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Not the headline we need to quell the vaccine conspiracy theories..

• joe_the_user 6y ago
  Yeah, it's sad that this stuff has stopped being an incidental thing but rather a large factor in a lot of people's (mis)thinking. I don't know exactly what scientists should do about this.
• jb775 6y ago
  By vaccine conspiracy theories, I'm assuming you mean the aspect about microchips secretly being added to vaccines. But doesn't it actually add validity to the technological aspects of these concerns when a newly published paper details successfully adding 1 million microchips capable of injection into the human body? How wouldn't it? Obviously this doesn't touch on the nefarious underpinnings of the vaccine debate, but in what other scenario would presentation of new research validating the technological capabilities of something be a reason to scoff at? Sounds like a classic case of cognitive dissonance where you've been presented with fresh evidence that adds support to something contrary to your beliefs but are disregarding what's actually been presented and instead are digging your heels in.
  • Dylan16807 6y ago
    You seem to misunderstand. Yes, it does add a tiny bit of validity to the technical aspect. Which is a bad thing, because it encourages those people. Even worse, the headline sounds like it adds much more validity than it actually does, so the bad encouragement is magnified based on their lack of understanding. There is no cognitive dissonance in saying "ugh, those morons are going to act like this proves their entire claim right, when it actually takes the claim from being incorrect in 44 different ways to being incorrect in 'only' 43 and a half different ways". Nobody is disregarding the evidence here.
• rswail 6y ago
  No headlines will quell the equivalent of blind faith and religion.