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Originally Posted by Bring_Back_Shantz
People have presented prety cogent arguments to disprove pretty much all of the anti-vacination arguments. So yeah, once those people have been given information that comes from sources more reliable than one disproved study, and Jenny McCarthy, and they refuse to accept that they may be wrong, they move pretty quickly form "Skeptic" to "Willfully Ignorant".
Is it really any wonder people get frustrated and start making fun of people who claim to be skpetics but ignore an overwhelming body of evidence that disproves their position?
If someone refuses to be reasoned out of a position, they are not a skeptic, they are an ideologist, and thus shouldn't really be involved in debates that require scientific support.
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And myself(and probably many others), being less polarized than the more vocal people in this thread came into this topic curious about what people have to say. Unsurprisingly I see mostly bickering and insults, when I see that I can't take anything you say seriously because you look equally childish as the willfully ignorant. That's why it's counterproductive, you aren't going to convert the ignorant with insults and the objective and curious have trouble giving credence to the opinions of the arrogant and condescending.