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In reply to the discussion: Study: You Can't Change an Anti-Vaxxer's Mind [View all]Blanks
(4,835 posts)76. Sometimes people are paid to be irrational...
For example: if you chose the clergy as your occupation and 'lost the faith'. Do you leave behind what you know and start over in a new field after 30 years?
I'm sure it's the same with climate deniers. If you got a job right out of school being a climate denier and you're making good money at it. Do you risk pissing off some of the most powerful people in the world by coming clean? I think that would be tough.
People become invested in their beliefs (regardless if what those beliefs are) and sometimes it's difficult to allow the truth to come to light.
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How happy do you think parents were, in the late 50's, when a polio vaccine became available...
SidDithers
Oct 2014
#17
I was born in '64. I know how happy parents were about the polio, MMR and other vaccines.
REP
Oct 2014
#22
I also had the smallpox vac and was happy to get it. I have met people who survived smallpox.
Shrike47
Oct 2014
#106
Everyone that I know who has not vaccinated their children has a Masters degree or higher
Tumbulu
Oct 2014
#57
Steve Jobs was similar to an antivaxer. He waited to cure himself and then it was too late.
randome
Oct 2014
#153
Too many times people that are enormously successful in one facet of their lives believe they
Ikonoklast
Oct 2014
#183
Which explains why so many successful parents fall for the anti-vax bullshit.
zappaman
Oct 2014
#184
And it seems many such as those parents are the ones with "Indigo Children".
Ikonoklast
Oct 2014
#186
Weary sigh. The two sources I've seen promoting that meme are Dr. Nancy Snyderman & Dr. Paul Offit.
proverbialwisdom
Oct 2014
#185
not in this case. this anti vaccine shit is also a problem with college educated upper middleclass
La Lioness Priyanka
Oct 2014
#122
But everyone on DU wants to thump their chest and claim it is only the fundamentalists
Tumbulu
Oct 2014
#135
no, this is the lefts version of climate change denial. i feel like i wrote an op about this
La Lioness Priyanka
Oct 2014
#150
Some one just has to give up on, logic fails on them. One hopes that with their idiocracy they
RKP5637
Oct 2014
#4
They don't like to be compared to a cult, but that's what it looks like to me. eom
Blanks
Oct 2014
#32
Mumps causes sterility. The Illuminati don't want the kids of smart people like you to reproduce...
hunter
Oct 2014
#87
I was engaged in extensive discussions on Facebook on the 'CDC whistleblower' story...
Blanks
Oct 2014
#29
So, if you can't actually change their minds, why spend so much effort trying to?
Electric Monk
Oct 2014
#34
Google allows you to know your allies & their shifting rationalizations. Do their arguments hold up?
proverbialwisdom
Oct 2014
#113
I'd prefer another more serious unedited interview w Dr. Melinda Wharton but I haven't seen one.(nt)
proverbialwisdom
Apr 2015
#209
Probably not even then. I can easily see a paranoid conspiracy theory being spun...
Silent3
Oct 2014
#68
LOL. The US Vaccine Injury Compensation Court paid out $276,424,636.81 in fiscal year 2013.
ucrdem
Oct 2014
#79
I said "Regardless of the source of the injury." Please reread my post, thanks. nt
ucrdem
Oct 2014
#97
If there's a statement you'd like to challenge, please quote it directly, thanks. nt
ucrdem
Oct 2014
#104
No such connection therein stated or implied, as demonstrated once already. Please read carefully:
ucrdem
Oct 2014
#108
Unsupported & easily disproven talking points do not a thorough refutation make.
ucrdem
Oct 2014
#152
Since 1989, the US Vaccine Injury Compensation Court has paid $2,857,926,807.60 in damages.
ucrdem
Oct 2014
#81
every parent is given information about the vaccine injury fund when they consent to vaccination.
missingthebigdog
Oct 2014
#134
$2,857,926,807.60 in vaccine injury damage awards should give you your answer. nt
ucrdem
Oct 2014
#154
You really don't understand the difference between science and courts of any kind, do you?
HuckleB
Oct 2014
#161
Are you from Maine? Seen this Op-Ed? Don't be afraid to read in full & please check out links, too.
proverbialwisdom
Oct 2014
#92
Here on DU, one's decisions about one's body belong to the Pompous Brigade,
closeupready
Oct 2014
#93
Chris Mooney is a 37 yo Yalie; here's an older Yalie, Dan Olmsted. Each earned BA degree in English.
proverbialwisdom
Oct 2014
#98
The editorializing in Mooney's article is unsupported & offensive. The study is worth reading, OTOH.
proverbialwisdom
Oct 2014
#126
Do you regard as problematic everyone on earth except those following the exact 2014 CDC schedule?
proverbialwisdom
Oct 2014
#101
I like accuracy. Please point out a concrete example of "misdirection/half-truths about vaccination"
proverbialwisdom
Oct 2014
#116
CDC Whistleblower Text Exchange With Mrs. Wakefield: “Your husband’s career was unjustly damaged..."
proverbialwisdom
Oct 2014
#124
Keep trying. Wakefield is a fraud and continues to be a dangerous asshat...
SidDithers
Oct 2014
#125
AUTISM SPEAKS: Regressive Autism Reported Twice as Often among African American Children
proverbialwisdom
Oct 2014
#138
Anti-vax bullshit should get a poster banned, under the Crazy Talk part of the TOS...
SidDithers
Oct 2014
#149
Dr Gorski read the following & provided comments. Skim it, skip the parts you regard as insufferable
proverbialwisdom
Oct 2014
#166
#CDCwhistleblower #hearthiswell - unreported in the MSM, but not credible? Really? (nt)
proverbialwisdom
Oct 2014
#174
Worth the automatic hide and thread lock-out for citing blacklisted site, HuckleB; this is tedious.
proverbialwisdom
Oct 2014
#171
Why are you spamming debunked nonsense, and making baseless claims about other items?
HuckleB
Oct 2014
#173
My youngest brother got measles and chicken pox at the same time. He almost died.
appleannie1
Oct 2014
#103
Yes, Quarantine all those who should be vaccinated and are not. They pose a risk to public health
on point
Oct 2014
#190
You misunderstand. The can leave quarantine anytime they like. Get vaccinated or get sick.
on point
Oct 2014
#199
If one does not challenge their claims, those who do not know enough can be conned.
HuckleB
Oct 2014
#175
Are you calling these Harvard & other MDs baseless names & suggesting they should be made pariahs?
proverbialwisdom
Oct 2014
#207
Seems it would take plenty convincing for someone to even become an anti-vaxxer in the first place
JonLP24
Oct 2014
#200
All Anti Vaxers should be sentenced to spend at least one day in the late fifties.
alphafemale
Oct 2014
#205