CIA effectively stopped the extermination of the Polio virus - indirectly

Both the spy thing and the impotency thing rumors were going on before the bin laden raid.

BillSeurer said:

Both the spy thing and the impotency thing rumors were going on before the bin laden raid.

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Yeah, anti-vaccination conspiracy theories have existed and even been somewhat widely held in some regions of the world. The use of a vaccination ruse in one particular CIA operation is not the origin of these ideas, but it may likely increase how credible they appear in some populations.