Pro-Vaccine vs Anti-Vaccine: Risks, Benefits, Arguments.
Measles is a potentially deadly disease, and health experts explain that parents refusing to vaccinate their children are the cause behind its resurgence. Pertusis, or whooping cough, has also seen.
With this in mind, researchers conducted a new study designed to test out the effectiveness of one potential intervention aimed at changing people’s anti-vaccination attitudes: highlighting factual.
Who are the anti-vaxxers? Erica Lowther skipped the chicken pox and Hepatitis B vaccines for her sons. May Andrade halted her kids' vaccination shots after they had already had some. And Guggie.
Leaving the Anti-Vaccine Movement. I can’t tell you how I became pro-vaccine without first telling you how I became anti-vaccine. When my oldest daughter was about four months old, I discovered “crunchy” parenting. I entered a world full of cloth diapers, “intactivism,” and home birth. I made a lot of new friends who shared my beliefs.
Founder and currently Executive Editor of Science-Based Medicine Steven Novella, MD is an academic clinical neurologist at the Yale University School of Medicine. He is also the host and producer of the popular weekly science podcast, The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe, and the author of the NeuroLogicaBlog, a daily blog that covers news and issues in neuroscience, but also general science.
Vaccine hesitancy, also known as anti-vaccination or anti-vax, is a reluctance or refusal to be vaccinated or to have one's children vaccinated against contagious diseases despite the availability of vaccination services. It is identified by the World Health Organization as one of the top ten global health threats of 2019. The term encompasses outright refusal to vaccinate, delaying vaccines.
Hi, my daughter (17) is writing an essay on the uptake of childhood vaccinations, but other than as a response to the now-disproved link of MMR to Autism, she can't find much about why many people oppose vaccination in children. Can anyone point me (and her) in the right direction to find some more info, or can anyone give me their thoughts?
The World Health Organization (WHO) has listed vaccine hesitancy—the delay in acceptance or refusal of vaccines despite their availability—as one of its top 10 health threats facing the world.
The Psychological Roots of Anti-Vaccination Attitudes: A 24-Nation Investigation Matthew J. Hornsey, Emily A. Harris, and Kelly S. Fielding University of Queensland.
Antivaccers back then promoted their movement through pamphlets, speeches, and books; now the movement influences social media and every other type of media. The core beliefs of anti-vaccine movement is that “vaccines are profit centers for greedy doctors and big Pharma, and everybody is keeping the dangers (of vaccines) quiet” (Kluger 42).
Unfortunately, in combination with the so-called “backfire effect” that suggests that correcting misinformation can sometimes have the opposite effect, the retractions of Wakefield’s papers.
There’s something very scary happening in our world today. Well, there’s many scary things, but what I’m going to talk about is that vaccination rates are dipping. In Canada in the spring of 2013 our immunisation rate was 84%, which is below the goal of 95% to protect our communities from vaccine-preventable deadly diseases. In Alberta where I live, our goal is even higher as we aim for.
At this point, it's common knowledge that vaccines haven't been linked with autism. Doctors have checked and checked again, but nothing credible has ever come up. Still, there are people who identify as 'anti-vaxxers' and decline to vaccinate their children. Now, in a packed Reddit thread, those peoples' children have a few things to say about it.
