On NPR last night, they were reporting on the antivax movement, and one of the women they interviewed copped to this explicitly. She said that a big part of how she defined herself was as a "crunchy granola mother," and she was very much wrapped up in that scene. She said that even though she had mixed feelings on the vaccination front, she felt like giving into "modern industrialized medicine" would have been a betrayal of her social media friends and her identity. So, she refused vaccines for her kid. Years later, her daughter was diagnosed as autistic anyway. So now she feels she has proven that its not the vaccins that are causing autism, but something else, and she's now had her daughter and subsequent children vaccinated. Way to go scientific method!!!Kraken wrote:That's true. It's a lifestyle choice as much as a judgment about consequences. So how do you counter that, aside from exploiting the fear angle? Facts are powerless either way...this is all about emotion and identity.Blackhawk wrote:It isn't just fear, it is ego.
Not enough for this crap.