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Ratings of Trump’s job performance remain more negative than positive: 54% say they disapprove of the job he is doing, while 39% approve. Public evaluations of Trump’s job performance are about the same as they were in February. Ratings of Trump continue to trail those of recent presidents at similar points in their presidencies. In […]
The following tables detail the results of a series of statistical models predicting people’s beliefs about the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, their views about a school-based requirement for the MMR vaccine and their views of medical scientists associated with childhood vaccines from a set of explanatory variables. The regression analyses using a binary logistic […]
Public debate over the safety of childhood vaccines, particularly the vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella, is typically linked with a 1998 research study – later discredited – that suggested that the MMR vaccine was associated with autism.[9. numoffset=”9″ See Public Trust in Vaccines: Defining a Research Agenda, 2014. American Academy of Arts & Sciences.] Seth […]
Most Americans say the media are doing a good job reporting issues related to childhood vaccines. People who care deeply about childhood vaccine issues and those who follow such news reports more closely are especially positive in their views of news coverage on this topic. Young adults, ages 18 to 29, are more negative in […]