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How Aristotle helped me overcome my vaccination reluctance

20 Jul 2021 Robert P Crease
Taken from the July 2021 issue of Physics World, where it originally appeared under the headline "Vaccination reluctance".

Robert P Crease explores the range of factors that turned him from vaccine sceptic to believer

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Mind altering What does it take to change the view of someone sceptical of the need for a COVID-19 vaccination? (Courtesy: iStock/triloks)
“No way” was my reaction in February 2020 when asked if I’d take the first round of vaccines f

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Robert P Crease is a professor in the Department of Philosophy, Stony Brook University, US and writes the monthly Critical Point column for Physics World, robertpcrease.com, e-mail robert.crease@stonybrook.edu. His latest book is The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory
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