I'm mildly curious - are there any anti vaxxers who believe in climate change?

[needledriver]

I just wonder if it is possible for the same person to accept the overwhelming scientific consensus on anthropogenic climate change and yet reject the overwhelming scientific consensus on the benefits of vaccination.

[Codeine]

1. Tons.

Cognitive dissonance is very much a thing.

[MicaelS]

2. Of course.

The two are unrelated. Remember, people are thinking about their children's safety first, so emotion can override logic.

[hlthe2b]

3. There are really two sets of anti-vaxxers--one is more generally ignorant and tends to include

the less educated and lower SES groups. However, as is evident in very progressive states like WA, OR, CO (especially around Boulder)--where philosophic exemptions and lower vaccine rates have become a real problem, these anti-vaxxers are different. This group is well educated, upper middle class-upper class on the SES scale and are well educated and generally believe in science and are generally educated about vaccines too--only that education is based on the propagation of "woo science" that anything that is not deemed to be "natural" is inherently risky. They are into healthy lifestyles but for some reason, are very taken in by "alternative medicine" (which, of course, includes some beneficial treatments with actual scientific validation, but others are like the snake oils of years past).


The problem for states trying to crack down is that it is the latter group, who are likewise politically connected, that form the strongest challenge.

[tymorial]

4. Love it. Lets do this.

[Sinistrous]

5. Yes.

but they are a dying breed.

[Voltaire2]

6. Yes.

And if you think all anti-vacs are rwnj have another thought.