Vaccine Evangelists, Apostates, & Apologists: Part 6 - The Apologists Continued
Author: Jordan Hendarson
This is the sixth, and penultimate, installment of the essay series, Vaccine Evangelists, Apostates and Apologists. These essays are a study of the vaccine debate itself, using historical mortality questions as the focal point of this analysis. Here are the links to the earlier installments:
Part 3 - The Red Herring: A Tour of the Motte
We have so far in this essay series looked at two case examples of vaccine apologetics. Those were:
Case Example #1 of Vaccine Apologetics Isabella B’s article Graphical Proof that Vaccines Work.
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Case Example #2 of Vaccine Apologetics: Dr. David Gorski’s articles.
Both these case examples we reviewed and deconstructed in depth in Part 3 and 5 of this essay series.
Now we will look at many more case examples of vaccine apologetics, but we will spend far less time with each as most of them are very similar in their core strategies to what we have already reviewed. I will mostly give brief commentary for each case example of vaccine apologetics, often no more than a few at a glance bullet points, with the occasional more elaborate demonstration mixed in.
The purpose of this selection of case examples of vaccine apologetics, spanning two decades, is to provide us a basis for identifying and studying the principal strategies used by the vaccine apologists, which I’ll summarize in the 7th and final installment of this essay series The Vaccine Apologists’ Playbook.
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Not the end of the 6th part of this series of essays.
Editor’s note. Due to some time-management issues the essay is not copied to this page further on, but readers can get the continuation of this installment via the PDF link provided below. Check also the correspondence with the author information that comes after the PDF file link.)
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Correspondence:
many comments and questions will be most valuable when simply placed in the comments below this article where other readers can engage with the comments and questions, and benefit from seeing the exchange of ideas. That being said, don’t hesitate to contact me directly. Here is one of my current emails:
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(I will get back to you, but not always very fast).
Jordan Henderson lives in Washington State in the Northwest of the United States. He works in oil paints, and charcoals. A portfolio of his works can be viewed at either of his websites: Original Paintings – Fine Art Prints
