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By vaccine skepticism, I mean biologically-ignorant people who latch onto vaccines as their cause du jour. Yes, there are educated people and educated reasons
by ethbr1 1y ago
By vaccine skepticism, I mean biologically-ignorant people who latch onto vaccines as their cause du jour.
Yes, there are educated people and educated reasons to be skeptical of vaccines.
But in practice, at least in America, that represents a small portion of the entire vaccine skeptical community.
Skeptical seems an accurate description too, as most of them couch their beliefs in "Well, I'm just asking the question"ism.
Through and through anti-vaccine people are a smaller group.
- ifyoubuildit 1y ago> biologically-ignorant people What does this mean? People who don't know a lot about biology? That's effectively everyone who isn't a biologist (and probably even some who are), which is effectively everyone. > who latch onto vaccines as their cause du jour That sounds like more than skepticism to me. > But in practice, at least in America, that represents a small portion of the entire vaccine skeptical community. I have no way of evaluating whether this is true beyond gut feelings. Do you?