While scrolling on Facebook, I came across a post by USA TODAY discussing the horrors of crunchy moms who were — gasp — questioning things.
The caption for the piece reads:
As the crunchy moms movement swells, it is emblematic of an increasingly mainstream embrace of vaccine skepticism and a broader lack of trust in established medical science that is alarming scientists and experts in public health.
Flocking to the movement, and in far greater numbers, are women who question everything from the established benefits of vaccines, to how they are approved and tested, to their reported side effects, without their own personal experiences of harm resulting from vaccines.
Business partners Brandy Bright and April LoConti — friends for years and now sharing a tidy suburban home with a chicken coop and vegetable garden — embody the movement they have become devoted to.
Bright says childhood vaccines made her daughter sick, pushing her towards “alternative” research on the vaccine industry.
LoConti’s children never suffered such a fate, but nevertheless she’s been pulled in by Bright’s experiences, and stories from moms like her.
Over several interviews, Bright and LoConti spoke passionately about the research they have conducted into everything from seed oils to colloidal silver, to double-blind placebo-controlled trials for vaccines.
They laid out their reasoning for not trusting vaccines specifically, and the medical and pharmaceutical industries more generally. bit.ly/49NbPCF
Ah, yes, there is nothing scarier than “women who question everything.” We wouldn’t want the ladies to use their brains now, would we?
Tone deaf garbage like this is exactly why no one trusts the medical establishment or the media anymore. It paints questioning as dangerous, which is exactly how you get a bunch of rebels on your hands. If you tell people to sit down, shut up, and take this experimental vaccine (which may or may not make your heart explode), 9 times out of 10 they will think you’re up to something.
I was pleasantly surprised to see the majority of the comments on the post were receptive toward women thinking. How nice.
Moms are demanding more answers, more data, and more studies before injecting their children. There is nothing wrong with expecting more information from your physicians or vaccine manufacturers. And unless the medical establishment develops a willingness to have an honest dialogue with parents, these trust issues aren’t going anywhere.
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