Unreliable Vaccine Information and the Erosion of Science

2025/04/09 by Jeremy W. Jacobs, Garrett S. Booth · 1 voice · 6 citations
Health Professions · Social Sciences · #Climate Change Communication and Perception #Public Health Policies and Education #Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy

paper · doi:10.1001/jama.2025.5723

openalex publication_date 2025/04/09 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

This Viewpoint explores how appointing vaccine skeptics to positions of power in the US government contributes to the spread of unreliable information, subverts public confidence in vaccines, and undermines the integrity of public health.

Citations

• Vaccines are not associated with autism: An evidence-based meta-analysis of case-control and cohort studies
• Contribution of vaccination to improved survival and health: modelling 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization
• Decline in Vaccination Coverage by Age 24 Months and Vaccination Inequities Among Children Born in 2020 and 2021 — National Immunization Survey-Child, United States, 2021–2023

Discussions

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