Lecture: 'A War on Science? The Death of Expertise? Rethinking Vaccine Hesitancy'.
Vaccine hesitancy is framed as a problem of public misunderstanding of science, so vaccine outreach focuses on educating the misguided public.
This is a flawed approach.
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Vaccine hesitancy is framed as a problem of public misunderstanding of science, so vaccine outreach focuses on educating the misguided public.
This is a flawed approach.
peritia-trust.eu/peritia-lectur…
Where vaccine hesitancy continues, cynicism has bred the harsher view that the hesitant publics are anti-science and/or anti-expertise.
Yet research into science and the publics lends strong support to a different view, which it is very important to understand.
Yet research into science and the publics lends strong support to a different view, which it is very important to understand.
Public attitudes regarding scientific claims turn crucially on epistemic trust (an individual's willingness to consider new knowledge as trustworthy) rather than familiarity with science itself: it follows that it is poor trust in expert sources that engender vaccine hesitancy.
Vaccine hesitancy signals a problem with scientific governance rather than a problem with wayward publics.
To improve vaccine communications, the focus should be building trust, rather than educating the misinformed publics or puzzling over their moral or epistemic failings.
To improve vaccine communications, the focus should be building trust, rather than educating the misinformed publics or puzzling over their moral or epistemic failings.
Building trust between a skeptical public & scientific expertise does not discount that public health agencies have the science on their sides. It does mean recognizing that the best science is not enough to ensure public uptake of health recommendations.
annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.114…
annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.114…
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