17
views
0
recommends
+1 Recommend
1 collections
    0
    shares
      • Record: found
      • Abstract: found
      • Article: found
      Is Open Access

      Here we go again: the reemergence of anti-vaccine activism on the Internet Translated title: Aquí vamos de nuevo: el resurgimiento del activismo antivacunas en Internet Translated title: Lá vamos nós outra vez: a reemergência do ativismo antivacina na Internet

      research-article

      Read this article at

      Bookmark
          There is no author summary for this article yet. Authors can add summaries to their articles on ScienceOpen to make them more accessible to a non-specialist audience.

          Abstract

          Abstract: This essay discusses the resurgence of anti-vaccine activism in recent years, based on relevant literature and the author’s own experiences. After presenting possible reasons for the reemergence of such movements and their consequences, the author analyses the role of Internet-mediated communication in amplifying this discourse and making it less amenable to criticism, presenting some of the main arguments deployed by the anti-vaccine agents in their discussions. The text concludes with a draft of possible responses to this increasingly worrying phenomenon.

          Translated abstract

          Resumen: Este trabajo discute el resurgimiento del movimiento antivacunas durante estos recientes años, basado en literatura relevante y en las propias experiencias del autor. Tras presentar las posibles razones del resurgimiento de tales movimientos y sus consecuencias, el autor analiza el rol de la comunicación a través de Internet, amplificando este discurso y haciéndolo menos susceptible a la crítica, presentando algunos de sus principales argumentos difundidos por agentes antivacunas en sus discusiones. El trabajo concluye con un texto preliminar sobre las posibles respuestas para este fenómeno cada vez más preocupante.

          Translated abstract

          Resumo: Este ensaio discute o ressurgimento do ativismo antivacina nos últimos anos, com base na literatura e na experiência do próprio autor. Depois de abordar os possíveis motivos pelo ressurgimento desses movimentos e suas consequências, o autor analisa o papel da comunicação via Internet na amplificação desse discurso, tornando-o menos sensível a críticas, e apresenta alguns dos principais argumentos adotados pelos ativistas antivacina. O texto conclui com um esboço das possíveis respostas a esse fenômeno, cada vez mais preocupante.

          Related collections

          Most cited references35

          • Record: found
          • Abstract: found
          • Article: not found

          Unskilled and unaware of it: how difficulties in recognizing one's own incompetence lead to inflated self-assessments.

          People tend to hold overly favorable views of their abilities in many social and intellectual domains. The authors suggest that this overestimation occurs, in part, because people who are unskilled in these domains suffer a dual burden: Not only do these people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices, but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it. Across 4 studies, the authors found that participants scoring in the bottom quartile on tests of humor, grammar, and logic grossly overestimated their test performance and ability. Although their test scores put them in the 12th percentile, they estimated themselves to be in the 62nd. Several analyses linked this miscalibration to deficits in metacognitive skill, or the capacity to distinguish accuracy from error. Paradoxically, improving the skills of participants, and thus increasing their metacognitive competence, helped them recognize the limitations of their abilities.
            Bookmark
            • Record: found
            • Abstract: found
            • Article: not found

            See Something, Say Something: Correction of Global Health Misinformation on Social Media

            Social media are often criticized for being a conduit for misinformation on global health issues, but may also serve as a corrective to false information. To investigate this possibility, an experiment was conducted exposing users to a simulated Facebook News Feed featuring misinformation and different correction mechanisms (one in which news stories featuring correct information were produced by an algorithm and another where the corrective news stories were posted by other Facebook users) about the Zika virus, a current global health threat. Results show that algorithmic and social corrections are equally effective in limiting misperceptions, and correction occurs for both high and low conspiracy belief individuals. Recommendations for social media campaigns to correct global health misinformation, including encouraging users to refute false or misleading health information, and providing them appropriate sources to accompany their refutation, are discussed.
              Bookmark
              • Record: found
              • Abstract: found
              • Article: not found

              Long-term measles-induced immunomodulation increases overall childhood infectious disease mortality.

              Immunosuppression after measles is known to predispose people to opportunistic infections for a period of several weeks to months. Using population-level data, we show that measles has a more prolonged effect on host resistance, extending over 2 to 3 years. We find that nonmeasles infectious disease mortality in high-income countries is tightly coupled to measles incidence at this lag, in both the pre- and post-vaccine eras. We conclude that long-term immunologic sequelae of measles drive interannual fluctuations in nonmeasles deaths. This is consistent with recent experimental work that attributes the immunosuppressive effects of measles to depletion of B and T lymphocytes. Our data provide an explanation for the long-term benefits of measles vaccination in preventing all-cause infectious disease. By preventing measles-associated immune memory loss, vaccination protects polymicrobial herd immunity.
                Bookmark

                Author and article information

                Journal
                csp
                Cadernos de Saúde Pública
                Cad. Saúde Pública
                Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sergio Arouca, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil )
                0102-311X
                1678-4464
                2020
                : 36
                : suppl 2
                : e00037620
                Affiliations
                [1] Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro orgnameUniversidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro orgdiv1Instituto de Medicina Social Brazil
                Article
                S0102-311X2020001403001 S0102-311X(20)03600003001
                10.1590/0102-311x00037620
                32876099
                9f8575cb-2ab0-4188-a947-082e87dc15ac

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

                History
                : 17 April 2020
                : 02 March 2020
                Page count
                Figures: 0, Tables: 0, Equations: 0, References: 47, Pages: 0
                Categories
                Essay

                Negativa a la Vacunación,Social Media,Internet,Mídias Sociais,Anti-Vaccination Movement,Vaccination Refusal,Movimento contra Vacinação,Recusa de Vacinação,Medios de Comunicación Sociales,Movimiento Anti-Vacunación

                Comments

                Comment on this article