The Science of Anti-Vaccination

Fewer children in the United States are getting vaccinated. That’s bad news for those kids, and also for public health in general. Often, the response is to argue and debate and get angry at people who are we see as making terrible, irrational decisions. Instead of doing that, let’s use science to understand why this is happening in the first place. Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow Or help support us by subscribing to our page on Subbable: https://subbable.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow Sources: Meta-Analysis of the Safety of Vaccines: http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/134/2/325 The Internet and the Psychology of Vaccination Decisions: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=19849 Naturalness Bias: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18319507 Omission Bias and Vaccines: http://mdm.sagepub.com/content/14/2/118 Difficulty in changing minds once they’re made: http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2014/02/25/peds.2013-2365 Onset Patterns of Autism: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2857525/ Bad is Stronger than Good - Negativity Bias: http://assets.csom.umn.edu/assets/71516.pdf Parental Vaccine Decision Making: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24011751 Read more about Risk Perception: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_perception And Explanatory Style: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explanatory_style http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/autism/detail_autism.htm