kennedy Jr.

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Unvaccinated Under God

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