This is how herd immunity works
11 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: anti-vaccination movement, herd immunity, The Great Escape, vaccinations
The Jenny McCarthy Body Count Video
11 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
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Timelines of vaccine preventable illnesses
09 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
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Richard Epstein, classical liberalism and compulsory vaccinations
07 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Richard Epstein Tags: anti-vaccination movement, compulsory vaccinations, public health, vaccinations
Vaccines work, get over it
07 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, health economics Tags: anti-vaccination movement, conjecture and refutation, Quacks, vaccines
Vaccines Work. Here Are the Facts – and a Comic.
(Medium bit.ly/1x3fapV) http://t.co/Ed6FufQLY9—
Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) January 06, 2015
The odds that a child will…
07 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in health and safety, health economics, occupational choice Tags: anti-vaccination movement
In 1958, there were more than 750,000 cases of measles
07 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
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Does global warming denial and the anti-vaccination movement march to the same anti-science step?
03 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in climate change, economics of information, economics of media and culture, environmental economics, global warming, health economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: anti-vaccination movement, climate alarmists, expressive politics, expressive voting, psychology of persuasion
In the last post, I presented evidence, collected as part of the CCP Vaccine Risk Perception study, that showed that the trope has no meaningful connection to fact.
Those who accept and reject human evolution, those who believe in and those who are skeptical about climate change, all overwhelmingly agree that vaccine risks are low and vaccine benefits high.
The idea that either climate change skepticism or disbelief in evolution denotes hostility to science or lack of comprehension of science is false, too. That’s something that a large number of social science studies show. The CCP Vaccine Risk study doesn’t add anything to that body of evidence.
Vaccination rates are a serious issue. Do those that are trying to lift vaccination rates think they going to get anywhere by calling people stupid, corrupt and in the pay of a multinational.
Of course not. This matter is serious. It’s a real public health risk.
People are persuaded to vaccinate through gentle messages providing facts in a way they can understand that also respects their knowledge, their intellect, and their concerns for the safety of the children. You don’t win people over by insulting them.
The climate alarmists are so insulting because they have no interest in persuading the people that are actually talking to. They are reaching out to members on the audience were are on the margin, and appealing to their political base, including the fundraising base by showing how staunch they are in slaying the Dragon.
Street by street confirmed measles cases in Auckland, New Zealand 2014
03 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: anti-vaccination movement, measles
video link is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAluTnnLyF4
Data is for the Auckland health board district.
Some demographics of the anti-vaccination movement
03 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics, politics - USA Tags: anti-vaccination movement, The Great Escape, vaccinations, vaccines
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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