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Record W4391562896 · doi:10.4324/9781003394006-21

Vaccine Refusals and Freedom of Religion

2024· book-chapter· en· W4391562896 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Carissima Mathen

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicVaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPolitical science

Abstract

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The COVID-19 pandemic upended not only health security but also assumptions about rights protection. In Canada, all orders of government have engaged in previously unthinkable policies, including closing provincial borders, restricting international travel, imposing curfews, and shuttering businesses and schools. Once the COVID vaccines arrived in late 2020, the focus understandably shifted to mass vaccination. After initial reluctance, Canadian governments overwhelmingly turned to proof of vaccination regimes as the “passport” back to normal activity. That decision collided with pre-existing anti-vax sentiment, disinformation systems, and extreme political polarization—creating significant resistance from some individuals and groups. Requiring vaccination as a precondition to social activity deeply implicates personal freedom and raises serious constitutional questions. One of the rights frequently raised in objection to vaccine mandates is freedom of religion. This chapter investigates the parameters for refusing a vaccine on the basis of religious conviction.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.005
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.013
Threshold uncertainty score0.034

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.005
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0030.012
Scholarly communication0.0030.003
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0020.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0080.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.018
GPT teacher head0.280
Teacher spread0.262 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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