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April 13, 2010

Here's part of how the vaccine fears took root among antivaccers

Straight from the pages of behavioral psychology, it's a classic case of overestimating the likelihood of rare events.

Of course, that was exacerbated by Dr. Andrew Wakefield's pseudoscience on thimerosal, further exacerbated by Nature actually printing that.

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