What did vaccines do
23 May 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, health economics Tags: anti-vaccination movement, The Great Escape, vaccines
Behind on my anti-vaccination movement blogging
17 May 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: anti-vaccination movement, conjecture and refutation, vaccinations, vaccines
Whatever happened to chickenpox?
13 May 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: anti-vaccination movement, chickenpox, vaccines
Americans and scientists agree more on vaccines than on other hot button issues
11 May 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, environmental economics, global warming, health economics Tags: Anti-Science left, anti-vaccination movement, climate alarmism, global warming, vaccinations, vaccines
Americans and scientists agree more on vaccines than on other hot button issues. 53eig.ht/1CWsmPq http://t.co/M7eeDWgQoL—
(@FiveThirtyEight) February 07, 2015
Do vaccines work?
07 May 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: anti-vaccination movement, measles, vaccines
How the Antiscience Left approaches inconvenient evidence
06 May 2015 1 Comment
in environmental economics, global warming, health economics Tags: Anti-Science left, anti-vaccination movement, climate alarmism, conjecture and refutation, GMOs, precautionary principle, Twitter left, University of the Internet
Did vaccines work in India?
05 May 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, health economics Tags: anti-vaccination movement, India, The Great Escape, vaccinations, vaccines
How infectious is measles?
02 May 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: anti-vaccination movement, measles, network economics, vaccines
A Measles patient infects 12-18 other people.
An Ebola patient infects 1-2.5 other people. http://t.co/iQS0c6vxYz—
Amitabh Chandra (@amitabhchandra2) April 24, 2015
Did the polio vaccine work?
30 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: anti-vaccination movement, polio, vaccines
How measles spreads when there are no vaccinations
27 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: anti-vaccination movement, vaccinations, vaccines
The differently shaded squares represent four generations of infection, from Patient Zero (the darkest red square at the top left) to the people he or she infects (the next 17 reddish squares), the people they infect in turn (the next five lines of peach-colored squares), and the people they infect (the rest of the graphic). The dark squares represent the people who die from measles.
Without vaccinations, each measles case will infect 12 to 18 other people on average every 10 to 14 days. You can see how quickly the disease spreads from the first generation (Patient Zero) to 12 to 18 people in the second generation, 144-324 people in the third generation, and 1728-5832 people in the fourth generation. That adds up to more than 6,000 infections, all within 40 days. In a country with substandard healthcare and malnutrition, up to 28 percent of those infected will die.
via The incredible power of the measles vaccine, in 3 graphics – The Washington Post.
Further evidence of the Anti-Science Left
27 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, environmentalism Tags: advocacy bias, Anti-Science left, anti-vaccination movement, expressive voting, motivated reasoning, rational ignorance, rational irrationality
The right of the political spectrum is less likely to accept scientific conclusions if they involve excessive regulation of the economy. The anti-vaccination infestation of left-wing thinking shows that they are not immune to magical thinking and therefore should not be so smug.
Moral panic compared: allergies versus vaccination
26 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, environmental economics, health economics, law and economics Tags: Allergies, Anti-Science left, anti-vaccination movement, cranks, Left-wing hypocrisy, meddlesome preferences, quackery, Quacks
An ode to the anti-vaccination movement
23 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics, transport economics Tags: anti-vaccination movement, seat belts
Herd immunity pie-charted
22 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: anti-vaccination movement, economics of networks, vaccinations, vaccines
Deliriously hot @guardian sim shows why anti-measles jabs help protect your whole community gu.com/p/45f7e/stw http://t.co/H31ZKbXkqg—
Info=Beautiful (@infobeautiful) February 05, 2015
Cognitive biases of the anti-vaccination movement and the Antiscience Left
15 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, environmentalism, health economics Tags: anti-vaccination movement, antiscience left, cognitive biases, cognitive psychology, conjecture and refutation, philosophy of science
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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