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> "Unfortunately, I don't think the paper provides any information on how training in different academic subjects correlates with vaccine hesitancy—a PhD can b
by crusty 5y ago
> "Unfortunately, I don't think the paper provides any information on how training in different academic subjects correlates with vaccine hesitancy—a PhD can be in molecular biology just as much as it can be in comparative linguistics."
Assuming the survey results valid, this is what I latched onto. The act of getting a PhD may inflate ones sense of intellect and reasoning universally while actual knowledge and valid expertise is very domain dependent, leading to a more self-assured and intransigent decision making regime.