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The Real-Life Conversion Of A Former Anti-Vaxxer
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Archived 6 years ago from California Healthline
The Real-Life Conversion Of A Former Anti-Vaxxer

About Spotlight Spotlight illuminates the newsmakers and behind-the-scenes players who shape health care in California. Have a story suggestion? Let us know. Use Our Content This story can be republished for free (details). Amid the contentious dispute over immunization requirements for children, …

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Navigating the antivax movement
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Archived 6 years ago from Contemporary Pediatrics
Navigating the antivax movement

Contemporary Pediatrics asked pediatric infectious diseases experts how community pediatricians can talk with families who are firmly against vaccinating their children or hesitant to do so. Here’s what they said. Pediatricians are wrestling with how they should deal with a growing antivaccination …

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Meet the New York couple donating millions to the anti-vax movement
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Archived 6 years ago from The Washington Post
Meet the New York couple donating millions to the anti-vax movement

By Lena H. Sun and Amy Brittain, Yana Paskova For The Washington Post “They should be allowed to have the measles if they want the measles,” Del Bigtree told reporters outside an anti-vaccine forum in Brooklyn earlier this month geared to the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community. A wealthy Manhattan …

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Anti vax movement: Russian trolls fueled anti-vaccination debate in U.S. by spreading misinformation on Twitter, study finds
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Archived 6 years ago from CBS News
Anti vax movement: Russian trolls fueled anti-vaccination debate in U.S. by spreading misinformation on Twitter, study finds

Russian Twitter trolls have attempted to fuel the anti-vaccination debate in the U.S., posting about the issue far more than the average Twitter user last year, a study out of George Washington University has found. The “sophisticated” bots shared opinions from both sides of the anti-vaxxer debate, …

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How to Talk to an Anti-vax Relative
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Archived 6 years ago from The Atlantic
How to Talk to an Anti-vax Relative

Colleen Brown of Cleveland, Ohio, has been known to post on Facebook now and again about the dangers of not vaccinating kids—local news stories about schools closing because a student has been exposed to the measles, she says, that kind of thing. A few years back, she remembers, she shared an …

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Online anti-vax efforts prove daunting public health challenge
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Archived 6 years ago from CIDRAP
Online anti-vax efforts prove daunting public health challenge

Earlier this week New York City Health Commissioner Oxiris Barbot, MD, blamed a small group of anti-vaccine advocates for their role in an ongoing measles outbreak among the city’s Orthodox Jewish population. “This outbreak is being fueled by a small group of anti-vaxxers in these neighborhoods. …

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GoFundMe Removes Anti-Vax Campaigns From its Platform | The Bay
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Archived 4 years ago from Black Information Network
GoFundMe Removes Anti-Vax Campaigns From its Platform | The Bay

The online fundraising platform GoFundMe said Friday they were banning any campaigns created on their website that promoted “misinformation” about vaccines. “Campaigns raising money to promote misinformation about vaccines violate GoFundMe’s terms of service and will be removed from the platform,” …

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Facts alone don’t sway anti-vaxxers. So what does?
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Archived 6 years ago from USA TODAY
Facts alone don’t sway anti-vaxxers. So what does?

For Christine Vigeant, being an anti-vaxxer was bigger than just the vaccine decision. And changing her mind was bigger than just one conversation. When Vigeant was pregnant with her daughter, she had an idea of the kind of mother she wanted to be. Drawn to an alternative, attachment parenting …

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Facebook outlines plans to curb anti-vax conspiracy theories
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Archived 6 years ago from The Verge
Facebook outlines plans to curb anti-vax conspiracy theories

Under fire for serving up anti-vaccine propaganda, Facebook announced today that it will remove groups and pages that share anti-vaccine misinformation from its recommendations. The company also pledged that it will stop allowing advertisers to target people who Facebook’s advertising algorithm …

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Fact or Fiction: Debunking the Latest Anti-Vax Myths
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Archived 6 years ago from Healthline
Fact or Fiction: Debunking the Latest Anti-Vax Myths

Here’s what to know about current vaccine myths. Share on PinterestMeasles outbreaks have affected multiple U.S. communities in recent years. Getty images With more than 100 confirmed cases of measles in the United States already this year, vaccines are once again squarely at the center of a …

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