Vaccines are a political technology. They require politics in order to achieve their scientific function.
Unfortunately, the U.S. political and scientific establishments lost track of this understanding after the end of the Cold War.
Author Thomas Levenson and I discussed this in the context of his book about the history of antivax movements.
Transcript, audio, and video here: https://plus.flux.community/p/antivax-arguments-havent-gotten-any
Matthew Sheffield
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