All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. - Viral Texas - Anti-Vax Genealogy - God's Will - Soft Eugenics - Could It Happen Here? You can now listen to all Cool Zone Media shows, 100% ad-free through the Cooler Zone Media subscription, available exclusively on Apple Podcasts. So, open your Apple Podcasts app, search for “Cooler Zone Media” and subscribe today! http://apple.co/coolerzone Sources/Links: https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2025/05/20/measles-updates-texas-cases-pass-700-as-illness-reported-in-30-states/ https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/the-measles-outbreak-in-west-texas-and-beyond https://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/2025/03/24/data-these-charts-show-how-measles-vaccination-rates-declined-in-texas-public-schools/ https://www.dallasnews.com/news/texas/2025/03/24/too-good-for-this-earth-parents-of-child-who-died-in-measles-outbreak-say-no-to-vaccine/ https://www.verywellhealth.com/measles-outbreak-texas-11682808 https://www.cdc.gov/measles/data-research/index.html https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8828106/ https://www.latimes.com/newsletters/la-me-ln-essential-california-20190507-story.html https://slate.com/technology/2025/04/measles-cases-epidemic-worst-case-vaccine.html https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/rfk-jr-plandemic-funding-1235173801/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1200696/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8802588/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1123944/ https://time.com/7205900/anti-vaccination-movement-history/ https://historyofvaccines.org/getting-vaccinated/vaccine-faq/vaccination-exemptions https://historyofvaccines.org/blog/timeline-of-vaccination-mandates https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-68106-1_2 https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/rfk-jr-plandemic-funding-1235173801/ https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-02-02/rand-paul-on-vaccines-most-of-them-ought-to-be-voluntary- https://time.com/5175704/andrew-wakefield-vaccine-autism/ https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/the-evidence-on-vaccines-and-autism https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-bombastic-19th-century-anti-vaxxer-who-fueled-montreals-smallpox-epidemic/ https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/plague-the-red-death-strikes-montreal-feature https://www.cascadepbs.org/2020/05/seattle-always-had-anti-vaxxers-even-during-smallpox https://www.cascadepbs.org/mossback/2025/02/history-vaccine-skepticism-1920s-seattle-rfk-jr https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/03/texas-measles-outbreak-death-family/681985/ https://www.dallasnews.com/news/texas/2025/03/24/too-good-for-this-earth-parents-of-child-who-died-in-measles-outbreak-say-no-to-vaccine/ https://www.christianitytoday.com/2013/09/measles-outbreak-megachurch-kenneth-copeland-vaccines/ https://www.npr.org/2013/09/01/217746942/texas-megachurch-at-center-of-measles-outbreak https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUGuJkVgXNA https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/kenneth-copeland-blow-coronavirus-pray-sermon-trump-televangelist-a9448561.html https://www.ksat.com/news/texas/2025/03/04/west-texans-mennonites-at-center-of-measles-outbreak-choose-medical-freedom-over-vaccine-mandates/?utm_source=chatgpt.com https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/03/12/measles-vaccinations-texas-pastor-revels-in-schools-state-low-rates/81975293007/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19602363/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11700278/ https://www.genome.gov/about-genomics/educational-resources/timelines/eugenics https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/29/politics/abbott-migrant-transport-order-covid https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/racist-covid-infection-theories-arent-just-wrong-they-are-deadly/ https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/measles-maha-and-soft-eugenics/ https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/maha-and-soft-eugenics-revisited-the-autism-tsunami-dr-oz-and-your-patriotic-duty-to-stay-healthy/ https://www.nsdoku.de/en/groups/educational-program/the-nazi-society-of-exclusion http://www.worldofinclusion.com/res/qca/Lest_We_Forget.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20250213085155/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2021/11/19/anti-vaxxers-try-rewrite-history-truth-nazis-vaccination-not/ https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/07/health/hhs-cdc-vaccines-autism https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/05/01/nx-s1-5383172/rfk-jr-placebo-vaccine-testing-studies https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9577438/ https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/04/10/1168141163/the-dream-of-wiping-out-polio-might-need-a-rethink https://www.news-medical.net/news/20250427/Measles-could-return-to-endemic-status-if-US-vaccination-rates-fall-further.aspx https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/health/polio-vaccine-outbreaks.htmlSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #21
The gang discuss Israeli attacks on Iran, tragedies at Trump’s military parade and the No Kings Protests, the sale of public lands, and the Supreme Court ruling on trans healthcare for minors. Sources: https://hellgatenyc.com/brad-lander-detained-by-federal-agents/ https://www.wilderness.org/articles/blog/congress-making-more-250-million-acres-public-lands-available-sale https://subscriber.politicopro.com/eenews/f/eenews/?id=00000197-7b7e-dfde-abd7-7fffacc70000 https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/30/2025-02009/protecting-the-united-states-from-foreign-terrorists-and-other-national-security-and-public-safety https://www.npr.org/2025/06/09/nx-s1-5427998/trump-travel-ban-countries-immigration-enforcement https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/after-two-day-manhunt-suspect-charged-shooting-two-minnesota-lawmakers-and-their-spousesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Anti-Vax America: Could It Happen Here?
As anti-vax beliefs become increasingly widespread, and vaccination rates drop, the greater the risk of some sort of massive viral outbreak or the return of horrific illnesses such as polio. This episode will explore what could happen if anti-vax beliefs spread further into United States politics and culture. Sources: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9577438/ https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/04/10/1168141163/the-dream-of-wiping-out-polio-might-need-a-rethink https://www.news-medical.net/news/20250427/Measles-could-return-to-endemic-status-if-US-vaccination-rates-fall-further.aspx https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/health/polio-vaccine-outbreaks.htmlSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Anti-Vax America: Soft Eugenics
Anti-vaccination rhetoric is often framed by proponents as a sort of medical freedom, the ability to decide what one wants to do with their own body. It’s an argument that can appeal to crunchy granola types and religious zealots alike. But there is also a darker side to this rhetoric that reveals an embrace of eugenic ideas among anti-vax advocates, whose preferred “herd immunity” approach to outbreaks subordinates the interests of older people, those with disabilities, and members of minority groups to others. This episode explores the history of eugenics as it relates to vaccines and unpacks how modern anti-vax politics tends towards eugenic responses to viral pandemics. Sources: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19602363/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11700278/ https://www.genome.gov/about-genomics/educational-resources/timelines/eugenics https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/29/politics/abbott-migrant-transport-order-covid https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/racist-covid-infection-theories-arent-just-wrong-they-are-deadly/ https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/measles-maha-and-soft-eugenics/ https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/maha-and-soft-eugenics-revisited-the-autism-tsunami-dr-oz-and-your-patriotic-duty-to-stay-healthy/ https://www.nsdoku.de/en/groups/educational-program/the-nazi-society-of-exclusion http://www.worldofinclusion.com/res/qca/Lest_We_Forget.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20250213085155/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2021/11/19/anti-vaxxers-try-rewrite-history-truth-nazis-vaccination-not/ https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/07/health/hhs-cdc-vaccines-autism https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/05/01/nx-s1-5383172/rfk-jr-placebo-vaccine-testing-studiesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Anti-Vax America: God’s Will
For Peter, the father of the deceased child and a member of a Mennonite community in West Texas, the death of his child was God’s will. Many in the Mennonite communities of Texas and across the United States do not vaccinate their children, and their anti-vaccination stance is in line with their general religiously informed practice of eschewing modernity and its technological advances. But it is not merely the few sectarian Mennonite communities that still exist in the United States that have taken a stance against vaccination. Mainstream evangelical and charismatic congregations that embrace much of the modern world have also embraced anti-vaccination beliefs. This episode explores the relationship between conservative Christianity, anti-vaccination beliefs, and contemporary right-wing politics. Sources: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/03/texas-measles-outbreak-death-family/681985/ https://www.dallasnews.com/news/texas/2025/03/24/too-good-for-this-earth-parents-of-child-who-died-in-measles-outbreak-say-no-to-vaccine/ https://www.christianitytoday.com/2013/09/measles-outbreak-megachurch-kenneth-copeland-vaccines/ https://www.npr.org/2013/09/01/217746942/texas-megachurch-at-center-of-measles-outbreak https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUGuJkVgXNA https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/kenneth-copeland-blow-coronavirus-pray-sermon-trump-televangelist-a9448561.html https://www.ksat.com/news/texas/2025/03/04/west-texans-mennonites-at-center-of-measles-outbreak-choose-medical-freedom-over-vaccine-mandates/?utm_source=chatgpt.com https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/03/12/measles-vaccinations-texas-pastor-revels-in-schools-state-low-rates/81975293007/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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