Whack-a-Mole
Rivka Galchen: Anti-Vax Sentiments, 27 January 2022
Stuck: How Vaccine Rumours Start – and Why They Don’t Go Away
by Heidi Larson.
Oxford, 157 pp., £18.99, September 2020,978 0 19 007724 2 Show More
by Heidi Larson.
Oxford, 157 pp., £18.99, September 2020,
Anti-Vaxxers: How to Challenge a Misinformed Movement
by Jonathan Berman.
MIT, 277 pp., £25, September 2020,978 0 262 53932 6 Show More
by Jonathan Berman.
MIT, 277 pp., £25, September 2020,
“... her introduction to Stuck: How Vaccine Rumours Start – and Why They Don’t Go Away, Heidi Larson describes her time as Unicef’s strategy and communications director for new vaccines, which overlapped with the 2003-4 boycott of the organisation’s polio programme in northern Nigeria. Rumours had spread that the vaccines caused sterility ... ”