Study: to beat science denial, inoculate against misinformers' tricks | Dana Nuccitelli

A new study finds that explaining the techniques of science denial makes people resistant to their effects
After receiving misinformation from the anti-vaccine movement, including its founder Andrew Wakefield, immunization rates plummeted in a community of Somali immigrants in Minnesota, causing a measles outbreak among their children. It’s a disturbing trend on the rise in America that shows the importance of immunization and the dangerous power of misinformation.A new paper published in