18/fin I’ll have a blog post at AHCJ coming soon on this bc I’m so frustrated w vaccine hot takes from journalists who lack experience & knowledge abt vaccine reporting. The stakes are high for irresponsible, ignorant reporting: harming public health.https://healthjournalism.org/blog/2019/03/writing-about-vaccine-hesitancy-theres-a-study-for-that/ …
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Did you write this suggesting scientists are being dishonest and empowering charlatans or not?pic.twitter.com/4TlQLp7AAi
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Thank you for including the screenshot so it's clear exactly what I wrote. When people feel like they are not getting the full message from the authorities, of course, charlatans are empowered. This is a genuinely mundane point in study of medical mistrust and public health.
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On transmission risks, there are four or five medical experts quoted in the article, and I have nothing to add to that, nor do I need to. The issue raised in the article about messaging is (again, very much my own core field) in my view, correct, and also not that hard to fix.
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Yes one of them makes a provably false statement. You’re not responsible for that, but it does seem to me disseminating scientific misinformation in the New York Times could be harmful.
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@simondolan also has a lot of followers and articles does not make him an expert anymore than it does you. You have confused
discussions with expertise. Unfortunately because of your lack of knowledge you do not even understand why you wrong and instead of engaging with actual -
Instead of engaging with actual experts with respect you have allowed your ego to drive.
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