For centuries on end, the people grounded in common sense have been an annoyance to the “educated folks.”
STORY AT-A-GLANCE A recent “study” suggests that vaccine skeptics are, ummm, likely to struggle with problem-solving and to demonstrate absolutist thinking, political conservatism, and xenophobia.
Ironically, blaming the “village yokels” and “tradition defenders” has been a staple on the menu of psychological manipulation by the elites—some of those dirty tricks have been, unfortunately, deeply internalized.
We are all familiar with the frustration of trying to convince our loved ones to use their common sense and look at facts. The frustration reduces significantly once we quit the “missionary” mode, do our job with love and patience, and leave the rest to the higher powers (however we personally believe). Dim-witted Anti-vaxxers?
The science is in! I am using the word “science” loosely here—but a study, published in Environmental Research and Public Health, and authored by Alice Cancer, Carola Salvi, Alessandro Antonietti, and Paola Iannello, has concluded that the vaccine skeptics are, you know, the rigid folks who are not particularly bright and not particularly endowed with the ability to solve problems….