anti-vaccination

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The Power, Peril and Promise of Health Journalism

February 14, 2015 Cameron D. Norman 742 Views anti-vaccination, Ben Goldacre, CBC Radio, Gardasil HPV vaccine, health reporting, journalism, Julia Belluz, knowledge translation, media ecology, medical evidence, medicine, newspapers, public health, science, the fourth estate, The Guardian, Toronto Star, vaccines

The Toronto Star, Canada’s most widely read newspaper known for its investigative reporting gifted anti-vaccination audiences armament by using poor

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Designing for Empathy and Health

July 29, 2013July 29, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 414 Views anti-vaccination, design, design thinking, empathy, evidence, health, health communications, health literacy, Julie Leask, language, media, public health, qualitative research, Twitter, vaccination, wicked problems

When does common sense make little sense? How do we sense-make evidence when it seems to make little sense? The

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Attack on Anti-vac – Toronto Public Health vs. Jenny McCarthy

July 25, 2013July 25, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 388 Views anti-vaccination, evidence, health communications, health promotion, Jenny McCarthy, Nicole Ghanie-Opondo, Penn and Teller, public health, science, social media, Toronto Public Health

Yesterday I posted on the story of Toronto Public Health tweeting a call for its followers to voice concerns to

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