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The Bat Signal goes up! Antivaccinationists planning on crashing the CDC's Twitter party for National Infant Immunization Week

oracknows | April 30, 2014

Bat Signal time! Here's a quickie that I can't resist publicizing. Antivaccinationists appear to be planning on crashing the CDC's Twitter party for National Infant Immunization Week, which will take place at 1 PM EDT today. Here's our "friend" Ginger Taylor promoting the hashtag #CDCvax to her Twitter followers: Learn About National Infant Immunization Week at the #CDCvax Twitter Party on Wed, Apr 30 @ 1pm. #CDCvax http://t.co/3ZBN1uYKxt — Ginger Taylor (@GingerTaylor) April 30, 2014 The intent is clear. Ginger wants to flood the Twitter chat with antivaccine nonsense and conspiracy…

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