How to Play
Cranky Uncle Vaccine teaches you how to spot misleading tricks or fallacies that are often seen in misinformation about vaccines. As well as finding out about misinformation tricks and learning facts about vaccines, players also get to practise spotting misinformation through fun and challenging quizzes. The more tricks you complete and quizzes you answer, the more cranky points you earn! The more points you earn, the crankier Cranky Uncle gets!
Characters
Cranky Uncle
Meet Cranky Uncle who thinks he knows better than anyone else, especially medical experts! He’ll let you know about the misinformation tricks he uses.
Healthcare Worker
Meet our medical expert who cares about the health of her patients and wants you to know the truth about the benefits of vaccination.
Tricks
The Cranky Uncle Vaccine game explains ten of the most common misleading tricks (fallacies) found in vaccine misinformation.
False cause
False cause assumes that because two things happen around the same time, one must have caused the other.
Conspiracy theories
Conspiracy theories suggest a secret plan exists to implement a evil scheme such as hiding a truth.
Pick and choose
Pick and choose involves only choosing certain facts that support an argument but ignoring other facts that don’t.
Natural is best
Natural is best argues that anything natural is better than medicine.
Evil intent
Assuming that the motivations behind any presumed conspiracy are evil.
Personal stories
Personal stories rely on personal experience or isolated examples instead of sound arguments or compelling evidence.
Personal attack
Personal attack involves attacking a person or group instead of addressing their arguments.
Misrepresentation
Misrepresentation involves distorting the science or an opponent’s position.
Impossible expectations
Impossible expectations demands unrealistic standards of certainty before acting on the science.
Fake experts
A fake expert is an unqualified person or institution presented as a source of credible information.
