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The original anti-vaxxer

Today, Explained
Today, Explained
Episode • Mar 26, 2021 • 41m

When a Swedish American pastor refused to get a smallpox vaccine in 1902, he ended up in the United States Supreme Court. The Atlantic’s new podcast The Experiment tells the story of Pastor Henning Jacobson.

Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained.

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