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Dear Anti-Vaxxers,

By Vincent Iannelli, MD / May 17, 2018 May 17, 2018 / alternative vaccine schedules, cognitive bias, confirmation bias, deaths from vaccine-preventable diseases, fear, misinformed consent, Sudden Unexplained Death in Childhood, vaccine deaths, vaccine induced disease, vaccine injury, vaccine injury stories, vaccine myths, Vaccine Preventable Diseases, vaccine scare stories

An open letter to anti-vaxxers.

Are You Too Scared to Vaccinate Your Kids?

By Vincent Iannelli, MD / May 16, 2018 May 16, 2018 / alternative vaccine schedules, anxiety, autism epidemic, autism shot, benefits, cognitive bias, confirmation bias, fear, natural immunity, on the fence, risk perception, risks, vaccine hesitancy, vaccine injury stories, vaccine myths, vaccine scare stories

Are you too scared or anxious to get your child vaccinated?

Grave Reminders of Life Before Vaccines

By Vincent Iannelli, MD / March 18, 2018 March 27, 2018 / benefits, cognitive bias, epiglottitis, Hib, meningitis vaccines, natural immunity, Outbreaks, pest house, polio, polio eradication, polio survivor, pre-vaccine era, regret, smallpox, smallpox vaccine, survivorship bias, Walter Orenstein

Forgetting the pre-vaccine era and the benefits of vaccines makes folks susceptible to anti-vaccine talking points and scares them away from vaccinating and protecting their kids.

Using Pubmed to Do Research About Vaccines

By Vincent Iannelli, MD / December 17, 2017 December 17, 2017 / abstracts, case reports, cognitive bias, confirmation bias, google university, hierarchy of evidence, pay-to-publish journals, PubMed, research, retracted, vaccine research

PubMed is a giant index of journal articles, but simply being in PubMed doesn’t mean that an article or study is reliable or of high quality, whether it is about vaccines, a vaccine-preventable disease, or any other medical topic.

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