Jamie-Lee Ross's ultra-right wing Advance NZ has paid for a 100,000 copies of a new, very professional-looking 40-page anti-vaccine magazine that it says it does not edit or own, which is questionable to say the least. The magazine's arguments are based on conspiracy theories*, not science. Health professionals are worried that the gullible will be persuaded not to take the vaccine, and some have called for prosecution. Read the full TVNZ article here.
* "Conspiracy theories are almost always offered in bad faith because they are non-falsifiable. The moment you provide evidence disproving a conspiracy theory, the response is invariably to resort to an even deeper conspiracy theory — or to accuse the debunker of being “one of them.”-- Jonah Goldberg,editor-in-chief of The Dispatch. His Twitter handle is @JonahDispatch.
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