HEALTHLOUISIANA ILLUMINATOR
How vaccine skeptics’ storytelling creates powerful but medically inaccurate messaging
The article discusses how vaccine skeptics use storytelling to spread medically inaccurate messaging, tracing historical opposition to vaccines in the 19th century and modern movements like the Make America Healthy Again movement. It highlights that vaccine hesitancy is a 'wicked problem' driven by misinformation, social belonging, and beliefs, not just a lack of scientific understanding.
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