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The question, what do you look like in a mate? kids not getting polio. someone who doesnt endanger public health by spreading dangerous pseudoscience. its easy to pick out kevin trudeau or jenny mccarthy. this thinking spreads like a disease. a new study has pretty amazing numbers about peoples belief systems. for example, 37% believe the fda is being pushed. 20% believe doctors in the government know vaccinations cause autism but want you to vaccinate your children regardless. joining me now, d...

Stance. the question, what do you look like in a mate? kids not getting polio. someone who doesnt endanger public health by spreading dangerous pseudoscience. its easy to pick out kevin trudeau or jenny mccarthy. this thinking spreads like a disease. a new study has pretty amazing numbers about peoples belief systems. for example, 37% believe the fda is being pushed. 20% believe doctors in the government know vaccinations cause autism but want you to vaccinate your children regardless. joining m...

>> jenny mccarthys well-known chants. the question, what do you look like in a mate? kids not getting polio. someone who doesnt endanger public health by spreading dangerous pseudoscience. its easy to pick out kevin trudeau or jenny mccarthy. this thinking spreads like a disease. a new study has pretty amazing numbers about peoples belief systems. for example, 37% believe the fda is being pushed. 20% believe docket erst in the government know vaccinations cause autism but want you to vaccinate y...

Stop the panic. so you can see a slew of misinformation exploding across the internet. you can also see it in the media. its morally objectionable, people say theres two sides. the vaccine opposition and the pro-vaccine medical science community and the rest of the planet earth. this isnt a two-sided issue. >> part of that, seth, as a journalist, you read about this in the book, the way the press is not equipped well to say there arent two sides of an issue. >> especially i think you see that in...

>> theres two ways that vaccines protect us. one is they give each one of us some protection. although no vaccine is 100%. if i get vaccinated and you get vaccinated, its hard for the virus to get a foothold. thats herd immunity. if we can get vaccination rates above 94%, 95%, 98% for the flu, the measles, mumps or whooping cough, we can get much better protection. again, i come back to this point. i think people are thinking, well, i dont have to get vaccinated, everybody else is. well, everybo...

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Equally, and as seth pointed out, once you cry fire in that theater, its really hard to stop the panic. so you can see a slew of misinformation exploding across the internet. you can also see it in the media. its morally objectionable, people say theres two sides. the vaccine opposition and the pro-vaccine medical science community and the rest of the planet earth. this isnt a two-sided issue. >> part of that, seth, as a journalist, you read about this in the book, the way the press is not equip...

Theater, its really hard to stop the panic. so you can see a slew of misinformation exploding across the internet. you can also see it in the media. its morally objectionable, people say theres two sides. the vaccine opposition and the pro-vaccine medical science community and the rest of the planet earth. this isnt a two-sided issue. >> part of that, seth, as a journalist, you read about this in the book, the way the press is not equipped well to say there arent two sides of an issue. >> especi...

Has been roundly, roundly disproved time and time again. its an unfortunate and dangerous step that abc is making. >> this m.i.t. producer wrote "the panic virus." >> i think what abc has done here is further legitimatized her views, and those are views that have been shown not only to have absolutely no founding in science, but also to be potentially really dangerous. >> weve reached out to abc for comment but we have not heard back. one thing for certain, mccarthy is a force to be reckoned wit...

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