JAMA vaccines study: ‘significant proportion of US impervious to scientific facts’
Study in JAMA links climate skepticism with vaccines: Claims ‘significant proportion of US is impervious to scientific facts’, says Climate Depot’s Marc Morano. Study infers skeptics are uneducated and ignorant.
Titled ‘Communicating About Vaccines in a Fact-Resistant World’ the authors, Saad B. Omer; Avnika B. Amin and Rupali J. Limaye take a pot shot at the intelligence and skepticism of the American public to blame them for an anti-science approach to government-sponsored vaccination programs. A link is inferred that skeptics of man-made global warming theory are likewise part of the ‘anti-science’ ilk (more specifically, biased government pseudo science).
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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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