Denying the Facts: Holocaust Denial and Vaccine Hesitancy
Similarities, Differences and Implications
Recorded on Tuesday, January 26, 2021
In honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Lecture and Q&A Recording
Join Deborah Lipstadt, PhD and Walt Orenstein, MD as they discuss facts, denial, the Holocaust, misinformation and contemporary medicine. No less than the power of evidence, testimony, experience and authority are at stake. Weaving together their respective expertise on the Holocaust and vaccines, Dr. Lipstadt and Dr. Orenstein will illumine how and why that historical watershed continues to be significant for today’s physical and social health.
Moderated by Jonathan K. Crane, Raymond F. Schinazi Scholar in Bioethics and Jewish Thought
Resources
- United States Holocaust Museum & Memorial
- Center for Medicine After the Holocaust
- Medical Experiments of the Holocaust and Nazi Medicine
- Nuremberg Trials Project
- Eugenics Archive Timeline
- Bibliography on Medicine and the Holocaust
- Vaccines don’t save lives. Vaccinations save lives.
- AMA Journal of Ethics – Legacies of the Holocaust in Health Care