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Antivaxxers: how do you convert them

Season 1

Vaccine hesitancy is running rampant. Today we explain why Facebook is causing it, tips to convert anti-vaxxers and the POWER OF EMPATHY (which can obviously be really hard at times).

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WHAT DID WE LEARN THIS WEEK

7:08 - Would you save 1 human over 100 dogs?

13:21 - There are no animals on land that do not have a left and right side of their body that isn’t a mirror image of each other

STUDYTIME

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