> if you want to convince an anti-vaxer, you can't treat them like they're crazy, even if you have an impulse to judge. > You run the risk of creating a serio

> if you want to convince an anti-vaxer, you can't treat them like they're crazy, even if you have an impulse to judge. > You run the risk of creating a serious blowback effect, where your condescension drives them further away from accepting what you're trying to tell them. This is exactly what I am coming from too. In my few years in the programming community, one thing I have noticed is a large population of people who pursue science as a religion. (I mentally tag them the r/atheism crowd.) When you treat something as canon and go up on people's faces as to why they are stupid and wrong, you are not creating a productive discussion.