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There’s a reason why my nursing colleagues have a (relatively) high degree of vaccine hesitancy and are losing their jobs - a proportion of them are just not ca

There’s a reason why my nursing colleagues have a (relatively) high degree of vaccine hesitancy and are losing their jobs - a proportion of them are just not capable of understanding the science and think that their experience (and Facebook feeds) are worth more than actual data. All of my anti vax leaning social media content comes from those colleagues (although let’s be clear it’s a small percentage and like all broad sweeping statements it applies in general only)

starkd 5y ago
Not capable of understanding science? that's incredibly arrogant statement to make. Nurses study the science as part of their accreditation. I could just as easily say doctors are so busy treating patients and reading up on the latest CDC guidelines and bureaucracy they don't have time to read the latest science and explore any skepticism. But it's essential to science.
- robbiep 5y ago
  And if i didn’t know so many of them I would agree with you. However after numerous experiences beginning with the midwife who explained to me that demonstrating the plantar reflex too many times would result in the child having a stutter. Just one example of 10,000, however it is by no means definitive of the profession - what you don’t see however is 10%+ of doctors refusing the vaccine or sprouting nonsense. I don’t know what exactly point you’re trying to refute - nurses are practical but a proportion of them have no scientific capacity. A proportion that is a logarithmic difference from their doctor or allied health colleagues. And I basically went to slightly less lengths to caveat this in my previous post, but apparently you’re a pedant
  - starkd 5y ago
    wow. It's almost like you meant to reply to some other post. That's not at all what this thread is talking about. Dr. Campbell was not a midwife. He was a teaching nurse. He's accustomed to reading these studies. Not sure how you equate him with anti-vax. He's adamantly pro-vax.
    - robbiep 5y ago
      And that is all irrelevant because I am not at all talking about whoever this Dr Campbell person is who I have never heard of until you brought them up in your earlier thread. My original post is completely seperate to any context of him and it should be read as such- but at least you’re finally becoming capable of parsing my posts

starkd 5y ago

Not capable of understanding science? that's incredibly arrogant statement to make. Nurses study the science as part of their accreditation. I could just as easily say doctors are so busy treating patients and reading up on the latest CDC guidelines and bureaucracy they don't have time to read the latest science and explore any skepticism. But it's essential to science.

robbiep 5y ago
And if i didn’t know so many of them I would agree with you. However after numerous experiences beginning with the midwife who explained to me that demonstrating the plantar reflex too many times would result in the child having a stutter. Just one example of 10,000, however it is by no means definitive of the profession - what you don’t see however is 10%+ of doctors refusing the vaccine or sprouting nonsense. I don’t know what exactly point you’re trying to refute - nurses are practical but a proportion of them have no scientific capacity. A proportion that is a logarithmic difference from their doctor or allied health colleagues. And I basically went to slightly less lengths to caveat this in my previous post, but apparently you’re a pedant
- starkd 5y ago
  wow. It's almost like you meant to reply to some other post. That's not at all what this thread is talking about. Dr. Campbell was not a midwife. He was a teaching nurse. He's accustomed to reading these studies. Not sure how you equate him with anti-vax. He's adamantly pro-vax.
  - robbiep 5y ago
    And that is all irrelevant because I am not at all talking about whoever this Dr Campbell person is who I have never heard of until you brought them up in your earlier thread. My original post is completely seperate to any context of him and it should be read as such- but at least you’re finally becoming capable of parsing my posts