Vaccine-Autism Debate a Side Effect of Self-Delusion

1,138 views · Published 28 January 2013 · 3:25 · Indexed 23 September 2026

Channel: FORA.tv · 2013 · Science & Technology

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California State University, East Bay psychology lecturer Marilin Colon argues that overconfidence causes arguments that have fostered the potentially harmful belief that autism is caused by vaccination.

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