Anti-Vaxxer Sympathy

[Aractus]

Go back and reread my post #57.  There aren't hard data there in terms of population percentages, but there are several links demonstrating the cultural penetration of the antivax movement here in America.

Plugging your ears and ignoring information presented you is no way to carry on a discussion. If you're going to ignore what is presented to you, or worse yet pretend it hasn't been presented, that says more about you than it does about the issue under discussion.

PT, unless I see data or evidence I don't believe it. I provided data showing that people opposed to vaccination are a tiny minority of those who miss an immunisation.

Peer-review research shows it too "Using the most recent data available for examining these issues in Australia, we found that the majority of incompletely immunised infants (in 2004) did not have a mother who disagreed with immunisation. Barriers to immunisation are heterogeneous, suggesting a need for tailored interventions." and "Overall, 9.3% (473) of infants were incompletely immunised; of these just 16% had mothers who disagreed with immunisation." (Pearce et. al., 2015).

Stop making assumptions and pulling "facts" out of your ass. You didn't provide anything academic in post #57. All you provided was internet articles, including Wikipedia. It doesn't matter what the size of their media presence is, it matters how many people don't immunise their children because they are opposed to vaccination. And you haven't been able to tell me that number.

I've explained over and over again that it's a fucking tiny minority of people. It's nowhere close to 5% of the entire population. YOU AREN'T ENTITLED TO INVENT YOUR OWN GODDAMNED FACTS TO CITE. FOR EXAMPLE YOU SAID:

    "People who deliberately ignore the information about vaccinations aren't reachable."

BUT: "Prior research on vaccine attitude change suggests that it is difficult to persuade vaccination skeptics and that direct attempts to do so can even backfire. Here, we successfully countered people’s antivaccination attitudes by making them appreciate the consequences of failing to vaccinate their children (using information provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)." Horne et. al., 2015.