Anti-Vaccine Beliefs Raced Around The World While Science Was Putting On Its Shoes

Sunday, April 19, 2015 - 13:20 in Mathematics & Economics

There is an old saying that A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. This was brought home to me during a radio interview I did on Tuesday night in the wake of the Federal Government’s decision to remove the conscientious objection exemption for vaccination. I was astonished that in 2015, some of these pieces of misinformation are still out there, and still believed, if the passionate radio callers (and several posts in my Facebook feed) are any indication. read more

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