If you can’t separate facts from an emotional response when it comes to evaluating things like vaccinations (and Global Warming) and you are relying on what someone else (who has no science, no background, no data) told you then it isn’t science, it is a religion.
If your fears and emotions override actual facts, or make you ignore actual facts, then you can’t make a rational judgment.
Just because you heard it from your coworker who heard it from someone at her Yoga class who heard it from her hairdresser who heard it from her roommate who got it from her landlord’s wife who heard it from someone at church doesn’t make it true…..
Depends on where the “facts” are coming from.
If there is money and prestige associated any fact can be bought.
Who do you trust to be honest?
Masks? 6 feet? Carbon is bad(It is good)? Processed foods go9d, whole natural foods bad?Etc. etc.
So where do you get your “Facts” from?
I get my information the same way everyone else can. What I do with it, interpret it, is up to me. Has worked fine the 42 years I have been a legal adult.
As you say.
But if you have a closed mind, you might never learn the truth.
But don’t let that stop you from being a fool about this subject.
My father was a statistician with the EPA for years. He was firmly convinced that man made global warming was complete BS. Why? Because the environmental scientists at the EPA couldn’t create a statistically valid experiment to save their lives. They would present him with their plans, he would review it from a statisical validity perspective, and offer recommendations on how to make their experiments statically valid. Inevitably, the environmentalists would look at his recommendations, and decide they were too far down the wrong road to change now, and ignore what he said. The would run their useless experiments, write a paper on the irrelevant data, and stamp it “US EPA says…” whatever nonsensical conclusions they wanted.
But sure, trust the science.
And that’s the point, innit?
Do you trust the science, even studies from the Autism folks themselves?
Or do you trust what you heard on FaceBook from someone who you don’t even know, who says they hard it from their Hairdresser who heard it from their landlord who heard it from their wife’s girlfriends sister, who heard it on TikTok….
Thing is, the Ant- Vaxxers don’t even vet their data. They BELIEVE and therefore they think it must be true. worse, they repeat absolute bullshit “The Amish don’t have autistic Kids!” (They do, I’ve met some of ’em) and other absolute bullshit that fits their belief, but has no basis in fact AND THEY NEVER BOTHER TO CHECK THE TRUTH OF IT.