b) You have mis-identified the problem. The root of the anti-vaxxer thing is one (1) paper which is known to have been faked. The reason facts don't work is that it's not about facts. A great many people have never learned to distinguish between the functioning of their emotions and the functioning of their reason. "You can't reason someone out of something they weren't reasoned into."
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Date: Wednesday, 5 March 2014 04:57 pm (UTC)b) You have mis-identified the problem. The root of the anti-vaxxer thing is one (1) paper which is known to have been faked. The reason facts don't work is that it's not about facts.
A great many people have never learned to distinguish between the functioning of their emotions and the functioning of their reason. "You can't reason someone out of something they weren't reasoned into."