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Study in JAMA links climate skepticism with vaccines: Claims ‘significant proportion of US is impervious to scientific facts’

August 14, 2017

Communicating About Vaccines in a Fact-Resistant World

JAMA Pediatr. Published online August 14, 2017. doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2017.2219

 

The continued success of vaccines, one of the most effective public health interventions, depends on high rates of acceptance. Vaccine refusal in the United States has increased since the late 1990s.1 This trend has coincided with an increase in vaccine safety concerns. Such concerns result from easy recall of adverse events, misinformation, and human tendency to poorly judge probabilities. When a significant proportion of the US population is impervious to scientific facts, such as belief in human-induced climate change, it is difficult to communicate vaccine-related information to patients.

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