realize that in america most of the hesitancy is politically based what is your opinion of this phenomenon in other countries love your show listen daily paid subscriber keep up the great work it's different in different countries we've talked about vaccine hesitancy for example in france versus in italy and in other countries as well in in some places it is political as influenced by what's going on in the united states so there are other countries where folks have been convinced by the rantings of american right-wingers about it's authoritarian it's oppressive all of this different stuff and they've just sort of gone with that there's also a pretty sizable anti-big pharma sentiment in in some other countries that drives vaccine hesitancy and you know in the united states we talked about this with nicolas christakis two weeks ago before the covet vaccines in the united states you had anti-vaxx on the left and you also had it on the right the left-wing anti-vaxx tended to be motivated by distrust of big pharma i don't trust big corporations the anti-vax on the right tended to be dominated by i don't trust the government meaning if a school requires my kid to be vaccinated i don't trust that or whatever the case may be and so you had a kind of crossover of anti-vaxx from left and right in the united states coveted anti-vaxx is overwhelmingly right-wing there it's it still exists on the left uh jordan clepper recently did some interesting interviews with some folks in uh at the la area and they don't seem particularly right-wing they seem more of distrustful of vaccines along the sort of like reiki homeopathy herbs type thing which is more more of a left-wing thing and you see that more in other countries as well you see that in italy uh you see that in france as well so the answer to what drives anti-vax in other countries is it depends on which country and uh there's a little bit of everything floating around a next email came from pp who says hey david i was wondering if you could shed some light on this new fouchy bill gates email thread that alex jones and glenn beck are saying is a smoking gun that covid was a product of gain of function research and then them along with moderna had the vaccine created six months before the virus came out and released it on purpose and all kind of wacky stuff yeah i can't comment unfortunately i can't shed any light into that that sounds like five or six different conspiracy theories blended together into a smoothie of sorts and i have no idea how they all come together i've never even heard of them put together into one conspiracy like that one thing i think uh is is important to consider is if the conspiracy is so confusing that you can't even really come up with plausible motive linking all of these groups together like as i've said many times before finding motive alone does not prove a conspiracy theory but if you can't even find motive or understand it or even really understand what the theory is be skeptical of the people that are telling you that this is the way that things are austin rhoden about trump's
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