We deal with vaccinations. Part 2. Anti-vaccination

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

1. Scientists usually receive very few grants for safety studies of vaccines, adjuvants, and other vaccine components. However, there is more than enough money to research why people don't get vaccinated and how to get them to inject their children. Therefore, there are many studies characterizing anti-vaccine parents.

2. It is believed that anti-vaccinators are usually uneducated, religious and anti-scientific people. However, scientific evidence suggests otherwise. Most anti-vaccines are well educated and wealthy.

In some private schools in Los Angeles, less than 20% of children are vaccinated. How can it be that these rich and educated people do not vaccinate their children? Don't they know that vaccinations are completely safe, and that they save you from terrible diseases? Or maybe they know something about vaccinations that others do not know?

Here are some studies:

3. Children Who Have Received No Vaccines: Who Are They and Where Do They Live? (Smith, 2004, Pediatrics)

Unvaccinated children are mostly white. Their mothers are over 30, are married, hold an academic degree, and their families earn more than $ 75,000 a year. (USA)

4. Effects of Maternal and Provider Characteristics on Up-to-Date Immunization Status of Children Aged 19 to 35 Months. (Kim, 2007, Am J Public Health)

The lower the mother's education level and the poorer she is, the higher the chance that she will fully vaccinate her children.

Children are more vaccinated by African Americans and Latins, and the poorer they are, the more they vaccinate. (USA)

5. Negative attitude of highly educated parents and health care workers towards future vaccinations in the Dutch childhood vaccination program. (Hak, 2005, Vaccine)

Parents with higher education were 3 times more likely to refuse vaccinations.

Healthcare workers were 4 times more likely to refuse vaccinations.

Atheists are 2.6 times more likely to refuse vaccinations. (Netherlands)

6. Deciding to opt out of childhood vaccination mandates. (Gullion, 2008, Public Health Nurs.)

Parents who do not vaccinate their children value scientific knowledge, know where to look, and how to analyze information about vaccinations, and at the same time do not trust medicine very much. (USA)

7. More Israeli Parents Refusing to Vaccinate Their Babies According to State Regulations

Academically educated mothers are twice as likely to refuse vaccinations.

Jews are 4 times more likely than Muslims to refuse vaccinations.

The higher the age of mothers, the more often they refuse vaccinations. (Israel)

8. Differences in risk factors for partial and no immunization in the first year of life: prospective cohort study. (Samad, 2006, BMJ)

Non-vaccinated mothers are older and more educated than vaccinated mothers. (Great Britain)

9. A Population-Based Evaluation of a Publicly Funded, School-Based HPV Vaccine Program in pitish Columbia, Canada: Parental Factors Associated with HPV Vaccine Receipt. (Ogilvie, 2010, PLoS Med.)

More educated parents were more likely to refuse HPV vaccinations for their daughters. (Canada)

10. Predictors of HPV vaccine acceptability: a theory-informed, systematic review. (pewer, 2007, Prev Med.)

Systematic review of 28 studies. The higher the education level of the parents, the more often they refused HPV vaccination.

11. Factors associated with uptake of measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine (MMR) and use of single antigen vaccines in a contemporary UK cohort: prospective cohort study. (Pearce, 2008, BMJ)

The higher the level of education, age and income, the more often parents abandoned the notorious MMR, and chose the non-combined measles vaccine. (Great Britain)

12. Acceptance of human papillomavirus vaccination among Californian parents of daughters: a representative statewide analysis. (Constantine, 2007, J Adolesc Health)

College-educated parents and conservatives were less likely to let their daughters get the HPV vaccine. Parents who did not graduate from school, Catholics and liberals were more likely to allow their daughters to get this vaccine. (California, USA)

13. Maternal characteristics and hospital policies as risk factors for nonreceipt of hepatitis B vaccine in the newborn nursery. (O'Leary, 2012, Pediatr Infect Dis J)

Better educated mothers and mothers with higher incomes are more likely to refuse to vaccinate their newborn child against hepatitis B. (Colorado, USA)

14. After Australia passed legislation requiring parents to vaccinate their children for child benefits (No jab, no pay), parents living in wealthy areas of Melbourne have begun to vaccinate even less. More educated parents, many with scientific backgrounds, question the safety and need for vaccinations.

Only 20% of those parents who did not vaccinate before the adoption of this law began to vaccinate because of it.

10% of Australian parents believe vaccines are associated with autism.

15. There are many more similar studies, and they all come to the same conclusions. Parents who do not vaccinate their children are always older, more educated and wealthier. Please stop treating them like idiots.

And here are some more extraordinarily important studies for which taxpayer money was found:

16. Clinician-parent discussions about in fl uenza vaccination of children and their association with vaccine acceptance. (Hofstetter, 2017, Vaccine)

If the doctor says "today we will get the flu shot," then 72% of parents agree. And if the doctor asks “are we going to get a flu shot today?”, Then only 17% agree.

If a doctor recommends getting a flu shot along with any other vaccine, then 83% of parents agree. And if a doctor separately offers a flu shot, then only 33% agree to get it. Note to doctors.

17. Greater freedom of speech on Web 2.0 correlates with dominance of views linking vaccines to autism. (Venkatraman, 2015, Vaccine)

The authors of this study analyzed YouTube, Google, Wikipedia and Pabmed, and came to the conclusion that the more freedom of speech on the resource, the more it associates vaccinations with autism. Most of the freedom of speech is on YouTube, on Google it is less, and on Wikipedia and Pabmed there is very little of it. This leads to the fact that on YouTube, 75% of videos associate vaccinations with autism, on Google 41% of links, on Wikipedia 14% of articles, and on Pabmed 17% of articles associate vaccinations with autism (more than on Wikipedia!).

But worst of all, the study authors note, anti-vaccine activists use scientific evidence (!), Doctors (!), Famous people and personal stories to inspire trust! The problem is, they write, that YouTube, unlike Google, does not give priority to scientific authorities in the search for videos.

Doctors participated in 36% of anti-vaccination rolls, and only 28% of vaccination rolls.

The authors of the study propose to moderate the Internet, and also urge medical institutions to be more active there.

18. Content and Design Attributes of Antivaccination Web Sites (Wolfe, 2002, JAMA)

In this study, the authors analyzed 22 anti-vaccination sites and concluded that anti-vaccination sites opposed vaccinations.

19. There are a lot of similar studies, here are a few more, for those who want to delve further into this fun topic:

20. A comparison of language use in pro- and anti-vaccination comments in response to a high pro fi le Facebook post. (Faasse, 2016, Vaccine)

The study authors analyzed comments on Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook post. They concluded that the anti-vaccine comments were more analytical and more relevant. The comments of the vaccinees were marked by increased anxiety.

21. Grants were found for all these studies. But there is no money for adequate studies of the safety of vaccinations, such that they last more than a few days, and would use a real placebo.

But you hold on there, all the best to you, and good mood!

UPD 18/9

Professor of Pediatrics Dr. Carol J. Baker offers a simple solution to the anti-vaccine problem. Since anti-vaccines are mostly white and educated, she suggests getting rid of all white people in the United States.