After watching the PewDiePipeline [1] video, and now learning about the Yogapipeline ... I'm starting to wonder if this is a consequence of "flooding" or accumulation of disinformation due to an always-on firehose of falsehood [2].<p>[1] <a href="https://youtu.be/pnmRYRRDbuw" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://youtu.be/pnmRYRRDbuw</a><p>[2] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firehose_of_falsehood" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firehose_of_falsehood</a>
Anti-vax and like positions have been cause-celebre positions for other political leanings, previously and now. I guess the guardian doesn't want to look though it's archives and remember it's part in the affair.<p><a href="https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/society/2007/jul/22/health.medicineandhealth" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/society/200...</a><p>Course the original article, "New health fears over big surge in autism" is now inaccessible via the guardian.* How positively "fascist", eh guardian?<p>*Their are dozens of other "supporting" opinion and 'concerned' articles they haven't removed. Just look before 2012 and MMR.
For a very long time there’s been sort of a hippie overlap between organic/natural foods, alternative medicine, skepticism towards Big Pharma, and antivax. Prior to 2020, if you wanted to assign a political leaning to this scene, “fascist” is probably the last one you would pick. Likewise, it’s relatively new that antipathy to the World Economic Forum or Bill Gates is considered right-wing. And if you told anyone ten years ago that a prominent anti-government protestor would be a self-described “shaman”, you would have never guessed which side he would be on.<p>There’s a far more interesting story that isn’t being told here. How on earth did the right become a more welcoming environment for hippies than the left? When it comes to vaccines in particular, that’s easy: the mainstream center-left was all in on COVID vaccine mandates, and were willing to alienate alt-medicine hippies to impose those policies. Anti-vaxers were always a weird, unpopular fringe group, and it was rhetorically convenient to try and dismiss all lockdown-mandate skeptics as “antivaxers”. But it’s all part of the same broader political realignment we’ve been going through over the past decade or so.
At least in Germany (though articile is in England) this is not surprising. These people are and were against measles vaccines, Walddorf ideology is close to Antisemitism. I bet Jane is very likely against GMOs. And most arguments against GMOs leads to conspiracy theories very soon.
It's disconcerting that those "combatting disinformation" often neglect the vital practice of earnestly challenging their own beliefs.<p>It seems they're fighting for a change in figures of authority not rationalism.