The media also plays a role in altering people's beliefs about the association between vaccinations and autism. Especially when it comes to new scientific findings, the media plays a huge role in misrepresenting scientific research. The media tends to leave out important information about new scientific findings too. “First, the media can inadvertently oversimplify, misrepresent, or overdramatize scientific results” (Lewandowsky). The media did this with information regarding vaccines and autism. In my view, the media failed to do research on vaccines causing autism. If the media would of done more research on the theory of vaccines possibly causing autism, they would of realized that there is a lack of scientific evidence to support that theory.
