… I called Brendan Nyhan, a political scientist at Dartmouth who specializes in the sometimes magical thinking people have in politics and health care. … In his political research, he has demonstrated that giving people corrective information can deepen their misperceptions — findings that dishearten any debunker.
Here’s our interview about why it’s so hard to get people to change their minds about vaccines, why corrective information fails, and how to prevent vaccine denialism in the first place. CONT.
Julia Belluz, Vox