ArticleCanada communicable disease report = Releve des maladies transmissibles au Canada2020
Fake news and science denier attacks on vaccines. What can you do?
Article in Canada communicable disease report = Releve des maladies transmissibles au Canada, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
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- Navigating Vaccine Misinformation: Assessing Newly Licensed Physicians' Ability to Distinguish Facts from Fake News.Epidemiologia (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Unmasking vaccine hesitancy and refusal: a deep dive into Anti-vaxxer perspectives on COVID-19 in Spain.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Public Engagement with Biotechnology Inside and Outside the Classroom: Community-Focused Approaches.GEN biotechnology · 2022Article
- The Prevalence and Impact of Fake News on COVID-19 Vaccination in Taiwan: Retrospective Study of Digital Media.Journal of medical Internet research · 2022Article
- [Public Resistance to Vaccination During Epidemics: The Example of COVID-19Resistência da população à vacinação em tempos de epidemias: sobre a COVID-19].Revista panamericana de salud publica = Pan American journal of public health · 2022Article
- COVID-19 Vaccination and the Challenge of Infodemic and Disinformation.Journal of Korean medical science · 2021Article
- COVID-19 Vaccine Intent Among Health Care Professionals of Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Barbados.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2021Article
- Anxiety and depression among people living in quarantine centers during COVID-19 pandemic: A mixed method study from western Nepal.PloS one · 2021Observational
- How to Respond to Misinformation From the Anti-Vaccine Movement.Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financingArticle
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Abstract
Misinformation and disinformation ("fake news") about vaccines are contagious-travelling faster and farther than truth. The consequences are serious; leading to negative impacts on health decisions, including vaccine acceptance, and on trust in immunization advice from public health and/or healthcare professional. This article provides a brief overview of evidence-based strategies to address vaccine deniers in public, in clinical practice and in social situations. As well, a strategy to help differentiate between vaccine deniers and simple vaccine refusers in a practice or clinic is provided. Five tactics are widely used by vaccine deniers: conspiracy; fake experts; selectivity; impossible expectations; and misrepresentation and false logic. Recognizing and understanding these tactics can help protect against misinformation and science denialism propaganda. Highlighting the strong medical science consensus on the safety and effectiveness of vaccines also helps. Carefully and wisely choosing what to say and speaking up-whether you are at a dinner party, out with friends or in your medical office or clinic-is crucial. Not speaking up implies you agree with the misinformation. Having healthcare providers recognize and address misinformation using evidence-based strategies is of growing importance as the arrival of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines is expected to further ramp up the vaccine misinformation and disinformation rhetoric. Healthcare providers must prepare themselves and act now to combat the vaccine misinformation tsunami.
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