Resolving Conflicting Research Results: Vaccine Education is Tricky

August 26, 2015, at 1:44 pm

Note: This post also appears on Insight, the official blog of the Skeptic Society. A few months ago I wrote about the psychology of vaccine denial. In the post I discussed two publications, one of which (

The Psychology of Vaccine Denial and The New Anti-Intellectualism

March 13, 2015, at 1:02 pm

I don’t know if this could really be called “new”, but it’s a form of anti-intellectualism that usually goes unnoticed. I find it particularly frustrating because I so often see it often among people who claim to respect knowledge, education, and expertise. It is an ironic lack of respect for that same knowledge, education, and […]

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