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You have been very agile and attentive. Everything has been handled in a very professional manner. It is noticeable that you have a lot of experience working with this type of project. Ward Conflicts of interests have been at the core of public debate over health and medicine for decades. Social scientists have analysed the diversity of definitions of this label as well as the policies put in place to regulate the relationships between medical researchers and various actors such as private corporations.
But little attention has been paid to the way the public define and use this label. In this article, we assess what the French public consider to be a conflict of interest for medical researchers. These situations concerned medical researchers' relationships with economic actors but also with politicians and the media, with or without financial compensation for the researcher.
We identified three main group profiles in terms of respondents' conception of what counts as a conflict of interest: i considering that only money matters in the labelling of a given situation as a conflict of interest, ii considering that any relationship with economic, media and political actors constitutes a conflict of interest i. These three groups differed in terms of social composition as well as respondents' relationships to science, politics, and the health care system.
The authors assumed that refusing this vaccine became a stigma, and they investigated potential public stigma toward unvaccinated people among the French population. A cluster analysis was used to obtain contrasted attitudinal profiles, and the authors investigated associated factors with logistic regressions. Findings: Regarding attitudes toward unvaccinated people, a majority of respondents supported several pejorative statements, and a significant minority also endorsed social rejection attitudes.
