Vaccines have long been considered safe, but many people still believe they are not. A new study shows that people who think they know more than medical experts are more likely to believe that vaccine are not safe.
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It’s time to stop confusing sterile debates and pseudoscience with the healthy controversies that nourish scientific progress.
Australian parents who visit complementary health practitioners are less likely to vaccinate their kids. But could these practitioners be best placed to educate sceptical parents about vaccination?
Anti-vaxxer movement is often portrayed as a powerful force. They are anything but.
People universally believe scientists’ solar eclipse calendars, but vaccine warnings or climate predictions are forms of science that strangely do not enjoy equivalent acceptance.
In an era when opinion often trumps evidence in public health issues, it’s time to support and invest in evidence-based medicine to protect the public from dangerous, poorly informed beliefs.
Documentaries are vital vehicles for explaining the world.
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.
A push for all unvaccinated kids to be excluded from day care is coercive, punishes families and has no evidence to back it. Here’s what we can do instead to boost vaccination rates.
Speaking on the ABC program Insiders, One Nation leader Pauline Hanson suggested there are tests available to see if children will have an adverse reaction to vaccinations. We asked three experts.
Reassuring people “not to worry” about public health issues like vaccination or fluoridated water doesn’t work. Nor does telling people “don’t panic”. So, what does?
Some scientists refuse to debate or appear with those they consider to be unscientific. But is this the best approach to combat anti-science narratives?
When a high proportion of a community is immune it becomes hard for diseases to spread from person to person – a phenomenon known as herd immunity.
Jim Carrey’s anti-vaccination tweets employ a number of techniques used by anti-science cranks. By understanding them, we can shield ourselves from well-intentioned but ill-informed voices.
Spain’s fascist past has complicated the state’s relationship with anti-vaccination groups, now a rare disease has appeared again after 28 years.
A small dose of a weak form of anti-science can inoculate people against the real thing, just like a vaccine.
Australia is unique in using parental financial incentives for immunisation.
The akedah narrative – the story of Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son Isaac at God’s command – is one that has long inspired and haunted Jews, Christians and Muslims. In being prepared to kill…
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, Oklahoma State University
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Associate Professor, Labour studies, Brock University
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Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Managment, School of Public Health, Texas A&M University
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Associate Professor, health communication, Washington State University
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Research Fellow, Center for Philosophy and History of Science, Boston University
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Professor and Director, Edward R. Murrow Center for Media & Health Promotion Research, Washington State University
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Associate Professor, University of Oxford
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Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC L3 Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Assistant Professor in Social Psychology, University of Nottingham
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Professor, Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, School of Public Health, Global Disease Epidemiology and Control, Johns Hopkins University
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Assistant Professor of Philosophy & Disability Studies, Georgetown University
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Doctoral Student, Centre for the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, University of Oxford
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Associate Professor of Politics, Deakin University
