Robert F. Kennedy Jr is undermining trust in vaccines with claims about aluminium that contradict scientific studies involving millions of people.
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Removing vaccine mandates in Florida will worsen health disparities among populations that already have lower vaccination rates.
Gamifying the fight against dangerous medical misinformation.
Viruses mutate all the time. Vaccines don’t cause this – they help filter which strains survive.
There’s no solid evidence that thimerosal harms children. RFK Jr.’s handpicked vaccine advisory committee voted against using it in the one type of flu vaccine where it is still used.
Vaccine Nation is a timely, urgent and often deeply personal account of vaccination’s role in our world.
Anti-vaccination sentiment can be seen as part of a larger societal trend towards individualism.
Given his controversial views, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination as Health Secretary could create challenges for credible news reporting on health topics. However, media can learn from the pandemic.
New Age beliefs, alternative wellness practices and political conspiracies all fall under the umbrella of stigmatized knowledge, which can be attractive to anyone, no matter their political leanings.
It is now not uncommon to find people supporting leaders like Donald Trump while insisting the state refrains from intervening in their lives.
Victorian anti-vaccine literature shows that the fears and concerns remain largely the same today.
Naomi Klein uses her frequent confusion with ‘doppelganger’ Naomi Wolf to spark an exploration of doubles, mirror-worlds, and the gulf between left and right.
COVID truthers use four enticing promises to gain a loyal following.
Adding COVID-19 to a list of ‘designated diseases’ will not make vaccination mandatory for school entry. But it may help increase COVID-19 vaccine uptake among children.
Anti-vaccine group moderators said Facebook provided an environment where they could safely offer support to others.
Trying to convince people to trust the basic institutions of Canada and each other is not enough. Economic divisions create a trust divide that threatens Canadians’ way of life.
Research confirms that Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, bears heavy responsibility for the death toll in his country, at every wave of the pandemic.
As COVID-19 continues to evolve, surprise, disappoint and frustrate us, efforts by politicians to pretend it’s behind us is a dangerous form of gaslighting that will deepen societal divisions.
Many COVID-19 vaccination campaigns encourage doctors to serve as a trusted source of vaccine information. But certain vaccine-hesitant providers may stymie these efforts.
Some of the most persistent myths about COVID-19 vaccination have been false rumours that it can affect fertility in men or women. There has never been any evidence to support this misinformation.
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