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<blockquote data-quote="mindlight" data-source="post: 76423631" data-attributes="member: 21246"><p>Science is a tool that can be used to kill or to heal. Some of the innovations that made such a rapid development of a vaccine possible are truly encouraging e.g. the mRNA vaccines. I am fully behind using science to beat this Pandemic but it is not enough by itself. I would not be surprised if the same techniques were not used to engineer bioweapons in the near future.</p><p></p><p>Why are so many people anti-vaxers? Part of this is a reaction to the arrogance of atheist scientists who have suggested that science is the answer for everything while these people have watched family and friends die despite following all the scientist's advice. This distrust has grown so deep that even common sense stuff and stuff that is pretty much proven, as the efficacy of vaccinations, is treated with skepticism. People have been turning away from science for decades now and towards alternative medicines and quack remedies or indeed to a simple trust in miracles that mainly never come, because God does not usually work like that. This pandemic has polarised opinions and hardened some into tiny bubbles of delusion. Science has no answers on how to penetrate those bubbles. Merely shouting "I am right moron, just follow the science" is not working.</p><p></p><p>In the end, you have a brain and live in a universe that has intelligible rules because God created things this way. I have a brother who has an IQ on a par with Stephen Hawkins but who is an anti-vaxer. The statistical probability is that he is smarter than you even though he is completely wrong about this, as even the top one percent are dumb by his standards. It is not his ability to think that is in question it is the ability to trust that scientists are in connection with reality, with a universe that has rules and can be understood. It is an ability to trust that the people who tell us vaccines work are not deceiving us. It is all about faith in the end.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mindlight, post: 76423631, member: 21246"] Science is a tool that can be used to kill or to heal. Some of the innovations that made such a rapid development of a vaccine possible are truly encouraging e.g. the mRNA vaccines. I am fully behind using science to beat this Pandemic but it is not enough by itself. I would not be surprised if the same techniques were not used to engineer bioweapons in the near future. Why are so many people anti-vaxers? Part of this is a reaction to the arrogance of atheist scientists who have suggested that science is the answer for everything while these people have watched family and friends die despite following all the scientist's advice. This distrust has grown so deep that even common sense stuff and stuff that is pretty much proven, as the efficacy of vaccinations, is treated with skepticism. People have been turning away from science for decades now and towards alternative medicines and quack remedies or indeed to a simple trust in miracles that mainly never come, because God does not usually work like that. This pandemic has polarised opinions and hardened some into tiny bubbles of delusion. Science has no answers on how to penetrate those bubbles. Merely shouting "I am right moron, just follow the science" is not working. In the end, you have a brain and live in a universe that has intelligible rules because God created things this way. I have a brother who has an IQ on a par with Stephen Hawkins but who is an anti-vaxer. The statistical probability is that he is smarter than you even though he is completely wrong about this, as even the top one percent are dumb by his standards. It is not his ability to think that is in question it is the ability to trust that scientists are in connection with reality, with a universe that has rules and can be understood. It is an ability to trust that the people who tell us vaccines work are not deceiving us. It is all about faith in the end. [/QUOTE]
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