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Is It Rational to Be Anti-Vaccine?

By Vincent Iannelli, MD / January 5, 2020 January 5, 2020 / anti-vaccine movement, cognitive bias, debate, decision, fallacy, hiding in the herd, irrational, misinformation, natural immunity, propaganda, rational, regret, risk perception, scared, vaccine choice, vaccine hesitancy, vaccine injury stories

Skipping or delaying vaccines, leaving your child at risk to get a vaccine-preventable disease and putting others at risk, is not a rational decision.

Who Dies with Measles?

By Vincent Iannelli, MD / November 3, 2018 November 3, 2018 / answers, benefits, chiropractors, decision, measles, measles deaths, MMR, natural immunity, propaganda, risk perception, risks, rite of passage, safety, SSPE, stories, unvaccinated, vaccine choice, Vaccine Preventable Diseases

Why do some folks think that measles is a benign disease? Maybe because they ignore all of the people who die with measles.

Are Anti-Vaccine Folks Smarter Than the Rest of Us?

By Vincent Iannelli, MD / June 4, 2018 June 4, 2018 / bandwagoning, clusters, cognitive bias, confirmation bias, decision, Dunning-Kruger effect, education, hiding in the herd, research, unvaccinated, vaccine research

Are folks who skip or delay vaccines more educated and smarter than everyone else who vaccinates their kids?

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