Come On Vaccine! Vaccine Hesitancy & You

EPISODE 26 | Come On Vaccine! Vaccine Hesitancy & You

Science marches on, eradicating debilitating diseases (among other things). However, there have always been some who are skeptical, or even downright hostile, to this. There are lots of reasons: maybe God wants your kid to get sick, the ingredients used are harmful and/or weird, or they have terrible side effects, like giving children autism; turning them into half-man, half-cow hybrids or making making males become homosexuals. Or maybe there are teeny, tiny mind control devices in them.

Or maybe all of these things are true. When you decide that science doesn't matter, and there's no such things as a fact, it's sort of a free for all of superstition and suspicion.

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SECTIONS

1. 02:00 - A quick overview of the situation
2. 04:03 - Don't Have a Cow! The smallpox vaccine starts it all
3. 08:12 - The Hospital of Dr. Moreau - Benjamin Moseley & others 
4. 11:04 - DPT (diphtheria, pertussis [whooping cough] & tetanus) - Vaccine Roulette & Dravet Syndrome
5. 15:01 - How to Make a Vaccine
6. 18:39 - The 'Vid - How we got vaccines so fast
7. 22:16 - MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella [German measles]) - (Former Dr.) Andrew Wakefield & the seeds of the modern anti-vax movement
8. 25:23 - Pointing fingers at anti-vax celebrities - a not-quite-complete list
9. 28:55 - Tweedle-dee's Logic - Some reasons for vaccine hesitancy
10. 29:51 - Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble - Ingredients - Icky, weird, deadly stuff
11. 33:19 - Heard of Herd Immunity? - A little knowledge is a dangerous thing
12. 36:11 - Mother Nature Knows Best - Post-modern snake oil
13. 37:12 - Big Pharma Wants You - It's all about the Benjamins
14. 38:39 - Cloud-Cuckoo Land - The "out there" conspiracy theories & truly spotty logic
15. 40:47 - Repercussions - Vaccine hesitancy affects us all
16. 45:13 - Cutting Through the Noise - 18 steps for talking to the vaccine hesitant 

• Music by Fanette Ronjat

More on this topic:

• Vaccine Hesitancy: Causes, Consequences, and a Call to Action in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine
• The golden age of anti-vaccine conspiracies in GERMS
• Anti-Vaccine and COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories: A Perfect Storm in Psychology Today
• The 200-Year History of the Anti-Vaxxer Movement: From 'Cowpox Face' to Autism Claims in Newsweek
• What’s in a Name? Or, Will Vaccination Turn Your Children into Cows? on the History of Vaccines website
• DPT: Vaccine Roulette - 1982 NBC documentary
• A Shot in the Dark by H. Coulter
• Dravet Syndrome entry of Vaxopedia
• Coronavirus: Operation Warp Speed US Dept. of Defense website
• Vaccines: The Basics on the CDC website
• Making Vaccines: How Are Vaccines Made? on the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia website
• How Are Vaccines Made and Why Do They Work? on PKID website
• What Is the Difference Between Immunization and Vaccination? on Very Well Health
• The online anti-vaccine movement in the age of COVID-19 in The Lancet
• The MMR vaccine and autism: Sensation, refutation, retraction, and fraud in The Indian Journal of Psychiatry
• Book review in Nature for The Doctor Who Fooled the World by Brian Deer
• Callous Disregard: Autism and Vaccines--The Truth Behind a Tragedy, Andrew Wakefield's discredited book
• New Zealand Immunisation Advisory Centre Information for Parents about the film "Vaxxed: From Cover-up to catastrophe
• We watched the movie ‘Vaxxed’ so you don’t have to article on StatNews
• 7 things about vaccines and autism that the movie ‘Vaxxed’ won’t tell you in The Washington Post
• Trailer for "The Pathological Optimist" 2017 documentary
• The Anti-vaccination Movement: A Regression in Modern Medicine in Cureus
• Anti-Vaccine Celebrities Have Inordinate Amount of Influence on the Pharmacy Times
• New World Order episodes of Conspiracy Clearinghouse on YouTube
• Robert F. Kennedy's Children's Health Defense website
• Natural herd immunity should not be used as a means of pandemic control on The BMJ Opinion website
• The false promise of herd immunity for COVID-19 in Nature
• COVID-19 anti-vaxxers use the same arguments from 135 years ago on The Conversation
• Seven ways to talk to anti-vaxxers (that might actually change their minds) on HealthyDebate.ca
• Best practice guidance: How to respond to vocal vaccine deniers in public paper by the World Health Organization
• Inside the Mind of an Anti-vaxxer in The Atlantic
• Book announcement for Anti-vaxxers - How to Challenge a Misinformed Movement by Johnathan M. Berman

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