So It Seems the Anti-Vax Crowd

[Mudhammam]

I hope you can appreciate the difference between being skeptical based on evidence, and being skeptical based on direct, total defiance of every piece of available evidence. The anti-vaxxers are the latter category; there is no evidence to support any of their assertions, while all the evidence contradicts them, and yet still they hold that position. Skepticism is fine, but when you have no reason to be skeptical, then what you are being is irrational.

Of course. I'm not saying people shouldn't get vaccines or that, as Chas says, they're not proven highly effective. I'm saying people have good reason not to trust the medical establishment or the government so when the focus is pressuring people to get vaccinated (not coercing them) it should primarily involve restoring their own credibility, conducting better efforts to inform the public, and dispelling false information.