Infectious, Pt. 3: Going Viral
Endless Thread
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4.1 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2019
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
You can’t tell the story of today’s anti-vaccine — or “vaccine hesitant”— movement without telling a story of technology and social media. Part 3 of our "Infectious" series looks at the spread of anti-vaccine messaging online and how the Internet and social media have made it possible for vaccine-related misinformation and hoaxes to reach further and faster than ever before.
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| 0:00.0 | Funding for this podcast comes from MathWorks, creators of MATLAB and Simulink Software, |
| 0:06.2 | accelerating the pace of engineering and science. Learn more at MathWorks.com. |
| 0:11.2 | Produced by the ILAB at WBUR Boston. |
| 0:18.0 | This is Episode 3 of Infectious, our special series on vaccines. |
| 0:25.4 | If you haven't already heard Episode 1, Scabs, Puss and Puritans or Episode 2, the Flintstone |
| 0:31.0 | dilemma, you should go listen to those first. Okay, enjoy. |
| 0:37.3 | Do you guys have any questions before we get started? |
| 0:39.5 | I don't think so, no. We just have our sun sleeping so we'll just roll with that if |
| 0:46.6 | he wakes up, you know what I mean? |
| 0:48.1 | Eli and Jen are redditors. They're in their 30s, their new parents, they're from |
| 0:52.9 | Springfield, Missouri. |
| 0:54.9 | How old is your son? 20 months. |
| 0:57.4 | 20 months? Oh man, we should be having a play date together. |
| 1:01.6 | If we're ever out in Boston, I'll hit you up. |
| 1:03.7 | My babies are 21 months, so I feel your pain and you feel mine. |
| 1:09.4 | Jen and Eli have been together for a while. |
| 1:12.1 | It'll be 11 years in May, so it's nice. |
| 1:16.0 | How would you describe your relationship? |
| 1:18.6 | That whole cliche of opposites attract, I think definitely fits our marriage. |
| 1:25.7 | A prime example of this came up when Eli and Jen first got pregnant. Eli, pro vaccination. |
| 1:32.4 | Jen? |
| 1:33.4 | It still is a subject that makes me nervous because it's not clear black and white. |
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