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> "These fancy educated people in their ivory towers telling me what to do with my children...". I have seen college educated people including those with adva
by rdtsc 8y ago
> "These fancy educated people in their ivory towers telling me what to do with my children...".
I have seen college educated people including those with advanced degrees who just as easily if not more so pedal anti-vaxxing bullshit. No, they are not scientists, but they and their peers would consider themselves intellectuals.
> you should simply defer to the critical mass of thousands of people with doctorates
I noticed a paradox in that people who have doctorates in unrelated fields just as easily decide that they can research on their own and other doctors might just not be as "smart". Unlike flat earth, contrails and other such bullshit, anti-vaxxing does seem to attract educated people as well as uneducated ones.
Even if you read the article, I wouldn't consider Washington state as the epicenter of anti-intellectualism in US. Quite the opposite I would say.
- lotsofpulp 8y agoWe shouldn’t let someone who doesn’t understand evolution and probability to consider themselves educated. Those concepts should be required to be learned in high school, and not be able to pass without them.
- rdtsc 8y ago> We shouldn’t let someone who doesn’t understand evolution Agree yeah. The difficult part is that a lot of these people think they understand evolution. Overall Clark County, WA doesn't seem to be a hotbed of uneducated people, about 30% of adults have college degrees there which is about average for US as well I think. At least it's not as simple as pointing and saying "Ah, look only 5% of people there went to college of course they be anti-intellectual with all the associate risks of following conspiracy theories" but it seems something more complex is happening there.