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The book addresses misinformation related to vaccination, and asks how vaccine rumors start and why they do not go away. [1] [4] Looking chiefly at high-income countries, the book examines social, political, psychological and cultural factors that make up the various mind-sets to vaccination. [2]
Vaccine developers profiled in the book include Jonas Salk (p. 188) and Maurice Hilleman (p. 238). Allen, later in the book, describes the controversy over vaccines and autism and the founding of SafeMinds, writing, "The vaccines-cause-autism mindset was the product of a set of assumptions that were impossible to completely prove or disprove."
The World Health Organization has classified vaccine related misinformation into five topic areas. These are: threat of disease (vaccine preventable diseases are harmless), trust (questioning the trustworthiness of healthcare authorities who administer vaccines), alternative methods (such as alternative medicine to replace vaccination), effectiveness (vaccines do not work) and safety (vaccines ...
Its associate editors are Russell Blaylock, a former neurosurgeon who has baselessly claimed that wearing face masks helps SARS-CoV-2 enter the brain, [7] and anti-vaccine activists Stephanie Seneff and Brian Hooker. [2] [4] Hooker and associate editor Mary Holland are also members of the anti-vaccine group Children's Health Defense. [2]
The combined vaccine's two injections results in less pain and distress to the child than the six injections required by separate vaccines, and the extra clinic visits required by separate vaccinations increases the likelihood of some being delayed or missed altogether; [29] [30] vaccination uptake significantly increased in the UK when MMR was ...
In the early 1980s, the organization joined with the American Academy of Pediatrics to draft the original legislation for the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, [18] [19] which created a federal vaccine injury compensation program, mandated doctors to give parents vaccine benefit and risk information, and required the recording and ...
Human challenge studies have ethical considerations because participants are often at risk of serious adverse effects, including death. There are many examples of trials that were problematic or abusive, such as trials on captives under the Nazi regime in Germany or trials with questionable consent procedures in Guatemala by U.S. doctor John Charles Cutler, who also conducted the Tuskegee ...
Stephanie Seneff (born April 20, 1948) [1]: 249 is an American computer scientist and anti-vaccine activist. [2] [3] She is a senior research scientist at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).