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Vaccination


Producer Bias in Recent PBS Frontline Report: The Vaccine War
Parenting & Baby Care - Vaccination
Written by Administrator   

 

PBS Frontline has The Vaccine War available to watch on their website and you can find the full interviews that did not make it in to the report here.  Reports like this do not aid in educating the populace, especially when allegations of open bias and omission of key information are raised.  They do not encourage open discussion of multiple viewpoints and the data points in support of each of these viewpoints.  Lastly, they collapse the discussion into an US vs THEM that allows one to create misleading associations between people who have similar viewpoints as a means of discrediting them.

For example, I am a firm believer in the importance of a mobile populace who have full access to a variety of transportation options from effective public transportation to inexpensive private transportation.  In this one area, I am in agreement with the person widely believed to be the driving force behind the VW Beetle.  Outside of this one instance, our views diverge dramatically and I prefer to avoid any associations.

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