> "If someone says "I don't know if vaccines are safe", I don't think that's an anti-vaxx stance." Eh - after hundreds of millions of doses I think it's functi

> "If someone says "I don't know if vaccines are safe", I don't think that's an anti-vaxx stance." Eh - after hundreds of millions of doses I think it's functionally equivalent most of the time. It's not a huge surprise to me - I've worked with otherwise intelligent people and then find out they're deeply religious or even creationist. Sure strictly speaking "I don't know if vaccines are safe" is different - but in practice there's not some deep level of analysis going on, people that don't like vaccines are just falling into cognitive bias and using motivated reasoning to dress it up. People are wildly inconsistent and many people believe insane things. Critical thinking and accuracy are not the strength of most of general humanity. Even those in favor of the vaccines didn't arrive there from reading about them for the most part - they just picked a tribe. Thankfully there's a small percentage of humanity that's pretty good at accuracy and they're working to save the rest of us.