"Anti-vaccination" has now fully replaced "creationism" as the go-to example of a position that is contrary to scientific consensus. I understand how it happened, but it's not a good shift, since the two positions, while inaccurate, emerge from very different cognitive errors.
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Here's a bit more about what I mean when I speak of antivaxxer's fear of bodily contamination.https://respectfulinsolence.com/2017/08/10/contamination-requiring-ritual-purification-superstitious-concepts-at-the-heart-of-antivaccine-beliefs/ …
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There's also at the core of antivaccine belief the idea that vaccination is a competing religion to that of the antivaxxers. I kid you now. This sort of rhetoric is everywhere in antivaccine literature.https://respectfulinsolence.com/2017/12/01/quoth-the-antivaxer-vaccination-is-a-religion-quoth-orac-nice-projection-there/ …
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Sure—these are parallels I've talked about myself. But there's a large number of people who are just scared of being injured by vaccines because they've heard stories about people getting hurt, full stop. Error of risk assessment, not purity/impurity.
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That sounds more like what we call the “vaccine-averse,” not antivaxxers. Being antivax goes beyond merely being afraid of vaccines.
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