{"id":8284,"date":"2025-11-11T23:02:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T23:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/11\/childrens-health-defense-conference-pro-vaccine-doctor\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T23:02:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T23:02:43","slug":"childrens-health-defense-conference-pro-vaccine-doctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/11\/childrens-health-defense-conference-pro-vaccine-doctor\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: I\u2019m a physician who went to the anti-vaccine movement\u2019s biggest gathering. More of my colleagues should too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Opinion: I\u2019m a physician who went to the anti-vaccine movement\u2019s biggest gathering. More of my colleagues should too<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>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<p>Over the next two days, I heard versions of the same arc again and again: loss reframed as mission, grievance redirected into organizing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/11\/11\/childrens-health-defense-conference-pro-vaccine-doctor\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Read the rest\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Craig Spencer<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/11\/11\/childrens-health-defense-conference-pro-vaccine-doctor\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opinion: I\u2019m a physician who went to the anti-vaccine movement\u2019s biggest gathering. More of my colleagues should too 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2433,2143,2151,2195],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-8284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childrens-health","category-first-opinion","category-policy","category-vaccines","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}