{"id":674,"date":"2014-03-03T17:45:56","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T01:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/?p=674"},"modified":"2020-10-18T11:58:07","modified_gmt":"2020-10-18T18:58:07","slug":"anti-vaxxers-and-irrationality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/2014\/03\/03\/anti-vaxxers-and-irrationality\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Vaxxers and Irrationality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slate: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/xx_factor\/2014\/03\/03\/effective_messages_in_vaccine_promotion_when_it_comes_to_anti_vaxxers_there.html\">According to a New Study, Nothing Can Change an Anti-Vaxxer\u2019s Mind<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apparently you just can\u2019t change anti-vaxxers\u2019 minds.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThis reaction, where people become more assured of their stupid opinions when confronted with factual or scientific evidence proving them wrong, has been demonstrated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dartmouth.edu\/~nyhan\/nyhan-reifler.pdf\">in similar studies<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2011\/03\/denial-science-chris-mooney?page=2\">time and time again<\/a>. (This is why arguing with your Facebook friends who watch Fox News will only bring you migraines.)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What is the definition of a rational mind? It seems to be that this kind of behavior certainly describes an <i>irrational<\/i> mind. How does this happen? Again, the psychological biases described by McRaney and others reveals some of it: mostly they cannot bear to think that they are wrong about something so fundamental, because that realization would undermine their sense of self-worth and throw into doubt everything else they think they are certain about; and their support of this thinking in a community of like-thinkers bolsters their commitment to in-group thinking vs the thinking of &#8216;others&#8217;. Bubbles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slate: According to a New Study, Nothing Can Change an Anti-Vaxxer\u2019s Mind Apparently you just can\u2019t change anti-vaxxers\u2019 minds. This reaction, where people become more assured of their stupid opinions when confronted with factual or scientific evidence proving them wrong, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/2014\/03\/03\/anti-vaxxers-and-irrationality\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,12,2,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lunacy","category-religion","category-science","category-thinking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":675,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions\/675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}