[ SECRET POST #4483 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4483 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Unpopular opinions

[(Anonymous)]

this is true. it might be better to use the same method of manipulation that turned them into anti-vaxxers in the first place, in this case faulty internet ads they saw on facebook. you could combat the fake ads with a flood of factual ads on social media.

the other way to do it is through the church. most anti-vaxxers are hardcore religious people who would believe a preacher over a doctor. get church leaders to start preaching about the benefits of vaccination and maybe the followers will listen.

arguing with anti-vaxxers isn't going to change their minds, you're absolutely right. the most feasible way to change their minds is through manipulation.

Re: Unpopular opinions

[(Anonymous)]

Is anti-vax bs really being spread by churches now? I guess I shouldn’t be surprised the way I was when I found out at least one of the big essential oil companies is a pyramid scheme working hand in glove with evangelical Christian churches. My mental image of both anti-vaxxers and herbal/alternative medicine users was more “hippie atheist/new ager” than “Jesus saves so you don’t need vaccines.” My parents were hippies and I went and got vaccinated as an adult because they’d gotten a personal belief exemption when I was a kid, luckily no longer legal in California.

Re: Unpopular opinions

[(Anonymous)]

There is a trait in common through religion and antivaxx and pyramid schemes, and it's that those people are more likely to "just have faith" in things.

This is not to say that religion is necessarily a scam or fake or that faith is bad when judiciously applied. Just that many pyramid schemes and conspiracy theories abuse the same framework to target the people already inclined to those things.

Pyramid schemes especially prey upon religious people - like stay at home moms that evangelicals say should be a homemaker but who want to have a side-job at home for extra money - that find the kind of speech and sermonization and affirming group celebratory things they use familiar and comforting. If you look at some of their writings it's creepily similar to religious tracts, and that's on purpose. There's a reason MLMs are rampant in places like Utah, or that people think of Amway as a cult. Some anti-vaxxers do the same with "nature" and "what God intended" and "God's plan" using words that in theory empower parents with purpose and cause but use their faith or religion against them.