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> I wish scientists around the world spent more time on how to properly convince vaccine-skeptics that it's safe AND a good idea to take part. I completely dis
by curiousgal 6y ago
> I wish scientists around the world spent more time on how to properly convince vaccine-skeptics that it's safe AND a good idea to take part.
I completely disagree. I think part of why this anti-science attitude is prevalent is because people acknowledge it an try to respond to it. You should not engage in a conversation about whether vaccines cause autism or whether the earth is flat. You simply enact policies that enforce the right thing. Because this shouldn't be a discussion.
Responding to those people only validates their stance.
- 734129837261 6y agoThese people want the best, too, mostly. Education should ALWAYS be the go-to default in any situation. These people need to be educated, not ignored, nor ridiculed. Enforcing the "right thing" will alienate these people even more than they already are. They won't feel listened to and fall back into their echo-chambers even more.
- alvah 6y ago"You simply enact policies that enforce the right thing" That's a very naïve view of how science (and the world) works. Who gets to decide what "the right thing" is? What if they're later proven wrong, do their good intentions undo whatever damage is caused?
- curiousgal 6y agoYou're telling me the countries that require children to be vaccinated in order to go to schools are not doing the right thing?
- alvah 6y agoNo, I’m telling you forcing a bureaucrat’s idea of the right thing on everyone is fraught with problems.
- psychiatrist24 6y agoPersonally I think individual schools should have the right to demand vaccinations, but demanding every kid to be vaccinated to be allowed to school would not be the right thing, no. People who don't want to vaccinate should be allowed to seek institutions that school their kids without vaccinations.
- throwaway199997 6y agoYou're just a subhuman animal who gets knowledge from John Oliver.