Vaccine Hesitancy: Public Trust, Expertise, and the War on Science

Public confidence in scientific institutions and government bodies has been shaken by fraud, research scandals, and misconduct. In Vaccine Hesitancy, Maya J. Goldenberg reveals bow vaccine studies sponsored by the pharmaceutical industry, compelling rhetorics from the antivaccine movement, and the spread of populist knowledge on social media have all contributed to a public mistrust of the scientific consensus. Importantly, she also emphasizes how historical and current discrimination in he...