Beyond politics: additional factors underlying skepticism of a COVID-19 vaccine

Even before it had been developed there had already been skepticism among the general public concerning a vaccine for COVID-19. What are the factors that drive this skepticism? While much has been said about how political differences are at play, in this article I draw attention to two additional fa...

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Autor principal: Boyd, Kenneth
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7839285/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33502602
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40656-021-00369-8
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description Even before it had been developed there had already been skepticism among the general public concerning a vaccine for COVID-19. What are the factors that drive this skepticism? While much has been said about how political differences are at play, in this article I draw attention to two additional factors that have not received as much attention: witnessing the fallibility of the scientific process play out in real time, and a perceived breakdown of the distinction between experts and non-experts.
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spelling pubmed-78392852021-01-28 Beyond politics: additional factors underlying skepticism of a COVID-19 vaccine Boyd, Kenneth Hist Philos Life Sci Notes & Comments Even before it had been developed there had already been skepticism among the general public concerning a vaccine for COVID-19. What are the factors that drive this skepticism? While much has been said about how political differences are at play, in this article I draw attention to two additional factors that have not received as much attention: witnessing the fallibility of the scientific process play out in real time, and a perceived breakdown of the distinction between experts and non-experts. Springer International Publishing 2021-01-27 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC7839285/ /pubmed/33502602 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40656-021-00369-8 Text en © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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