UPDATE in comments
Found on: https://www.reddit.com/r/vaxxhappened/ After seeing this post, I highlighted it and went searching... I was sure it was fake because of her background. Was I wrong! Not only is Christine Smith using her credentials to influence anti vaccine people to listen to and to vote for Kennedy, she is using the college name, Fort Lewis College, where she works, to spread disinformation and willfully misinform the public.
QUOTE: Saying Kennedy is "anti-vax" is name-calling that shuts down conversations
The third paragraph makes some sense but, it is also clearly a thinly veiled shout out to antivaccine nutters, of which there are already far too many.
A quick search found her to be a real person. https://www.linkedin.com/in/christine-smith-0189b7214
She is highly influencing in her college jobs, and was also a prof at other colleges. If she is this political online, just what is she teaching her students?
She sent it in as an opinion piece found here: https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/saying-kennedy-anti-vax-is-name-calling and here: https://www.the-journal.com/articles/saying-kennedy-anti-vax-is-name-calling/
I doubt the college would fire someone for this, because the last college I wrote did nothing about their lying, anti-vaccine prof who was twice as blatantly bad as this one. The political drivel helped cause hesitancy to vaccinate and at the very least Ms. Smith should be reprimanded. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8577882/ That disinformation and misinformation caused much harm and death during the pandemic is indisputable. Misinformation from medical professionals/ PHDs about COvid harmful
Christine needs to read more, before declaring her passion for communicating and research. Her passion should be looking for truth, not politicising the vaccines and providing more disinformation in the guise of an “expert” opinion!
RFK Jr. Incorrectly Denies Past Remarks on Vaccine Safety and Effectiveness
Kennedy: I think some of the live virus vaccines are probably averting more problems than they’re causing. There’s no vaccine that is, you know, safe and effective.
He denied saying that several times.
RFK Jr. says he’s not anti-vaccine. His record shows the opposite. It’s one of many inconsistencies
I guess his “health charity” being anti vaccine is not incongruous with what he is saying now as a presidential candidate? (According to your nutty professor)
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. strode onto the stage at a Southern California church, radiating Kennedy confidence and surveying the standing ovation crowd with his piercing blue Bobby Kennedy eyes. Then, he launched into an anti-vaccine rant. Democrats “drank the Kool-Aid,” he told people assembled for a far right conference, branded as standing for “health and freedom.”
“It is criminal medical malpractice to give a child one of these vaccines,” Kennedy contended, according to a video of the event, one of his many assertions that ignored or went against legal, scientific and public health consensus.
Then, Kennedy hawked his book. If just 300 attendees preordered it on Amazon that night, he told the crowd, it would land on the bestseller list and they could “stick it to Amazon and Jeff Bezos.”
Surely no “conflicts of interest, hmm Christine? Hmmm Lewis College?
A different research team found Kennedy’s group, along with the now-removed group called Stop Mandatory Vaccination, bought more than half of the anti-vaccine advertising on Facebook prior to the pandemic. A member of that team, David Broniatowski, of George Washington University, said the groups had targeted Facebook ads to reach women of childbearing age using demographic data.
“They’re much more effective at it than our public health infrastructure,” he said. “That’s in part because they just have a centralized foundation with a very clear sense of what it is they want to do.”
His calling mandates, a public health necessity in pandemics, Nazism was also disgusting. His rascism/bigotry pop up a lot as well. Read more in this and other URL for THAT fiasco!
RFK Jr Health Freedom for Humanity podcast in 2021
“For many, many years, I think parents were so gaslighted, and they were scapegoated, and they were vilified and marginalized, so that even parents of kids who were very, very badly injured, knew what happened to their kid, but they were just reluctant to talk about it. And I think now those days are over,”
Kennedy said. “We – our job is to resist and to talk about it to everybody. If you’re walking down the street – and I do this now myself, which is, you know, I don’t want to do – I’m not a busybody. I see somebody on a hiking trail carrying a little baby and I say to him, ‘Better not get him vaccinated.’ And he heard that from me. If he hears it from 10 other people, maybe he won’t do it, you know, maybe he will save that child.”
