Table of Contents
1. The parents of unvaccinated children 1.1. The 80s, the beginning of the crisis (or resistance)
1.2. Education about risk
1.3. Social changes: The doctor-patient relationship in jeopardy
1.4. Unexpected impact of late fecundity
2. A brief history of the anti-vaccination movements
2.1. The anti-vaccination movements between 1700 and 1800: Roots of obligation and objection
2.2. The anti-vaccination movements in 1900: Media and politics
3. Web alarms: autism, mercury and immune overload 3.1. Conspiracy on the Internet: separating fact from fiction
3.2. Economic criticism: Big Pharma and the allure of patents
3.3. Logic errors: the precautionary principle and the equal balance mistake
3.4. False or manipulated data: Autism
3.5. Prejudices and ideologies: Purported overload and weakening of the immune system
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4. The antivax “experts": five ways to recognize them
4.1. Alternative philosophies: homeopathy, anthroposophy and Waldarf -Steiner schools
4.2. The "alternative therapies": Five clues that reveal a charlatan
5. Past, present, and future of vaccines
5.1. Evolutionary history of naturally acquired immunity
5.2. Artificially acquired immunity: success and safety of vaccines
5.3. Therapeutic vaccines of the future: cancer and neurodegenerative diseases
6. Conclusions
6.1. A new alliance between scientists and citizens for a “knowledge society”
6.2. Some tools for good communication strategies to combat anti-vaccination resistance
