Stuck: How Vaccine Rumors Start--and Why They Don't Go Away

Vaccine reluctance and refusal are no longer limited to the margins of society. Debates around vaccines' necessity — along with questions around their side effects — have gone mainstream, blending with geopolitical conflicts, political campaigns, celebrity causes, and "natural" lifestyles to win a growing number of hearts and minds. Today's anti-vaccine positions find audiences where they've never existed previously.

Stuck examines how the issues surrounding vaccine hesitancy are, more than...