(February 7, 2015 at 3:12 pm)Esquilax Wrote: The trouble is that human beings, especially those who take pride in their counter-stances, don't really work that way. This issue is an emotional thing to the anti-vaxxers, confirmed by their incredibly basic knowledge of medicine and good old Dunning-Kruger bullshit, not something that can be resolved by additional information. Frankly, it's a position that a lot of them are going to hold onto no matter what they're told, because they instinctively mistrust the scientific and medical establishments, convinced they have some ulterior motive.That's deeply depressing. But perhaps it might be the case that the anti-vaxers have done a better job marketing their point of view in conjunction with the mistrust created by pharmaceutical companies that want to drug everything, and therein lies the bigger problem?
Case in point: the Wakefield report that spurred the anti-vax movement into existence has been rebutted at every level, from the factual case behind it to the motivations of the reporter, even to the extent that Wakefield himself lost his medical license due to professional dishonesty and abuse of children in that very report... and yet here we are. The anti-vax movement still exists, still insistent that vaccines are harmful: tell me again how informing the public and dispelling false information will quell the anti-vaxxers?
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza
