Clearly it's not based in science, no one in this thread has claimed that. As for the list of negative traits you mention, none of those are incompatible with

Clearly it's not based in science, no one in this thread has claimed that. As for the list of negative traits you mention, none of those are incompatible with distrust of a corrupt system. So I'm not sure what your point is. I can only assume that you think every anti-vaxxer would still be an anti-vaxxer even if the medical community had a 100% sterling record on everything and education was perfect. While that might certainly be true for some of them (Christian scientists and such), I have a hard time generalizing that to the movement as a whole.