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No. They are not striving to follow the science. They are striving to find evidence that supports their confirmation bias. It's like you said: they're not fin

• CWuestefeld 5y ago
  Maybe you should go back and read what I quoted. In both cases, the people said that they did eventually find what they needed, and decided to do the vaccination. These two people were complaining not that they couldn't find anti-vax information. They were complaining that they couldn't find anybody directly refuting anti-vax claims, because those anti-vax claims had (assumedly) been censored. But let's assume that you're correct. Wouldn't it be better to let the skeptic find some posting from a person who wrongly believed that, say, the vaccine causes sterility; and when they go read that (maybe just to bolster their own beliefs) they also see the reply from someone who addresses the skeptic's incorrect beliefs? If we prevent our hypothetical skeptic from finding that page that made him feel safe, he wouldn't have gotten to the counter-argument at all.
  • judahmeek 5y ago
    > Wouldn't it be better to let the skeptic find some posting from a person who wrongly believed that, say, the vaccine causes sterility; and when they go read that (maybe just to bolster their own beliefs) they also see the reply from someone who addresses the skeptic's incorrect beliefs? No, because... "The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it." ~ Albert Einstein