Highlighted by Lincoln Hochberg
From An Economist’s Data-Backed Case for Vaccines by Emily Oster
If you look at anti-vaccination websites (please don’t), many of them seem evidence-based; they cite papers and studies to support their position. On the other side, organizations like the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) assure people that vaccination is safe. But the latter groups rarely confront the anti-vaccination literature head-on. There is little effort to explain why the papers cited on anti-vaccination websites are problematic. It can end up seeming as though the anti-vaccination side is serious and evidence-based, and the pro-vaccine side is just dismissively insisting that you trust them because they are experts.