Marc Siegel: COVID vaccine push -- mainstream media's condescension, shaming is the absolute wrong approach

At a time when we need vaccine compliance more than ever, in the heart of a raging pandemic with a wildly spreading delta variant that the vaccine mostly prevents, it is so disturbing to see blatant attacks and mockery of the vaccine resistant in the media.

Nyhan has studied vaccine refusal and hesitancy and a landmark study he published in Pediatrics in 2014 concluded, "Attempts to increase concerns about communicable diseases or correct false claims about vaccines may be especially likely to be counterproductive."   This is why, at a time when we need vaccine compliance more than ever, in the heart of a raging pandemic with a wildly spreading delta variant that the vaccine mostly prevents, it is so disturbing to see blatant attacks and mockery of the vaccine resistant in the media. President Biden directing Facebook to suppress so-called COVID misinformation was one example, which the WSJ editorial board was right to react against.