As you follow the anti-vaccine movement from the very beginning, it is easy to see the common threads that connect all of the players from the Victorian Age to the 21st Century. Germ theory denialism. Alternative medical providers. The media. What else? Fear, especially fear of vaccine-injury.
Not only are measles infections deadly, usually from pneumonia and encephalitis, but a natural measles infection can also cause years of immunosuppression, increasing your risk of death from other diseases too.
Polysorbate 80, also known as tween 80, is used as an emulsifier in many vaccines.
Larry King provided a high profile platform for many anti-vaccine celebrities and “to promote anti-vaccine pseudoscience.”
