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by RubberSoul
2681 days ago
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This story reminds me of this recent NPR interview with an anthropologist on vaccine hesitancy [0]. The upshot of the research is that "skepticism of vaccines [is] 'socially cultivated.'" Many of the people refusing vaccines are intelligent and well-educated, but they end up trusting bad information for a variety of reasons. Hopefully this parent and others in his community are now receiving better information. It's not mentioned below, but when I heard this interview it was longer and made the point that vaccine hesitant parents need to be approached with respect; the more confrontational the approach, the more defensive people with anti-vaccine views will become. [0]: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/02/13/6944497... |
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