Cognitive Bias and Vaccine Education
As you get educated about vaccines, don’t let any of these cognitive biases get in your way.
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October 2016
Lewis Carroll’s Adventures in Anti-VaccineLand
Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) is best known for writing Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. What do those books have to do with vaccines? Nothing. Lewis Carroll did get into a debate with someone that was pushing anti-vaccine misinformation about the smallpox vaccine. In 1877, the Eastbourne Chronicle published a letter by
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Vaccine Hesitant Parents
Every parent who skips or delays a vaccine isn’t so anti-vaccine that they believe every anti-vaccine myth and conspiracy theory on the Internet. Some are simply scared or worried about what they have read or by what friends or family members have told them. One study by Gust et al. has actually identified up to
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About Those Graphs That Show Vaccines Don’t Work
Graphs suggesting vaccines don’t work and didn’t save us from diseases mislead. Despite claims, improvements in healthcare and vaccines reduced deaths from diseases like measles, pertussis, diphtheria, and tetanus. The anti-vaccine movement misuses graphs to spread misinformation and fear. Vaccines have scientifically proven to save lives.
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