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Will Carless

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How ‘crunchy mom’ vaccine skeptics joined RFK Jr.’s MAHA movement

And you have people, you do have people who are impacted by vaccines.

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How ‘crunchy mom’ vaccine skeptics joined RFK Jr.’s MAHA movement

Brandy may be one of them.

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How ‘crunchy mom’ vaccine skeptics joined RFK Jr.’s MAHA movement

And so those stories are able to influence a lot of people.

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How ‘crunchy mom’ vaccine skeptics joined RFK Jr.’s MAHA movement

Now, let's be very clear.

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How ‘crunchy mom’ vaccine skeptics joined RFK Jr.’s MAHA movement

The vast number of people who take vaccines have no problem whatsoever, right?

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How ‘crunchy mom’ vaccine skeptics joined RFK Jr.’s MAHA movement

But as one of our experts says,

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How ‘crunchy mom’ vaccine skeptics joined RFK Jr.’s MAHA movement

The problem with vaccines is that the good that they do is invisible to society.

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How ‘crunchy mom’ vaccine skeptics joined RFK Jr.’s MAHA movement

It's always there.

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How ‘crunchy mom’ vaccine skeptics joined RFK Jr.’s MAHA movement

You don't see that people aren't getting measles because they're not getting measles.

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How ‘crunchy mom’ vaccine skeptics joined RFK Jr.’s MAHA movement

What you do see is if one in a million people has an allergic reaction to a vaccine, then that's a very tangible thing that people can grab hold of.

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How ‘crunchy mom’ vaccine skeptics joined RFK Jr.’s MAHA movement

Basically, the complication with covering this world is that there is a kernel of truth to what they're saying, and that there are certain people out there who are manipulating and using that kernel of truth to cast doubt on medical science in general, to cast doubt on vaccines.

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How ‘crunchy mom’ vaccine skeptics joined RFK Jr.’s MAHA movement

And of course, that, according to the experts, is very, very dangerous for society.

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How ‘crunchy mom’ vaccine skeptics joined RFK Jr.’s MAHA movement

I don't have any data for you, but I think it's very clear that on the grassroots level, I mean, this is a big movement.

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How ‘crunchy mom’ vaccine skeptics joined RFK Jr.’s MAHA movement

These are hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people who are watching these videos on Instagram, who are watching these TikToks, who are reading these posts on Facebook, who are deeply, deeply involved in this movement.

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How ‘crunchy mom’ vaccine skeptics joined RFK Jr.’s MAHA movement

I think anybody listening to this will know somebody who believes these things.

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How ‘crunchy mom’ vaccine skeptics joined RFK Jr.’s MAHA movement

who is in this movement in some way, shape or form.

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How ‘crunchy mom’ vaccine skeptics joined RFK Jr.’s MAHA movement

Now, they're not all calling themselves crunchy.

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How ‘crunchy mom’ vaccine skeptics joined RFK Jr.’s MAHA movement

They're not all getting out there and kind of preaching this and posting themselves.

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How ‘crunchy mom’ vaccine skeptics joined RFK Jr.’s MAHA movement

But a lot of people out there have this kind of skepticism.

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How ‘crunchy mom’ vaccine skeptics joined RFK Jr.’s MAHA movement

And so I'd say it's a very significant movement and kind of in keeping with