Beyond us and them: The role of trust in vaccine controversy

Posted on AllSides May 8th, 2019
From The Center

When it comes to the fraught topic of vaccines, Julie Rehmeyer is sometimes balancing on a razor-sharp edge.

She’s a science writer with an advanced mathematics degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She also has many friends who, like her, have struggled with poorly understood diseases and share a distrust of the medical establishment as a result. For many that trust carries over to vaccines. Ms. Rehmeyer, whose memoir “Into the Shadowlands” chronicles her struggles with chronic fatigue syndrome, says she’s often hesitant to wade into the topic on...

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https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2019/0507/Beyond-us-and-them-The-role-of-trust-in-vaccine-controversy

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