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Problem, how damaging is it to trust in scientists and health workers thats brought on by this misinformation online? vaccine misinformation is not new. weve had it since the beginning of vaccines but what we have now is the democratisation in the worst sense of that word of vaccine misinformation. its like having a stretch of highway where you are having a repeated car crashes, its not the fault of the authorities for having the highway thats causing the crashes but at some point, the authoriti...

Well, earlier i spoke to dr ashwin vasan whos an epidemiologist and president & ceo of mental health charity fountain house. i asked him how damaging he thought these online disinformation campaigns were. vaccine misinformation is not new. weve had it since the beginning of vaccines but what we have now is the democratisation in the worst sense of that word of vaccine misinformation. its like having a stretch of highway where you are having repeated car crashes, its not the fault of the authorit...