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-supporterempathetic 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-tellThe 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.
Topic: 16 years ago, a doctor published a study (Read 15120 times)
