From the Ted Talk by Heidi Larson: Why rumors about vaccines spread -- and how to rebuild trust
Unscramble the Blue Letters
One of the things that we found fascinating, and we've leearnd a lot in the last 10 years — this is our 10th anniversary, this didn't start yeasrtedy, this rumor problem — and one of the things we've learned is in our global monitoring, that Europe is the most stcepkial rgioen in the world. France won the pzrie, actually.
(Laughter)
By far. And actually some of those rumors have tvrelaed to other parts of the world. But we were trying to understand Europe. Hmm. Why Europe? I thought the US was really — had some of the most skepticism, but boy, I was wrong.
And a political scientist, a colleague we work with, Jon kdenney, he took our data from 28 European countries and he looked at it and croaeertld it with political opinion polling. And what did he find? He found that people who are most likely to vote for a populist party also were the ones most likely to strongly disagree that vaccines were important, safe or effective. What did we lrean? Vaccines cannot escape the political and social turbulence that surrounds it. Scientists were unprepared for this tsunami of doubt and qentiouss and dtisrust.
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One of the things that we found fascinating, and we've _______ a lot in the last 10 years — this is our 10th anniversary, this didn't start _________, this rumor problem — and one of the things we've learned is in our global monitoring, that Europe is the most _______________ in the world. France won the _____, actually.
(Laughter)
By far. And actually some of those rumors have ________ to other parts of the world. But we were trying to understand Europe. Hmm. Why Europe? I thought the US was really — had some of the most skepticism, but boy, I was wrong.
And a political scientist, a colleague we work with, Jon _______, he took our data from 28 European countries and he looked at it and __________ it with political opinion polling. And what did he find? He found that people who are most likely to vote for a populist party also were the ones most likely to strongly disagree that vaccines were important, safe or effective. What did we _____? Vaccines cannot escape the political and social turbulence that surrounds it. Scientists were unprepared for this tsunami of doubt and _________ and ________.
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Original Text
One of the things that we found fascinating, and we've learned a lot in the last 10 years — this is our 10th anniversary, this didn't start yesterday, this rumor problem — and one of the things we've learned is in our global monitoring, that Europe is the most skeptical region in the world. France won the prize, actually.
(Laughter)
By far. And actually some of those rumors have traveled to other parts of the world. But we were trying to understand Europe. Hmm. Why Europe? I thought the US was really — had some of the most skepticism, but boy, I was wrong.
And a political scientist, a colleague we work with, Jon Kennedy, he took our data from 28 European countries and he looked at it and correlated it with political opinion polling. And what did he find? He found that people who are most likely to vote for a populist party also were the ones most likely to strongly disagree that vaccines were important, safe or effective. What did we learn? Vaccines cannot escape the political and social turbulence that surrounds it. Scientists were unprepared for this tsunami of doubt and questions and distrust.