{"id":10817,"date":"2025-11-12T17:45:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T23:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10817"},"modified":"2025-11-12T17:45:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T23:45:34","slug":"im-a-physician-who-went-to-the-anti-vaccine-movements-biggest-gathering-more-of-my-colleagues-should-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/11\/12\/im-a-physician-who-went-to-the-anti-vaccine-movements-biggest-gathering-more-of-my-colleagues-should-too\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m a physician who went to the anti-vaccine movement\u2019s biggest gathering. More of my colleagues should too"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/11\/11\/childrens-health-defense-conference-pro-vaccine-doctor\/\">STAT<\/a> As I stepped into line to pick up my badge for the Children\u2019s Health Defense (CHD) conference last weekend in Austin, Texas, a gregarious man approached holding two tall plastic tubes he said contained \u201cclots\u201d from Covid vaccinated bodies. After 36 years in the Air Force, he told me, he\u2019d been pushed out for refusing the shot. Now in retirement, he calls funeral homes and surveys undertakers to document alleged vaccine harms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the next two days, I heard versions of the same arc again and again: loss reframed as mission, grievance redirected into organizing. I came to CHD out of curiosity \u2014 to hear how this movement wins people over, and why its message resonates so deeply. Over two days, I spoke with dozens of attendees between sessions and as a guest on the podcast \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/why-should-i-trust-you\/id1788335471?i=1000735997005\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Why Should I Trust You?\u201d, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Why Should I Trust You?\u201d<\/a>\u00a0I didn\u2019t change any minds, nor did my convictions waver. But every conversation was honest and respectful.<br><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STAT As I stepped into line to pick up my badge for the Children\u2019s Health Defense (CHD) conference last weekend in Austin, Texas, a gregarious man approached holding two tall plastic tubes he said contained \u201cclots\u201d from Covid vaccinated bodies. After 36 years in the Air Force, he told me, he\u2019d been pushed out for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vaccine-headlines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10818,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10817\/revisions\/10818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}