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Public health, science, and policy debate: Being right is not enough

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  • Camargo, K.
  • Grant, R.

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Public health is usually enacted through public policies, necessitating that the public engage in debates that, ideally, are grounded in solid scientific findings. Mistrust in science, however, has compromised the possibility of deriving sound policy from such debates, partially owing to justified concerns regarding undue interference and even outright manipulation by commercial interests. This situation has generated problematic impasses, one of which is the emergence of an antivaccination movement that is already affecting public health, with a resurgence in the United States of preventable diseases thought to have been eradicated. Drawing on British sociologist Harry Collins' work on expertise, we propose a theoretical framework in which the paralyzing, undue public distrust of science can be analyzed and, it is hoped, overcome.

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  • Camargo, K. & Grant, R., 2015. "Public health, science, and policy debate: Being right is not enough," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 105(2), pages 232-235.
    • Handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:10.2105/ajph.2014.302241_3
    DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2014.302241
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    1. Tamar M. J. Antin & Geoffrey Hunt & Rachelle Annechino, 2021. "Tobacco Harm Reduction as a Path to Restore Trust in Tobacco Control," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(11), pages 1-5, May.
    2. Christopher L. Cummings & Sonny Rosenthal & Wei Yi Kong, 2021. "Secondary Risk Theory: Validation of a Novel Model of Protection Motivation," Risk Analysis, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 41(1), pages 204-220, January.
    3. Motta, Matthew & Callaghan, Timothy & Sylvester, Steven, 2018. "Knowing less but presuming more: Dunning-Kruger effects and the endorsement of anti-vaccine policy attitudes," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 211(C), pages 274-281.

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