You have no idea. There are still even Freepers who claim that Wakefield has been vindicated, and they post from a myriad of anti-vaxer blogs like Age of Autism.
It is a scam that will live on for decades, and convincing them with facts is impossible since their minds function like 9/11 Truthers; anyone who says vaccines are safe hasn't "educated themselves" or is part of the conspiracy.
It is a scam that will live on for decades, and convincing them with facts is impossible since their minds function like 9/11 Truthers; anyone who says vaccines are safe hasn't "educated themselves" or is part of the conspiracy.
Oh, I do have some idea about those "Freepers"--I encounter them all the time. Every time I do, I endeavor to post a rebuttal to their nonsense. I have found that they are incredibly resistant to any logic, and reject anything resembling factual material.
I remember one exchange with an anti-vax kook, in which I tried to explain to her how to fact-check--how to take the references she finds on anti-vax sites and look them up in PubMed so that she could read what they really say instead of what anti-vaxxers claim they say. She almost became hysterical. Somehow, by attempting to educate her on how to do simple fact-checking, I was proving that I'm part of the conspiracy.
I do not understand the thought processes that go on in the heads of people (anti-vaxxers and others) who latch onto "woo" while vehemently rejecting evidence-based medicine. I believe that their brains are actually short-circuited. I highly suspect they have an innate incapability to understand mathematics.