There's a strong correlation between white supremacism and antivax. The link, I believe, is the shared tendency towards conspiracy theories. Crank magnetism, as @MarkHoofnagle called it.https://twitter.com/tweek75/status/1172475283045306368 …
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Replying to @dhenry251 @gorskon
Even smart people believe in conspiracy theories. It's not a reflection of unintelligence but motivated reasoning - our natural, social heuristics working as they have evolved to work. It's really more a failure to train people in critical thinking which inoculates against CT.
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Replying to @MarkHoofnagle @dhenry251
Indeed. In fact, intelligence tends to make one BETTER, not worse, at motivated reasoning.
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