# Article suggestions for vaccines and fluoride

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 29, 2013, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/article-suggestions-for-vaccines-and-fluoride/672545 "2013-10-29T11:39:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![gracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8e7dd6/32.png) [@gracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gracer)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2013, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/article-suggestions-for-vaccines-and-fluoride/672545/1 "2013-10-29T11:39:18Z")

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As this is a favourite SMDB pasttime, I thought I’d ask for suggestions for articles about the American anti-vax movement and anti-fluoride movement here. Also, we have our own Doper experts! 🙂 (I’d read their whole [book](http://www.amazon.com/Your-Babys-Best-Shot-Vaccines/dp/144221578X) in class, but it might be too long…)

One of my students is moving to the US, and is taking English lessons in preparation. We cover aspects of everyday life every lesson. This week we’re doing health, and I thought it would be interesting to read about the American anti-vax movement so she’s prepared. She’s a dentist herself, so I think she would be interested to hear about fluoride fears as well.

I’m not so much looking for myth-busting articles, as articles giving an overview, and interesting journalism. Ease or difficulty isn’t an issue.

So please share your favourite articles about the anti-vax movement. It’s something I enjoy reading about anyway, so I think it’ll be fun to share good articles!

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**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2013, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/article-suggestions-for-vaccines-and-fluoride/672545/2 "2013-10-29T12:35:34Z")

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For books covering the history of vaccines and antivaxers, don’t miss out on several good books - “Vaccine” by Arthur Allen, Paul Offit’s “Deadly Choices” and Seth Mnookin’s “The Panic Virus”.

Articles: [http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/10/ff\_waronscience/all/1](http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/10/ff_waronscience/all/1)  
[http://www.skepticnorth.com/2012/04/antivax-101-tactics-and-tropes-of-the-antivaccine-movement/](http://www.skepticnorth.com/2012/04/antivax-101-tactics-and-tropes-of-the-antivaccine-movement/)

I haven’t heard/read these online lectures but they look interesting:

> **[From Jenner to Wakefield: The long shadow of the anti-vaccination movement](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/jenner-wakefield-long-shadow-anti-vaccination-movement)**
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> In 1998 a medical furore broke out when The Lancet published an article by Andrew Wakefield questioning the benefits of the MMR vaccination which was being given unquestioningly to children throughout the UK. Coming 202 years after the first...