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Parents Who Don't Vaccinate Kids Tend To Be Affluent, Better Educated (go.com)
schwit1 quotes ABC News: Vaccines are universally backed by respected scientists and federal agencies, but that isn't enough to convince every parent to vaccinate their children. The decision to fly in the face of near universal scientific opinion doesn't come as a result of a lack of intellect, however, as experts who have studied vaccines and immunology acknowledge that many parents who don't vaccinate their children are well-educated. They also appear to be the victims of a widespread misinformation campaign, the experts said.
Daniel Salmon, who is the director of the Institute of Vaccine Safety at Johns Hopkins University, said that existing research suggests that there are some common attributes that many parents who choose not to vaccinate their children share. "They tend to be better educated. They tend to be white, and they tend to be higher income. They tend to have larger families and they tend to use complementary and alternative medicine like chiropractors and naturopaths," Salmon said.
Salman also says outbreaks typically start when an American returns from a visit to Europe, where there are much higher rates of measles than in the U.S. But lower vaccination rates help it spread.
One study in August reported Russian trolls "seem to be using vaccination as a wedge issue, promoting discord in American society," though their campaign on Twitter failed to gain traction.
"I blame Amazon Prime," writes long-time Slashdot reader destinyland. "That 'misinformation' they're talking about is the pseudoscience documentary Vaxxed -- and Amazon is one of the top site's pushing it. The movie is not only free for all Prime members -- Amazon's actually featuring it on the front page showing free-with-Prime movies."
Daniel Salmon, who is the director of the Institute of Vaccine Safety at Johns Hopkins University, said that existing research suggests that there are some common attributes that many parents who choose not to vaccinate their children share. "They tend to be better educated. They tend to be white, and they tend to be higher income. They tend to have larger families and they tend to use complementary and alternative medicine like chiropractors and naturopaths," Salmon said.
Salman also says outbreaks typically start when an American returns from a visit to Europe, where there are much higher rates of measles than in the U.S. But lower vaccination rates help it spread.
One study in August reported Russian trolls "seem to be using vaccination as a wedge issue, promoting discord in American society," though their campaign on Twitter failed to gain traction.
"I blame Amazon Prime," writes long-time Slashdot reader destinyland. "That 'misinformation' they're talking about is the pseudoscience documentary Vaxxed -- and Amazon is one of the top site's pushing it. The movie is not only free for all Prime members -- Amazon's actually featuring it on the front page showing free-with-Prime movies."
"People who smoke should be banned from medical insurance."
"People who skydive should be banned from medical insurance."
"People who ride motorcycles should be required to be registered as organ donors."
Etc. etc.
OK, let me explain the language that was used above that confused you.
The thing you saw talked about education. Because that is a data point you will have about a sub-population. But people aren't asked for an IQ score on forms, people don't have any sort of formal listing of their intelligence for you to track. So the data collection part will use education as a proxy for things like that.
Then, you came upon the slashdot comments, where somebody was offering an explanation that includes considerations of intelligence. This doesn't mean they misunderstood the story; it means they are commenting on it.
Hopefully that was educational.
" I don't know a whole heck of a lot of truly smart people who are also religious."
Yeah, I'm guessing you are either that ignorant, or you simply don't know a whole heck of a lot of smart people of any kind.
If you don't know any Intelligent religious people then 1) you are completely ignorant about how many of the Intelligent people you know are also religious, 2) don't know any Intelligent people, 3) have simply surrounded yourself by your own echo-chamber bubble, 4) you are simply lying to some random internet stranger to justify your own belief and bigotry.
All options are equally plausible. Since you immediately reject all of the above options, my bet is that you are lying and don't even work for any research University at all.
I mean wow. Do you really not hear how bigoted you are. You literally just said that you don't know any intelligent Jews.
Wow.