Quoted: Brendan Nyhan on Correcting Myths About Vaccines

12/11/2014
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Dartmouth Now takes note when faculty members weigh in on issues of the day. Here is today’s “Quoted”:

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“People think of public health messaging as a silver bullet, but people’s minds are a lot harder to change than that,” says Professor Brendan Nyhan in a Reuters story about a new study co-authored by Nyhan that concludes that correcting myths about vaccines may not be the most effective approach to promoting immunization.

Nyhan is an assistant professor of government.

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