Kennedy repeated later in the podcast: “If you’re one of 10 people that goes up to a guy, a man or a woman, who’s carrying a baby, and says, ‘Don’t vaccinate that baby,’ when they hear that from 10 people, it’ll make an impression on ‘em, you know. And we all kept our mouth shut. Don’t keep your mouth shut anymore. Confront everybody on it.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Group Is a Top Buyer of Anti-Vax Facebook Ads
A new study found that 54 percent of anti-vaccine ads came from just two major anti-vax groups. Meanwhile, Facebook's efforts to regulate "political" ads have led them to remove scientifically accurate, pro-vaccine posts.
And all of that led to THIS tragedy…
Anti-vaccination advocates double down as measles kills 50 Samoan children
This horrific story should be brought up wach and every time RFK Jr. is mentioned.
https://www1.racgp.org.au/newsgp/clinical/anti-vaccination-advocates-double-down-as-measles
Here's Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Explicitly Voicing His Support For Anti-Vax Godfather Andrew Wakefield
How a Kennedy built an anti-vaccine juggernaut amid COVID-19
According to data from Similarweb, a digital intelligence company that analyzes web traffic and search, Children’s Health Defense has become one of the most popular “alternative and natural medicine sites” in the world, reaching a peak of nearly 4.7 million visits per month. That’s up from less than 150,000 monthly visits before the pandemic.
CHD’s effectiveness is in part because it’s central to a network of anti-vaccine websites that link to and amplify each other, creating a disinformation echo chamber that reinforces false narratives that downplay the dangers of COVID-19 while exaggerating the risks of the vaccine. For example, the day after the FDA granted full approval to Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, Kennedy and CHD sent out an article falsely claiming that the vaccine that was licensed was not the one that was available, said Dorit Reiss, a professor at UC Hastings College of the Law and an expert in vaccine law.
Any conflict of interest here?
Filings the group made with charity regulators in California show that in 2018, CHD reported $1.1 million in gross revenue. That grew to nearly $3 million in 2019. By 2020, the most recent year available, revenue had more than doubled to $6.8 million. It reported that it spent more than $3.5 million on program expenses last year, the first year of the pandemic. That includes producing 49 “educational videos” and six eBooks, CHD reported to Guidestar.
Kennedy’s group has also lobbied over vaccine legislation in the states, collected large sums of money from special interests such as chiropractors, and filed multiple lawsuits, including a $5 million lawsuit last year against Facebook. Among its claims is that Facebook deactivated the “donate button” on its page, hurting CHD’s efforts to raise money. In May 2019 alone, according to its lawsuit, Children’s Health Defense said it received $24,872 in user donations from its Facebook page. A federal judge dismissed the lawsuit in June, but CHD is appealing.
How Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Became the Anti-vaxxer Icon of America’s Nightmares
Moe on RFK Jr's bio and anti vax views:
Ms. Smith: I, as a Canadian pro-vaccine senior with no medical background whatsoever, am obviously more impassioned to convey scientific integrity and accurate communication than you are. I BACK UP what I write.
Christine says that saying Kennedy is "anti-vax" is name-calling that shuts down conversations.”
You are correct Christine M Smith. Kennedy is "anti-vax" and a conspiracy nutter and your lies need to be shut down. I have tried to be polite but...
UPDATE
Measles and Misinformation Are Two Huge Public-Health Threats
and this bitch is contributing. https://time.com/6564694/measles-antivaccine-misinformation/
There is no contact email for the college other than admissions. I can't even complain to the college administrators. If you make a comment on their sites they don't like, they remove it...
Social media:We reserve the right to delete any posts that violate our Social Media Policy for Official Accounts:
Links
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News fortlewis.edu/fort-lewis-college-news
Facebook facebook.com/FortLewis
Instagram instagram.com/fortlewiscollege
LinkedIn linkedin.com/school/fort-lewis-college
ZeeMee zeemee.com/school/fort-lewis-college
I found this Fecesbook where her pictures are mostly showing off her naked son adopted from China in Sept 2010. I am getting antivaxxer and Q vibes from this woman. I also have questions, Christine. Was he fully vaccinated or just enough to get him into the country? How does any adult with children not know that the pedo creeps look for naked pictures of children online and then sell them to other pedos?? There a dozen naked pictures, 4 of his rump and one with a penis. Way to go Christine… Your now teen son will be pretty pissed at you when he finds it. https://www.facebook.com/christinems3/
This one is private. https://www.facebook.com/christinems2/
I am not on Fecexbook so cannot see this one either… https://www.facebook.com/christinems/
It is her for sure. The youandfood site is kaput.
I am not going to look for more, but if anyone finds antivax info in her social media, please add it in a comment.