Andrew Bridgen: how anti‑vaccine misinformation hampers the conversation about genuine vaccine injuries
Suspended MP Andrew Bridgen’s comments are a prime example.
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How anti‑vaccine sentiment helped raise funds and saved the lives of some B.C. ostriches
Leveraging political hot topics can make crowdfunding campaigns more successful. A recent proposed ostrich cull garnered a lot of attention from high-profile people.
Vaccines are being portrayed as limiting personal freedom – but this can mask the true reasons for hesitancy
Framing vaccines as an infringement of liberty is a powerful tactic, but obscures health and political factors that may actually drive resistance.
Vaccine refusers are health literate and believe they’re pro‑science. But this just reinforces their view
Australians who refuse vaccines spend a lot of time trying to understand vaccine choices and think they’re making evidence-based decisions.
Victorian Britain had its own anti‑vaxxers – and they helped bring down a government
Victorian anti-vaccine literature shows that the fears and concerns remain largely the same today.
In Vaccine Nation, Raina MacIntyre reflects on science, misinformation and the threat to 200 years of progress
Vaccine Nation is a timely, urgent and often deeply personal account of vaccination’s role in our world.
4 ways to talk with vaccine skeptics
Responding to someone who questions vaccination can be difficult. Before you react, it pays to assess the situation because weighing in can do more harm than good.
The anti‑vax movement is being radicalized by far‑right political extremism
Vaccine hesitancy has been a subject of intense study in the field of scientific communication. Anti-vaxxers’ recent radicalization needs to be looked at.
Climate and vaccine deniers are the same: beyond persuasion
Governments are worried. Vaccination rates are falling under the influence of a campaign of misinformation by a small minority of fanatics. Scientifically there is no debate about immunisation, with every…
A short history of vaccine objection, vaccine cults and conspiracy theories
Some people have objected to childhood vaccination since it was introduced in the late 1700s. And their reasons sound remarkably familiar to those of anti-vaxxers today.
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