Matthew Motta, Steven Sylvester and Timothy Callaghan

Guest writer

Matthew Motta is a Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania; Steven Sylvester is assistant professor in public policy at Utah Valley University; and Timothy Callaghan is assistant professor at the School of Public Health, Texas A&M University.

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Why vaccine opponents think they know more than medical experts

Could the Dunning-Kruger effect – when individuals’ ignorance about a particular subject makes them believe they're more expert than they are – be the reason for intractably anti-vax views?

By Matthew Motta, Steven Sylvester and Timothy Callaghan | 20th August, 2018