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And yet there always has been: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccine_hesitancy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccine_hesitancy Only that today, with Social Med

• shereadsthenews 8y ago
  I can't decide whether to blame social media or traditional media. Sure, social media is currently a cesspool of antivaxxers, but the latest wave got started in the late 90s through newspapers, magazines, TV news, and especially daytime TV talk shows. These outlets are now glad that we don't remember their role in the problem.
• bjt2n3904 8y ago
  My point is, they don't have to spread their message. We'll spread it for them. It looks something like this. "Hi, I've never actually met a flat earther, but here's a comically bad argument they might make. Now, listen to me mouthbreathe into my microphone for the next 4 hours while I do a point by point exhaustive takedown video on why the world is indeed, a sphere. Join me next week for my next 4 hour installment where I continue to debate arguments they might make if I actually knew someone who was a flat earther." The video will convince 1 person the world is round. For another 10 people, however, they will see resistance to their weakly held idea as evidence that they're believing the correct thing. Counter intuitively, this makes them grasp it tighter, like a Chinese Finger Trap. The harder you fight them, the more solid their viewpoint gets.