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Description: Vaccines might be one of the greatest medical accomplishments in history, mitigating deadly diseases such as smallpox, polio, and measles. Then why, in the last two decades, has the anti-vaccine movement gained significant traction? Lou discusses how misinformation and bad “science” can put children all over the world at risk. SOURCES & FURTHER READING CDC - Vaccines do not cause autism cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/autism.html The Autism-Vaccine Myth pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/autism-vaccine-myth Wakefield’s study debunked ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3136032 Vaccines are not associated with autism sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X14006367 Peter Hotez - Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel's Autism jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/content/vaccines-did-not-cause-rachels-autism Rob Brotherton - Suspicious Minds: Why We Believe Conspiracy Theories bloomsbury.com/us/suspicious-minds-9781472915641 Bots spread false vaccine information ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdf/10.2105/AJPH.2018.304567 CREDITS Writer: Louis Foglia Editor: m.cho Researcher: Dushyant Naresh Supervising Producer: Allison Brown Follow Beme on Instagram: instagram.com/bemenews Twitter: twitter.com/bemeapp Facebook: facebook.com/officialbeme