This article hints at, but doesn't fully articulate, the irony of two apparently very different disciplines applied upon each other. Vaccine-resistance, as a m

This article hints at, but doesn't fully articulate, the irony of two apparently very different disciplines applied upon each other. Vaccine-resistance, as a mental-state looks akin to the immune system, which normally confers disease immunity but, when running amok can trigger allergies. It is implied that some medical sociologists now consider vaccine-resistant thinking as a kind of allergy to benign societal forces and are planning a social vaccination program to eradicate such wrong-headedness. As an aside, the word meme was used near to its original sense - as Dawkins defined it - in the last chapter of his classic "The Selfish Gene".