Comments on: Vaccines and evidence http://www.makingmedicaldecisions.com/2008/vaccines-and-evidence/ The blog for the forthcoming book "Medical Decision Making: A Physician's Guide" by Alan Schwartz and George Bergus (Cambridge University Press, 2008) Wed, 04 May 2011 01:39:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Alan Schwartz http://www.makingmedicaldecisions.com/2008/vaccines-and-evidence/comment-page-1/#comment-5960 Alan Schwartz Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:23:07 +0000 http://www.makingmedicaldecisions.com/2008/vaccines-and-evidence/#comment-5960 And, just to resurrect this old post, Lancet today <a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2010/02/lancet_wakefield_autism_mmr_au.html" rel="nofollow">retracted the 1998 Wakefield article purporting to link vaccines and autism</a>. And, just to resurrect this old post, Lancet today retracted the 1998 Wakefield article purporting to link vaccines and autism.

]]> By: Alan Schwartz http://www.makingmedicaldecisions.com/2008/vaccines-and-evidence/comment-page-1/#comment-851 Alan Schwartz Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:24:25 +0000 http://www.makingmedicaldecisions.com/2008/vaccines-and-evidence/#comment-851 The Downs, Bruine de Bruin, and Fischhoff study is a really neat piece of work, David. Thanks for calling it to my attention! The Downs, Bruine de Bruin, and Fischhoff study is a really neat piece of work, David. Thanks for calling it to my attention!

]]> By: David Hardman http://www.makingmedicaldecisions.com/2008/vaccines-and-evidence/comment-page-1/#comment-849 David Hardman Wed, 01 Oct 2008 01:54:20 +0000 http://www.makingmedicaldecisions.com/2008/vaccines-and-evidence/#comment-849 The following news item describes how the MMR scare unfolded in the UK. The author, a journalist who is a practising doctor, also notes that vaccination scares often differ between countries. http://www.badscience.net/2008/08/the-medias-mmr-hoax/ A mental models analysis of parents' understanding of vaccination issues has just been published by Julie Downs, Wandi Bruine de Bruin and Baruch Fischhoff: "Parents' vaccination comprehension and decisions", in Vaccine, 26, 1595-1607. The following news item describes how the MMR scare unfolded in the UK. The author, a journalist who is a practising doctor, also notes that vaccination scares often differ between countries.

http://www.badscience.net/2008/08/the-medias-mmr-hoax/

A mental models analysis of parents’ understanding of vaccination issues has just been published by Julie Downs, Wandi Bruine de Bruin and Baruch Fischhoff: “Parents’ vaccination comprehension and decisions”, in Vaccine, 26, 1595-1607.

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