Your Baby's Best Shot Chapter Summary

After reading Stacy Herlihy and Allison Hagood’s respective stories in the introduction, I changed my point of view about this book. I first thought that Your Baby’s Best Shot was a book that is written to evaluate and discuss the reasons why vaccines are safe for babies. I assumed that both authors came from a scientific background that will make this book one sided. However, I was surprised that neither of the authors did. I was surprised in Stacy’s opening story, how she was once in a situation where she had come across a new controversy in her life after giving birth to her baby. Whether or not to vaccinate her baby? I immediately knew she was not going to have biases in the book. When she mentions the results post vaccination of her baby, with the high pitched crying fit, I recalled when my nephew got his first DTaP vaccine. The same situation had occurred where after 6 hours of getting …show more content…
Her purpose in this book is to give the right information to parents about vaccination and misinformation about vaccines. She starts talking about cognitive bias and how this affects how we perceive information. Ever since I can remember, vaccines had always been an uprising conflict in the news and social media, but I always figured it was due to concerned individuals or people just being scared of needles and using this to conspire against getting vaccines. But after reading the short summary by Allison about confirmation bias and illusory correlation, I now can see why people are affected by anti-vaccine stories in the media. All it takes is one negative side effect to influence a person’s decision to vaccinate. I also really liked the analogy she made with the violence in American school systems. Just because certain school have had violence that is memorable, doesn’t make all the schools in American the