THE VIDEO SHELF · vaccine safety
Vaccines: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
John Oliver's Last Week Tonight segment on vaccines, arguing that the benefits far outweigh the minuscule risks and discussing why some parents still doubt their safety.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN recommends it as an accessible, funny explanation of why vaccines matter.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- LastWeekTonight
- Topic
- vaccine safety
- Format
- commentary
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2018–2021
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Last Week Tonight has a nice episode on Vaccines: [VIDEO] It explains why vaccines are important, why "taking it slow" with vaccines is a bad approach, and other important stuff. Please vaccinate yourself and your kids.
rahuldottech on Hacker News · 2020-01
In DR Congo measles: More than 6k dead in world's worst outbreakYes, sometimes explanations and reasonable arguments can just derail conversations completely. For preventing that, I find David Burns' disarming technique[0] really useful. It is about "finding truth in what the other person is saying, even if it seems blatantly wrong, or illogical, or exaggerated." His …
hjek on Hacker News · 2018-08
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