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Why public opinion matters

Post author By Mila McEwen
Post date July 3, 2020

Certain images are imprinted into our memory: tear gas and dogs unleashed on children during the 1965 Selma march or the thousands visiting the glass topped casket that revealed the battered and lynched body of Emmet Till. Yet still this did not prepare the world for the image of a police officer kneeling on the […]

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How to scientifically tell someone they are wrong

Post author By Walter Kemp Bruce
Post date October 3, 2018
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How should scientists approach the twenty-year-old misconception that there is a correlation between autism and vaccines? Despite vaccination rates remaining high, the contention persists on public forums like Twitter (a “flourishing” anti-vaccine sentiment was found by a recent CU Boulder study on the social media site) and was even discussed on the Republican Party debate […]

Tags autism, measles, MMR vaccine, public opinion, vaccines