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Problem, how damaging is it to trust in scientists and health workers that's brought on by this misinformation online? vaccine misinformation is not new. we've 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. it's like having a stretch of highway where you are having a repeated car crashes, it's not the fault of the authorities for having the highway that's causing the crashes but at some point, the authorities need to step in and ask the question, is there something we can do to regulate the flow of t...

Well, earlier i spoke to dr ashwin vasan who's 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. we've 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. it's like having a stretch of highway where you are having repeated car crashes, it's not the fault of the authorities for having the highway that's causing the crashes but at some point, the authorities need to...