February 17, 2021

Come On Vaccine! Vaccine Hesitancy & You

52 minutes

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

02:00 - A quick overview of the situation

04:03 - Don't Have a Cow! The smallpox vaccine starts it all

08:12 - The Hospital of Dr. Moreau - Benjamin Moseley & others

11:04 - DPT (diphtheria, pertussis [whooping cough] & tetanus) - Vaccine Roulette & Dravet Syndrome

15:01 - How to Make a Vaccine

18:39 - The 'Vid - How we got vaccines so fast

22:16 - MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella [German measles]) - (Former Dr.) Andrew Wakefield & the seeds of the modern anti-vax movement

25:23 - Pointing fingers at anti-vax celebrities - a not-quite-complete list

28:55 - Tweedle-dee's Logic - Some reasons for vaccine hesitancy

29:51 - Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble - Ingredients - Icky, weird, deadly stuff

33:19 - Heard of Herd Immunity? - A little knowledge is a dangerous thing

36:11 - Mother Nature Knows Best - Post-modern snake oil

37:12 - Big Pharma Wants You - It's all about the Benjamins

38:39 - Cloud-Cuckoo Land - The "out there" conspiracy theories & truly spotty logic

40:47 - Repercussions - Vaccine hesitancy affects us all

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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