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>The article also cites the example of vaccine denialism which is much more pervasive on the political left Is it? Or is that how you perceive it? Because vacc
by Brockenstein 8y ago
>The article also cites the example of vaccine denialism which is much more pervasive on the political left
Is it? Or is that how you perceive it? Because vaccine denialism as far as I've seen doesn't abide by political alignment. All it really takes is a poor understanding of science and history and living in a world where modern medicine has been so successful that vaccines are a victim of their own success. Where a lot of the people alive today, in the U.S., can't even comprehend even comprehend diseases being a real threat which makes vaccines seem kind of unnecessary.
Throw in some autism scares and any other BS you can manufacture and a plurality of people from all sorts of beliefs and backgrounds who buy into some wonkass bullshit out of fear and ignorance. And no political party has a lock on that demographic...
- emodendroket 8y agoI'd say it maps better to some political tendencies than others; by necessity American political parties are coalitions of a ton of tendencies with plenty of differences among them.