From eighteenth-century sermons against smallpox inoculation to organized antivaccination leagues, familiar claims returned across generations: immunization was unnatural, physicians were corrupt, and government mandates concealed darker intentions.

Digital media accelerated the movement, but it inherited a centuries-old language of fear.

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