How Public Vaccine Policy Apologists Use ‘Firehosing’ to Spread Misinformation

By Jeremy R. Hammond, Guest Contributor

­On November 7, 2019, the Guardian published an article by Lucky Tran, who attacks talk show host Bill Maher for having hosted a discussion with Dr. Jay Gordon that was critical of public vaccine policy. Tran stated that “anti-vaxxers” use systemic strategies to spread their misinformation, including “firehosing”, which relies on pushing out as many lies as possible as frequently as possible. The intention is to rob facts of their power by inundating us with so many wild opinions that it becomes exhausting to continually disprove them.

However, to anyone who’s actually seen the interview it is patently obvious that it’s Dr. Tran, along with the Guardian and every other major media organization, who is systematically engaging in science denial and utilizing the strategy of “firehosing” to misinform the public about vaccines in service to the existing political establishment.

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