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Anti-Vaxxers

How to Challenge a Misinformed Movement

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Anti-Vaxxers

By: Jonathan M. Berman
Narrated by: Daniel Henning
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In Anti-Vaxxers, Jonathan Berman explores the phenomenon of the anti-vaccination movement, recounting its history from its 19th-century antecedents to today's activism, examining its claims, and suggesting a strategy for countering them.

After providing background information on vaccines and how they work, Berman describes resistance to Britain's Vaccination Act of 1853, showing that the arguments anticipate those made by today's anti-vaxxers. He discusses the development of new vaccines in the 20th century, including those protecting against polio and MMR (measles, mumps, rubella), and the debunked paper that linked the MMR vaccine to autism; the CDC conspiracy theory promoted in the documentary Vaxxed; recommendations for an alternative vaccination schedule; Kennedy's misinformed campaign against thimerosal; and the much-abused religious exemption to vaccination.

Anti-vaxxers have changed their minds, but rarely because someone has given them a list of facts. Berman argues that anti-vaccination activism is tied closely to how people see themselves as parents and community members. Effective pro-vaccination efforts should emphasize these cultural aspects rather than battling social media posts.

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Explains in detail how the anti-vax movement has evolved and how it is still popular despite having no scientific validity.
The science has been well researched and is a little overwhelming in places, but the detail is necessary to explain this phenomenon.

Well researched.

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the fact that tens of thousands of parents have seen their children have serious adverse reactions to a vaccine is totally pushed a side. Not to mention the data around the safety of Aluminium used as an adjacent - apparently because it has been used for so long it is safe - just like lead paint and cigarettes.
so much information in this book just labels Anti Vaxxers as ignorant but the only people I know who are strongly pro vaccine have never done any research of there own - which is 95% of people you talk to.
I believe vaccines have played a roll in stopping certain infectious diseases- but at what cost??

very poorly researched information

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