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Elise V. Bailey

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Postdoctoral researcher at University of Utah. Health services, mental health, health disparities, health policy, health geography.

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"challenge scientific orthodoxy"

21.11.2025 19:07 — 👍 13    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1

Sorry, those are from 2019 and 2016, respectively. My bad!

20.11.2025 21:12 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Graphs showing agreement among various subgroups that vaccines should be required for school children. 90% of liberals, 84% of moderates, and 73% of conservatives said they agreed.

Graphs showing agreement among various subgroups that vaccines should be required for school children. 90% of liberals, 84% of moderates, and 73% of conservatives said they agreed.

And this was about childhood vaccination requirements, same time.

20.11.2025 21:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Graphs showing agreement among various groups that measles vaccine benefits are high. 89% of Republicans and people who lean Republican agreed. 88% of Democrats and people who lean Democratic agreed.

Graphs showing agreement among various groups that measles vaccine benefits are high. 89% of Republicans and people who lean Republican agreed. 88% of Democrats and people who lean Democratic agreed.

I don’t think Pew ran these same questions in the past, but this was about the measles vaccine in 2017.

20.11.2025 21:10 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Graphic showing that only 48% of Republicans believe that vaccines are safe and effective, while 80% of Democrats do; that only 35% of republicans think vaccines are tested for safety, while 74% of Democrats do; and that only 32% of Republicans think the childhood vaccine schedule is safe, while 71% of democrats do.

Graphic showing that only 48% of Republicans believe that vaccines are safe and effective, while 80% of Democrats do; that only 35% of republicans think vaccines are tested for safety, while 74% of Democrats do; and that only 32% of Republicans think the childhood vaccine schedule is safe, while 71% of democrats do.

A horrifying graphic from Pew showing the fruits of the right wing war on public health.

Only 48% of Republicans believe that vaccines prevent serious illness, while 80% of Democrats do.

This is not a difference of opinion in science. This is the result of a ruthless disinformation campaign.

20.11.2025 20:46 — 👍 709    🔁 336    💬 35    📌 34

I’m too new to suicide research to have a real opinion about this, but it seems intriguing at least.

20.11.2025 19:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The actual secret to why I know stuff is that I ask a question any time I don’t understand literally anything. I don’t care how simple it is. Anybody who makes fun of you for asking a simple question likely doesn’t know the answer either

20.11.2025 00:32 — 👍 2816    🔁 429    💬 32    📌 56

AND even if you can choose, we know that people don’t always care much about price when they make health care decisions.

20.11.2025 03:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Here in reality, you rarely have the choice. You don’t know the prices when you choose, have geographic or insurance restrictions, don’t understand health care well enough to compare the quality of the options, are incapacitated, etc. etc.

20.11.2025 03:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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