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I was thinking the other day whether whether the world-wide effort to vaccinate as many people as possible will be a major blow to the anti-vax movement - in th

I was thinking the other day whether whether the world-wide effort to vaccinate as many people as possible will be a major blow to the anti-vax movement - in that once it is shown that there's no negative consequences of so many people taking a vaccine. E.g. no increase in autism rates. Fingers crossed.

pb7 6y ago
I think you'll find that data or lack thereof wasn't what was driving anti-vaxxers. :)
fweespeech 6y ago
You cannot reason people out of a position they did not reason themselves into. These people are not thinking logically and reacting to facts, they are reacting to what influencers in their sphere say and accepting that appeal to authority as fact.
macintux 6y ago
7 billion people taking a vaccine; some percentage of them will die or experience significant illness after. Even if the two events aren’t related, the anti-vaxxers will seize on the timing and blame the vaccine.
- carlmr 6y ago
  Exactly, that's also where anti-vaxx started. Kids get diagnosed with autism usually just after getting their last childhood vaccines. Correlation is enough.
  - _ph_ 6y ago
    It should also be noted, that shortly after getting vaccinated, most children start to talk! :)
hutzlibu 6y ago
Well, just check about Polio, which is allmost erradicated and what Antivaxxers think about it. (or rather don't)
mchusma 6y ago
I suspect it will hurt the anti-vax movement. There wasn't a lot of Anti-Vax activity before 1980 because so many people watched diseases get eradicated by vaccines in realtime. But, I don't expect it to make a giant difference :(
Sohcahtoa82 6y ago
You're assuming facts matter to anti-vaxxers. It doesn't matter who reports the data. FDA, CDC, some other TLA. Some mommy blog will claim that autism rates are up 25% since we started distributing the COVID vaccines and the anti-vaxxers will eat it right up.

pb7 6y ago

I think you'll find that data or lack thereof wasn't what was driving anti-vaxxers. :)

fweespeech 6y ago

You cannot reason people out of a position they did not reason themselves into. These people are not thinking logically and reacting to facts, they are reacting to what influencers in their sphere say and accepting that appeal to authority as fact.

macintux 6y ago

7 billion people taking a vaccine; some percentage of them will die or experience significant illness after. Even if the two events aren’t related, the anti-vaxxers will seize on the timing and blame the vaccine.

carlmr 6y ago
Exactly, that's also where anti-vaxx started. Kids get diagnosed with autism usually just after getting their last childhood vaccines. Correlation is enough.
- _ph_ 6y ago
  It should also be noted, that shortly after getting vaccinated, most children start to talk! :)

hutzlibu 6y ago

Well, just check about Polio, which is allmost erradicated and what Antivaxxers think about it. (or rather don't)

mchusma 6y ago

I suspect it will hurt the anti-vax movement. There wasn't a lot of Anti-Vax activity before 1980 because so many people watched diseases get eradicated by vaccines in realtime. But, I don't expect it to make a giant difference :(

Sohcahtoa82 6y ago

You're assuming facts matter to anti-vaxxers. It doesn't matter who reports the data. FDA, CDC, some other TLA. Some mommy blog will claim that autism rates are up 25% since we started distributing the COVID vaccines and the anti-vaxxers will eat it right up.