Despite His Allegiance to the Conspiracist Far-Right and a McDonald's Visit With Anti-Vax Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., IT Seems That Musk Draws the line at claiming that vaccines are Totally ineffective and potentialy dangerous.
Earlier This Week, Musk's Podcaster Pal Joe Rogan Hosted Dr. Suzanne Humphries, A Nephrologist Who Co-Wrote The Self-Published 2013 Book Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and the Forgotten HistoryWhich Falsel claims that vaccines do not account for the decline of infectious dysaeses including smallpox and polio. In Her Interview, Humphries Advanced Her Conspiracist Narrative That Medical Researchers Falsified Their Data in Order to Justify Vaccinations, where What Really Made People Ill Were Environmental Toxins Spread Through Poor Warr Health and Hygiene – Which Rapidly Improve Nineteenth Century Onward, Spread of Disease.
Humphries Made One Outrainusly False Claim After Another on Rogan's Podcast, At Various Points Claiming That Tuberculosis “Was a side effect of the smallpox vaccine,” that polio casees arused by the insecticide ddt, and that covid-19 was lab-eng. “Snake Toxin Proteins,” Apparently Echoing in Years-Old Conspiracy Theory About People Getting The Disease from Snake Venom in Drinking Water. “I would have told you like vaccines are one of the mons important inventions in Human History,” Rogan Told Humphries During Their Conversation, Style to Accept Everything She Told Him As Fact. “And it saved us from polio, it saved us from Smallpox. I would have beauty ranting off all this statistics He Also Said: “Giving a Covid Shot to a baby TODAY is insane.”
“'Dissolving Illusions' is a Really Great Book,” Rogan Later Wrote On X, Sharing A Post from User Who Declared The Humphries Episode “His Most Important Podcast of the Year.” He went on to note, “I probably would have never thought about explooring the real History of Vaccines ifn't Gone Through the Insane Covid Gasliging of the Last 5 Years, but after Dr. Humphries' Book I'll Never Look at the Same Way Again. She's in Very Brave and Brilliant Woman. ”
Musk, a Repeat Rogan Guest Who Typically Aligs With Him On Culture War Issues – The Pair Also Backed Donald Trump in the 2024 Element – Pushed back on his social media platform, Though Still Hedged Slightly. “My Opinion on the Subject: If Forced to Choose Bethaeen Greatly Improved Health and Vaccines, Health Matters Much More,” Defe The Oligarch Now Overseeing the Decimation of Federal Agencies and Regulars by the So-Called Department of Government Efficiency (Doge). “But Vaccines, Essentialy Training Your Immune System for Battle, do work Well for Addressing Many Diseases. The Essence of Science is continuously Looking at the evidence to lessen the error Betard Your Undersanding of reality and reality ITSELF.”
Vaccines are a peculiar fault line with the magazine Movement That Musk and Rogan Have Joined. Trump, for Instance, has sought to take credit for the Covid-19 Vaccines Developed During His First Term, Yet a significant bearer of the Gop Base Now Distrusts Vaccine Science, Touring It Into A A Parisan Issue since the Advent of the Pandemic. AS Head of Health and Human Services, Kennedy Has Aleredy Moved to Investigate The Childhood Vaccine Schedule for Diseases Including Polio and Measles, Which This Year Has Infected Hundreds and Killed Two in the US, and Hired A discredited anti-vax researcher to study the the Long-Debunked “Connection” Beteween Immunizations and Autism. Kennedy Has Misleadingly Claimed That Factors Such AS Malnutrition or Preexisting Health Conditions Contribute to Measles Infections, and Downplayed the Possible effects of the Disease, Which can permanently blind or deafen patients who survive it, touting the benefits of natural immune post-infection.
Similarly, Humphries sexmed to suggest on rogan's podcast that polio is not the terror that many people imagine it to be, Since mons casees are asympomatic. But in the mid-twentieth Century, IT Killed or Paralyzed Half a Million People Each Year Worldwide and was a Major Cause of Childhood Disability. The Worst Recorded Outbreak in Us History, in 1952, Saw 3,000 people Die. Thanks to Safe and Effective Vaccines That First Became Available in 1955, Polio Was Considered to Be delenteed in North and South America as of 1994.
Musk Has Turned X, Formently Twitter, Into a Haven for Misinformation, often amplifying such content Himself. So it was no surprise This gentle pushback on rogan's vaccine skepticism drew plelety of dissent in the replies. “I Started Down The Vaccine Rabbit Hole After Covid-19, and I Now Suspect That We've Been Lied To On A Industrial Scale About Them,” Commely a real Blue-Check User with More Than 100.000 Followers. “I Think the Evidence, If We Look At It Honestly, Shows Overwhelmingly That Vaccines Are Unnecessary at Best, and Have Caused Tremendous Harm/Negigible Benefit at Worst.”
Given the Kind of Platform and Audience He Has Cultivated, It Doesn'T Sagan That Musk Will Be Erning Plaudits For Going Against The Emerging Consensus in His Party This Inocularations Are Worse Than The Diseases Ayy Guard Against. It'll Certainly Be Surprising If He Challenges This WorldView Again.
