Greater freedom of speech on Web 2.0 correlates with dominance of views linking vaccines to autism

Vaccine

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1422-1425

  Venkatraman, Anand ^a   Garg, Neetika ^b   Kumar, Nilay ^c  

^a The University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c CAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism; Free speech; Internet; Vaccines; Web 2.0

Indexed keywords

MEASLES MUMPS RUBELLA VACCINE; VACCINE;

ARTICLE; AUTISM; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC FIGURE; PUBLIC OPINION; VACCINATION; VIDEORECORDING; WEB BROWSER; AUTISTIC DISORDER; FREEDOM; INTERNET; MEDLINE; SOCIAL MEDIA; SPEECH;

AUTISTIC DISORDER; FREEDOM; HUMANS; INTERNET; PUBMED; SOCIAL MEDIA; SPEECH; VACCINES;

EID: 84924485044     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: 18732518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2015.01.078     Document Type: Article

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