Come On Vaccine! Vaccine Hesitancy & You

Science marches on, eradicating debilitating diseases (among other things). However, there have always been some who are skeptical, or even downright hostile, to this. There are lots of reasons: maybe God wants your kid to get sick, the ingredients used are harmful and/or weird, or they have terrible side effects, like giving children autism; turning them into half-man, half-cow hybrids or making making males become homosexuals. Or maybe there are teeny, tiny mind control devices in them.Show more

Or maybe all of these things are true. When you decide that science doesn't matter, and there's no such things as a fact, it's sort of a free for all of superstition and suspicion.

SECTIONS

02:00 - A quick overview of the situation
04:03 - Don't Have a Cow! The smallpox vaccine starts it all
08:12 - The Hospital of Dr. Moreau - Benjamin Moseley & others
11:04 - DPT (diphtheria, pertussis [whooping cough] & tetanus) - Vaccine Roulette & Dravet Syndrome
15:01 - How to Make a Vaccine
18:39 - The 'Vid - How we got vaccines so fast
22:16 - MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella [German measles]) - (Former Dr.) Andrew Wakefield & the seeds of the modern anti-vax movement
25:23 - Pointing fingers at anti-vax celebrities - a not-quite-complete list
28:55 - Tweedle-dee's Logic - Some reasons for vaccine hesitancy
29:51 - Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble - Ingredients - Icky, weird, deadly stuff
33:19 - Heard of Herd Immunity? - A little knowledge is a dangerous thing
36:11 - Mother Nature Knows Best - Post-modern snake oil
37:12 - Big Pharma Wants You - It's all about the Benjamins
38:39 - Cloud-Cuckoo Land - The "out there" conspiracy theories & truly spotty logic
40:47 - Repercussions - Vaccine hesitancy affects us all
45:13 - Cutting Through the Noise - 18 steps for talking to the vaccine hesitant