@HeerJeet People act like all scientists immune to anti-vax; friend sent me this pub-med article by anti-vax sci: http://1.usa.gov/TOYeTp
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@HeerJeet ...which is why we need cultural explanations like yours; it's not just about pure scientific ignorance.
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@HeerJeet: My thoughts on the Emersonian roots of the anti-vaxxer movement, now in storify form: https://storify.com/JeetHeer1/emerson-american-individualism-and-the-anti-vaxxer …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet Too abstract. Lots of people have decent reasons to mistrust the often abused authority of doctors. -
@HeerJeet A doctor coerces you into an unneeded caesarean so she can make yogalates. Then tells you you absolutely must vax. Why trust her? - Show replies
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@HeerJeet woah, this is the first bit of your intellectual history that I really disagree with. Winthrop idea is intensely communitarianThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet Emerson and Thoreau disdain that kind of individual-to-group responsibility. Their secessionism is a radical individualism.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet Interesting, but "sessionist" seems like the wrong word for the transcendentalists. You can call them individualists, certainly...Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet too many comments for me to read, but is it worth thinking of the profoundly asocial experience of modern (esp. US) mothering? - Show replies
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