Health

Mon Mar 6

Please don't do your own research on immunisation; you'll get it wrong

Written by Michael Vagg, Clinical Senior Lecturer at Deakin University School of Medicine & Pain Specialist, Deakin University

Pauline Hanson has become the latest politician to flirt with the fringe view of immunisation denial. Of course, like all thoroughly modern anti-vaxers, she claims to be about choice and empowerment rather than denial of the overwhelming scientific consensus.

Of all the weasel words immunisation deniers use, I get most infuriated by the ‘do...

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