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Unvaccinated white evangelicals appear immune to pro-vaccine messaging (All others cave to the media)
Medical XPress / Yale University / Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ^ | Nov. 30, 2021 | Scott E. Bokemper et al

Posted on 11/30/2021 2:52:10 PM PST by ConservativeMind

White evangelical Christians have resisted getting vaccinated against COVID-19 at higher rates than other religious groups in the United States. A new study by Yale researchers provides evidence that persuading these vaccine holdouts to get their shots has only gotten more difficult.

"At this point, unvaccinated white evangelicals seem resistant to messaging aimed at persuading them of the benefits of being vaccinated against COVID-19," said Gregory A. Huber, the Forst Family Professor of Political Science in Yale's Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and a co-author of the study. "It's not clear whether this is because resistance to vaccination among white evangelicals has increased over time or that the current holdouts were always the least persuadable. What is clear is that messaging that was effective last fall, before vaccines were approved, now seems ineffective."

The initial survey, fielded on a nationally representative sample of 855 white evangelicals, gauged how various messages affected white evangelicals' intentions to get vaccinated, their willingness to advise a friend to get the shots, and their judgments of people who refuse the vaccine. Respondents were randomly assigned to one of seven conditions: A placebo message unrelated to COVID-19, a baseline message about vaccine efficacy, or five treatment messages that added specific content to that baseline.

…Neither survey showed that values-based messaging was successful at persuading white evangelicals to get vaccinated, contrasting with prior research that has found that values-consistent messaging increased positive attitudes towards masking among members of the same group.

"This study highlights the importance of testing and re-testing messages as the people requiring persuasion changes over time," said Scott E. Bokemper.

(Excerpt) Read more at medicalxpress.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: anthonyfauci; connecticut; covid; covidstooges; evangelicals; obamacare; scottebokemper; vaccine; vaccinemandates; vaccines; yale
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To: stars & stripes forever

‘Give an honest but ignorant man the truth and he will either ceases to be ignorant or cease to be honest.’


21 posted on 11/30/2021 3:07:25 PM PST by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: olivia3boys

I don’t have a problem with people getting the vaccine. I encourage it for persons with multiple comorbidities who won’t take the preventative and treatment steps needed.

My mother and many others near to me have gotten the vaccine, but, as with you, it was most often due to “practical” considerations, rather than mind-numbing media messages and similar manipulations, like this study tried.


22 posted on 11/30/2021 3:08:25 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Antoninus

I would never speculate—but these vaxxes have a real nasty habit of causing coincidences.

I really don’t like coincidences. :-)


23 posted on 11/30/2021 3:08:48 PM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: ConservativeMind

I am hardly evangelical. And I don’t think the African American community that is largely rejecting this is white either

Lies lies and more lies


24 posted on 11/30/2021 3:09:55 PM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: ConservativeMind

It’s hysterical. So… White evangelical Christians aren’t getting the message. Well, the message I keep getting is fauxinate or you’re going to die. No natural immunity is ever discussed, no other treatments are ever discussed. You are considered a pariah if you even mention there are other avenues to treating something that most people recover from I’ve had it, I know.

When the messaging doesn’t make sense, there is something nefarious being done behind the scenes. THAT’S the message coming through

No thanks


25 posted on 11/30/2021 3:10:25 PM PST by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison........like yesterday!!! )
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To: Wallace T.

He and his Network were militantly against the vaccine. Didn’t work out so well for him now did it.


26 posted on 11/30/2021 3:13:13 PM PST by bella1 (Mean Tweets 2024!)
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To: Wallace T.

Died from a “combination “ of pneumonia and covid? Sure. I believe that 🙄


27 posted on 11/30/2021 3:13:27 PM PST by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison........like yesterday!!! )
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To: ConservativeMind
Gregory A. Huber, the Forst Family Professor of Political Science

How ironic he's the Forced Family Professor.

28 posted on 11/30/2021 3:14:55 PM PST by seowulf (Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos...Will Durant)
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To: cgbg

It is nit a coinkedink that these jabs suppress your immune system. That’s a killer side effect!


29 posted on 11/30/2021 3:16:20 PM PST by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: ConservativeMind
"For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind."
2 Timothy 1:7
30 posted on 11/30/2021 3:16:26 PM PST by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

“Christians are the problem.”

501c(3) Government sanctioned churches is a program of the devil.

And since the government owns their asses more or less once they sign into that contract the government can hold sway.

I think taking a tax deduction on a church donation waters down the meaning and intent of the tithe. Giving 10% tithe to the church for church work and then turn around and claim that money as a tax deduction? I know it sounds like a good idea but if you think about it from a NT perspective THAT DEDUCTION actually goes against the personal act of giving the tithe.

I know 501c(3) churches aren’t supposed to be PACs but 501c(3) churches in this country preach politics all through the political election cycle and then NEVER get called on it. Why?

Non 501c(3) churches can talk about politics all they want, and then they get doxxed for doing what they’re allowed to do by NOT entering in into a contract with the government as a 501c(3) church


31 posted on 11/30/2021 3:17:35 PM PST by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: metmom
Let me note that I wouldn't be surprised if there are people pulling dirty tricks to infect prominent anti-vax advocates. Mr. Lamb also contracted pneumonia. He is not the first. Several radio talk show hosts in local markets who were anti-vax contracted and died from the disease.
32 posted on 11/30/2021 3:18:33 PM PST by Wallace T.
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To: Wallace T.

We all pass on unless the Lord catches us all up before then.

Many many pro vaxxers died of “covid related” causes after vaxx.

Pneumonia is the killer pretty much regardless of which UR virus one contracts.


33 posted on 11/30/2021 3:18:44 PM PST by Manly Warrior (US ARMY (Ret), "No Free Lunches for the Dogs of War" )
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To: MHGinTN

I have read a ridiculous number of articles about this stuff—and I have decided to follow the approach of the “experts”.

They obviously believe in magic—so do I.

These vaxxes magically cause coincidences.

Black magic.

Keep that stuff away from me!


34 posted on 11/30/2021 3:20:43 PM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: ConservativeMind

35 posted on 11/30/2021 3:20:59 PM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: ConservativeMind

I have heard that covid vaccines are made using aborted fetal tissues. Apparently only white evangelical Christians are the only people who object to that. If you want Muslims to become a larger unvaccinated population tell them that the vaccines are made from pig tissues


36 posted on 11/30/2021 3:23:00 PM PST by webheart (I thought I was helping by getting vaccinated but they say I didn’t help at all. )
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To: ConservativeMind
True Christians will not be deluded, or will wake up after the delusion starts. We are either in the delusion, or we are close!

2 Thessalonians 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
37 posted on 11/30/2021 3:23:14 PM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Wallace T.

A few radio hosts, like Dan Bongino and another host from the same network, were vaxxed and boosted. Still got COVID.


38 posted on 11/30/2021 3:23:34 PM PST by madison10
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

That is for mosquitoes.


39 posted on 11/30/2021 3:23:53 PM PST by webheart (I thought I was helping by getting vaccinated but they say I didn’t help at all. )
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To: Recovering_Democrat
Christians are the problem

Christians, Evangelicals in particular, are labeled as “the problem”. This is something I’ve said for 40 years…in the End, Christians will be viewed as the source of all problems (like Jews in Europe) but I didn’t know how. Now I do.
40 posted on 11/30/2021 3:25:46 PM PST by TxAg1981
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