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Audio long read: Can giant surveys of scientists fight misinformation on COVID, climate change and more?

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The Importance of Consensus in Vaccine Safety

Researchers found mentioning the consensus among doctors about vaccine safety significantly raised the number of people who said they would. Intended uptake rose by about 4 percentage points compared with a control group that was not told about the doctors' views. Those intentions carried through into a similar difference for actual vaccination between the two groups as measured some nine months after vaccines became widely available.

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