Think Again

Chapter 7. Vaccine Whisperers and Mild-Mannered Interrogators
Marie-Hélène Étienne-Rousseau went into labor
: See Eric Boodman, “The Vaccine Whisperers:
Counselors Gently Engage New Parents Before Their Doubts Harden into Certainty,” STAT,
August 5, 2019, 
www.statnews.com/2019/08/05/the-vaccine-whisperers-counselors-gently-
engage-new-parents-before-their-doubts-harden-into-certainty
.
its mortality rate
: Nick Paumgarten, “The Message of Measles,” New Yorker, August 26, 2019,
www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/09/02/the-message-of-measles
; Leslie Roberts, “Why
Measles Deaths Are Surging—and Coronavirus Could Make It Worse,” Nature, April 7, 2020,
www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01011-6
.
tried to prosecute the problem
: Helen Branswell, “New York County, Declaring Emergency over
Measles, Seeks to Ban Unvaccinated from Public Places,” STAT, March 26, 2019,
www.statnews.com/2019/03/26/rockland-county-ny-declares-emergency-over-measles
; Tyler
Pager, “‘Monkey, Rat and Pig DNA’: How Misinformation Is Driving the Measles Outbreak
among Ultra-Orthodox Jews,” New York Times, April 9, 2019,
www.nytimes.com/2019/04/09/nyregion/jews-measles-vaccination.html
.
The results were often disappointing
: Matthew J. Hornsey, Emily A. Harris, and Kelly S. Fielding,
“The Psychological Roots of Anti-Vaccination Attitudes: A 24-Nation Investigation,” Health
Psychology 37 (2018): 307–15.
introducing people to the research
: Cornelia Betsch and Katharina Sachse, “Debunking
Vaccination Myths: Strong Risk Negations Can Increase Perceived Vaccination Risks,” Health
Psychology 32 (2013): 146–55.
their interest in vaccination didn’t rise at all
: Brendan Nyhan et al., “Effective Messages in
Vaccine Promotion: A Randomized Trial,” Pediatrics 133 (2014): e835–42.