Why do anti vaxxers think they are smarter than scientists and doctors?

Do they really make flattards look like geniuses in comparison? It's easier to shut down a flat-earther by pointing out unambiguous proof that we have concerning Earth's shape, and I'll give anti-vaxxers that vaccines need much more proof to be shown to be effective and each vaccine needs testing independent of what we do with another. But that's where my generosity will end, since we do have that testing and research and it very much shuts their argument down.

Anti-vaxxers think they're smarter because they cannot see past the flaws of the connections they view to be obvious. For example, some nefarious plot by insurance companies and Big Pharma to make people sicker, viewing the entities as nothing but evil. Granted, there is corruption there...but not involving vaccination. There is actual science to back up their usefulness and lack of harm for the general public, and honestly we can attribute certain corporations' interest in vaccination to the fact that sick people cost them more money than they can make off of these preventable illnesses.

Furthermore, they're susceptible to quacks who recognize how to make money off of their misunderstanding of science. They point to studies and statistics and portray them in a way that makes it look like vaccines do NOT help. Yes, polio rates did drop prior to the vaccination's introduction, and it does have to do with other factors...but the vaccination's introduction caused the drop to be sharper in decline and looking at worldwide rates you cannot make the same argument against the vaccination. In addition, many don't understand that autism rates are up because our diagnostic criteria is up, which naturally increases the number diagnosed. It's not mercury or thimerosal, which has been removed from most, but they ignore the studies because they believe in something more nefarious.

That seems to be a rather common trait among the so called "internet educated" as i have noticed.

The anti-vaxxer phenomenon is actually a melding of several prominent memes that circulate in the modern society, reinforced by pure stupidity.

1. Is that the so called "big pharma" and doctors care only about profits and are perfectly willing to poison millions of people for it.

2. Everything created artificially is unhealthy.

3. Personal experiences are more trustworthy then scientific studies because ordinary people are less likely to be complicit in conspiracies.

Combine all those factors, add a little stupidity. Suddenly a person is perfectly willing to trust a former pornstar who claimed that vaccines made her son autistic and that she healed him with crystals or some **** over actual scientific studies.

Fattards? You mean fat retards? Whozzat?

Something about human nature. People like to think they know esoteric truths that others don't. This makes them smarter, it makes them 'special'. You see this a LOT in religion, where people of faith think they're just wiser and more knowledgeable in their beliefs and that believing something else shows a person is less intelligent, less informed, etc.

Conspiracy theories are also in this category. For people to believe we're all being fooled by the govt. to pursue some plan they want to sneak past us. If you disagree, it means (to them) that you don't know what you're talking about and therefore not entitled to an opinion!

Was it Michelle Bachmann? I think it was. Who said in a debate that she knew vaccines caused autism. She was asked where she'd learned this and she said she met a woman in the parking lot after one of her events, who told her her daughter had become autistic after getting vaccinated. This is like Trump justifying lies by saying "Well that's what I'm hearing." It made her look pretty dumb!

IF theres anyone in the world to feel bad for, its every conspiracy nut EXCEPT anti vaccers

cause they gonna get it for being stupid

I overheard this anti vaxxer who was going to college for nursing. Uh oh.