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Podcast: PRay TeLL, Dr. Hash
Episode: 167 Anti-Vaxx
Description: Everyone wants control, and leveraging society's reverence towards children is a common method to grab it. Combine that with sanctimonious posturing & conspiracy theories and the anti-vaccine movement explains itself. The attraction to pseudoscience is also easy to understand because people want to think they know special information that gives them an advantage, and true science is difficult with lots of people having superior knowledge. Pseudoscience evens the playing field by making it subjective thereby preempting expertise.
There are many unsubstantiated claims as to why someone would deny their children the protection of vaccination but the most influential...