16 years ago, a doctor published a study

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Tweeted by @drJoshS

For the best science on vaccines, you can't beat @theIOM goo.gl/lFIVug

Links to the
Institute of Medicine's Vaccine Safety Reports
sorted by Vaccine

http://www.vaccinesafety.edu/IOM-Reports.htm


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Tweeted by @FiveThirtyEight

"Your Brain Is Primed To Reach False Conclusions"
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/your-brain-is-primed-to-reach-false-conclusions/

Paul Offit likes to tell a story about how his wife, pediatrician Bonnie Offit, was about to give a child a vaccination when the kid was struck by a seizure. Had she given the injection a minute sooner, Paul Offit says, it would surely have appeared as though the vaccine had caused the seizure and probably no study in the world would have convinced the parent otherwise.

Psychologists have a name for the cognitive bias that makes us prone to assigning a causal relationship to two events simply because they happened one after the other: the "illusion of causality."

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Tweeted by @medskep

"Vilifying Parents Who Don't Vaccinate Their Kids Is Counterproductive"
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2015/02/02/vilifying-parents-who-dont-vaccinate-their-kids-is-counterproductive/

The study of the psychology of risk perception has established that our judgments and decisions about any possible danger are the product of both the facts and an emotional assessment of how those facts feel.

But before the vitriol toward vaccine refusers and hesitants grows too shrill, those of us who criticize vaccine refusal and hesitancy as a selfish emotion-driven denial of the evidence and a threat to public health, need to consider how we level that criticism. Dismissing such fears as irrational and vilifying vaccine refusal and hesitancy as ignorant and anti-social may be factually accurate, and understandable as the fear of a resurgent disease spreads, but it is emotionally arrogant and combative, and could make the problem, and public health, worse rather than better.

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Tweeted by @aaronecarroll


"Could we stop asking politicians "gotcha" questions about measles please? And anyone else for that matter?"
http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/could-we-stop-asking-politicians-gotcha-questions-about-measles-please-and-anyone-else-for-that-matter/

what we're really asking politicians about is whether they think it's a good idea to force a parent to do something to their child that might run counter to their beliefs

You have the right to refuse the vaccine. You don't have the right to put other kids at risk during an outbreak.

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Tweeted by @NPRHealth

"Once A Vaccine Skeptic, This Mom Changed Her Mind"
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2015/02/04/383567862/once-a-vaccine-skeptic-this-mom-changed-her-mind?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=health&utm_medium=social&utm_term=nprnews

"I know what it's like to be scared and just want to protect your children, and make the wrong decisions," Russo says.

"Fear, or the perception of risk, is subjective," Ropeik says. "It's a matter of how we feel about the facts we have, not just what the facts say.

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Tweeted by @eliza68

"How one vaccine skeptic became a vaccine supporter"
http://www.vox.com/2015/2/6/7992071/how-one-vaccine-skeptic-became-a-vaccine-supporter

empathetic toward mothers who fear vaccination while persuasively arguing for the morality of vaccines

the question of what is the relationship between the individual and the collective

I think the other way into empathy is to look at how scared people are, and to think about why they're scared, and what's happening culturally to support and encourage that fear.

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Tweeted by @DrLeanaWen

"To Get Parents To Vaccinate Their Kids, Don't Ask. Just Tell"
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2015/02/06/384322665/to-get-parents-to-vaccinate-their-kids-dont-ask-just-tell

The study's surprising results: When doctors assumed parents would be OK with vaccines, they were. More than 70 percent had their child vaccinated.

On the other hand, when physicians were more flexible and allowed for discussion, most of the parents — 83 percent — decided against vaccination.

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Tweeted by @Skepticscalpel

"Kearny mom speaks out about measles"
http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2015/02/26/kearny-mom-speaks-measles/24041541/

Yslas-Roach says she "feels horrible" that his daughter was exposed to the measles, adding, "it completely broke my heart. We didn't do this intentionally." If Christian had been tested Jan. 11, Yslas-Roach says, the results would have been back in time to prevent the exposure to Maggie and others. "Our family has gone through hell, dealing with the commentary on social media and from the regular media over the fact that people think we were running around exposing people."

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Tweeted by @Clippo

I'm offended. Are you? "Cartoon Compares School Allergy Accommodations to Anti-Vax" shar.es/1oS3lx #foodallergy

http://www.yummymummyclub.ca/blogs/alexandria-durrell-irritated-by-allergies/20150213/offensive-cartoon-compares-food-bans-to-0


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Tweeted by @IgECPD


"Toddler dies as measles outbreak hits German capital"
http://news.yahoo.com/toddler-dies-measles-germany-says-health-official-002917361.html

The 18-month-old boy died on February 18 -- the first known fatality among more than 570 recorded measles cases since October in the German capital -- a Berlin health department official told AFP.

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"Measles kills first patient in 12 years"
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/07/02/measles-death-washington-state/29624385/

The USA has suffered its first measles death in 12 years, according to Washington state health officials.

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Tweeted by @AliceDreger

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/boy-dies-diphtheria-spain-parents-rejected-vaccine-32069410


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Tweeted by @sethmnookin

"First Measles Death in US Since 2003 Highlights the Unknown Vulnerables"
http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2015/07/02/measles-death-us/

Those unknown vulnerables represent a lot of people: cancer patients undergoing treatment, transplant recipients taking anti-rejection drugs, people living with HIV, anyone with an inborn immune deficiency, anyone getting high doses of steroids—and the 4 million children in the United States who at any point are less than 12 months old, the recommended age for the first dose of measles vaccine.

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"This Mom Is Mad At Jim Carrey For Tweeting A Photo Of Her Son With Autism"
http://www.buzzfeed.com/virginiahughes/jim-carrey-tweeted-this-kids-photo

the boy has a genetic autism syndrome that has nothing to do with vaccines, his mom told BuzzFeed News.

On Tuesday night, actor and comedian Jim Carrey began tweeting a string of messages expressing his dismay at California's new law that eliminates vaccine exemptions for personal or religious reasons.

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Tweeted by @DrJenGunter


"Andrew Wakefield is apparently a legimate source of vaccine info at University of Toronto"
https://drjengunter.wordpress.com/2015/07/06/andrew-wakefield-is-apparently-a-legimite-source-of-vaccine-info-at-university-of-toronto/

If ignoring the concerns of scientists about the abuse of Quantum Mechanics wasn't bad enough, to conclude that the teachings about vaccines as represented by the curriculum are not "unbalanced" from a "scholarly" perspective simply renders one speechless.

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Tweeted by @DShaywitz


"California, Camelot and Vaccines"
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/07/05/opinion/sunday/frank-bruni-california-camelot-and-vaccines.html?referrer=

I had sided with the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

This is erudition in the age of cyberspace: You surf until you reach the conclusion you're after. You click your way to validation, confusing the presence of a website with the plausibility of an argument.