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The tendency for anti-vaxxers to believe in their delusions more the more they are contradicted with facts is a thorny problem.

However the flow of new misinformation also strengthens their beliefs, and draws in new people to the delusional cause. Overall I think deleting this misinformation channel is still a net positive.

We need some psychologists on the case. Or advertising professionals.

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Yeah, 30-40% of the population needs psychologists and propagandists to evaluate or re-educate them. I think this viewpoint you're espousing might be part of the problem.

This is how hard it is to get any sense into indoctrinated anti-vaxxers. The actual facts are rejected as propaganda and reeducation. They won't trust eminently respectable sources of truth like the CDC or the WHO.

However, wildly untrustable sources with dubious motives are accepted as truth with no filter.

How did the adversaries hack their brains and lock the door behind them?

> respectable sources of truth like the CDC or the WHO.

lmao

> eminently respectable sources of truth like the CDC or the WHO

In 2019, the CDC and WHO could have been considered "eminently respectable sources of truth", but they've both said things to totally tank all of their built up credibility in the last year and a half.

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