Congratulations!!!

My colleagues also do a great job explaining why it is harmful for doctor's to qualify vaccine recommendations (ie explaining how it is not required for school attendance)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I fear that the ever-growing political discourse vilifying school vaccine mandates will make it even harder for doctors to use best communication practices.

For details check out the paper now published in Vaccines www.mdpi.com/2076-393X/12... Many thanks to my fantastic co-authors @manteyds.bsky.social and the AVP team at UTHealth

Thank you for sharing, at @kevinault.bsky.social!

So much gratitude to my fantastic co-authors, who have been unwaveringly enthusiastic in supporting this project’s *unconventional* approach to sexual violence prevention.

Many thanks to my wonderful co-authors with the Adolescent Vaccination Program (AVP)

Notably, over 60% of misinformation in the dataset originated from 3 websites. Although Facebook has suspended accounts for some of these websites (i.e. Robert F. Kennedy's Children's Defense Fund), this doesn't stop Facebook users from sharing pages from misinfo websites. (6/6)

We also analyzed changes in discourse over the course of the pandemic.
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Vaccine misinformation decreased from 50% of all articles in 2019 to 24% in 2021. It seems likely that in 2021, anti-vax opinion leaders shifted focus to the COVID vaccine. (5/6)

While pro-vaccine articles (mostly from newspapers) used simple gain-frames, anti-vaccine articles used a wide variety of persuasive strategies. There's a missed opportunity here for health communicators to use persuasive strategies when interviewed by journalists. (4/6)

referring to impending lawsuits against vaccine manufacturers as a form of evidence, overwhelming the reader with evidence or jargon to demonstrate expertise, and using hyperlinks to create the illusion of ample supporting evidence. (3/6)

We found a few persuasive strategies in anti-vaccine rhetoric that have not yet been documented in previous research, including: (2/6)