They do not want to learn about what really happens because if they did it will go against everything they were taught. Their beliefs are so ingrained that any argument or facts in the contrary will cause a knee-jerk reaction.

>>8957952
because stupid people are fucking sub-human scum

You also have to factor in how some people simply enjoy taking a minority side. Look at ICP, they made a ton of cash off it.

Its a kind of denialism. People would prefer to have something to blame, and the empathy inducing stories of anti-vaccine feed on that. Unfortunately, cold, hard science isn't really able to compete, and scientists often come off as arrogant or aloof.

>>8958170
anti-vaccine campaigners*

The correlation between Autism and the mercury-filled inoculations we used to get as babies was documented in Rolling Stones magazine, an enormous article that brought even more publicity to the subject.

Nowhere in the article was it mentioned that the needles were discontinued. I don't doubt that was on purpose. People don't often move if they're not in direct line of fire. "Someone else's babies got retarded because of something The Man approved of" ? Who fucking cares. "YOUR babies may get retarded!" Then people care.

However, the man who designed the mercury-filled inoculations IS immune to any repercussions due to any past decision involving those inoculations due to a rider on the patriot act, written in by the Senator who gets the highest contributions from drug companies. They're not protecting him for nothing.

>>8958065
This series is pretty awesome, I must say.