Jun 12, 2024 06:58 PM
https://www.acsh.org/news/2024/06/10/how...-you-17878
EXCERPTS: Vaccination remains one of the most effective tools in protecting public health, and maintaining high immunization rates is essential to preventing the resurgence of preventable diseases. However, rampant anti-vaccine disinformation largely driven by politicians, grifters, and “influencers” on television and social media undermines public confidence in vaccination.
[...] A pervasive distortion propagated by vaccine skeptics is the scientifically misguided assertion that vaccines are unnecessary and shouldn’t be mandated. They cite several rationales. ... Anti-vaxxers have even fabricated -- that is, invented -- opinions about vaccines, supposedly from respectable medical organizations... (MORE - missing details, no ads)
EXCERPTS: Vaccination remains one of the most effective tools in protecting public health, and maintaining high immunization rates is essential to preventing the resurgence of preventable diseases. However, rampant anti-vaccine disinformation largely driven by politicians, grifters, and “influencers” on television and social media undermines public confidence in vaccination.
[...] A pervasive distortion propagated by vaccine skeptics is the scientifically misguided assertion that vaccines are unnecessary and shouldn’t be mandated. They cite several rationales. ... Anti-vaxxers have even fabricated -- that is, invented -- opinions about vaccines, supposedly from respectable medical organizations... (MORE - missing details, no ads)