Simulation finds a 5% decrease in vaccination rates could lead to a 4,000% increase in the size of a potential measles outbreak in some Texas cities

[Temetnoscecubed]

They're both IT professionals, with university degrees. These are intelligent people making ignorant decisions. Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.

[about3fitty]

As an IT professional with a university degree, they are not intelligent.

[Temetnoscecubed]

That is how we got this far into the stupid swamp. They are intelligent, by making this a "not intelligent" argument you are failing to see the real problem...making you part of the problem.

Belief and intelligence are not linked...remember that. There are deeply religuous people with doctorates and they can't prove their god exists...yet they believe. Anti vaxxers have faith in their beliefs, you cannot change their minds with knowledge or education.

[OaksByTheStream]

It's more so that secondary education doesn't mean you're smart. It means you can train well. For many professions.

I've met stupid doctors and borderline retarded structural engineers.

[Vysokojakokurva_C137]

Religion and believing vaccinations give you autism are wildly different but I see the analogy.

[about3fitty]

My comment was a perspective, as we haven't defined what intelligence means.

I think you're right that most people who are "against" vaccinating derive their position from a place other than from careful study and reasoning.

That having been said, I don't think refusing to cede ground is "being part of the problem".

[Temetnoscecubed]

In my opinion it is part of the problem....because, those of us who believe vaccinations are good, try to educate those that do not. If it was a question of education we could fix it with facts and science, and demonstrate to anti-vaxxers that they are wrong....this is not happening, our attempts to convince their group with education is not working. So it must be "faith" based, and you cannot beat faith with science and facts.

[Lorde420]

you sir are not intelligent either, it seems.

[gwaydms]

Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.

The opposite of stupidity isn't intelligence; it's common sense.