Anti-vaccination rubbish comes to Turkey, too

An ultranationalist journalist’s book is a best seller. Unfortunately, anti-vac conspiracy theories are in full force. The journalist, Yalçın, is associated with a highly visited news site, Oda TV, and its propaganda against vaccination continues unabated. Years of the leftist critic of the pharmaceutical industry and anti-Americanism merge to produce this state of affairs… This campaign comes through not religious conservatives but secularist nationalists with a leftist touch…

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Six common misconceptions about immunization – WHO

Celebrities contributed to the anti-vaccination trend’s rise in Turkey, with nutritionist Canan Karatay condemning vaccines for aluminium content and ultranationalist journalist Soner Yalçın, wrote a book on the matter, saying vaccinations are “an American plot against Turkey.” https://t.co/7ssI1pgQH2

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