why are mainly rightwingers so into anti-vax conspiracies?

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[–]yesofcoursenaturally 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Because being pro-scientist doesn't mean being pro-scientist. Scientists, especially in this age, are full of shit.

See the "scientific" response to mass protests out in public during a supposedly deadly pandemic: "Racism is a public health crisis too!"

See health officials, earlier in the year, insisting that blocking international travel was a terrible idea and in fact wearing a mask was a bad idea.

Science is doing just fine. Scientists have squandered their reputations.

[–]Nombre27 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Like most things, the shift in the supply and demand for scientists, if you can even call many of these people scientists, has been ruined as access to post-secondary education has become a "right." More and more unqualified people have entered a lot of fields and done an incredible amount of questionable, unreplicable research. A lot of (most?) social science doesn't even have testable hypotheses anymore.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis

[–]yesofcoursenaturally 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah, STEM fields are often overfilled - turns out we can, in fact, have too many scientists. Especially when the "scientists" are just people with degrees that have been watered down.

The public perception of what is and isn't a scientist is also absurd.

And the fact is, scientists lie. They bullshit, they protect their reputations, they have their own philosophical and social projects. And yeah, things like the replication crisis don't get mentioned because if the public becomes skeptical of scientific claims or even science journalism, it can impact funding, which is all that matters for many of them.

I have little wonder that people are now finally saying "You know what, maybe these vaccines aren't trustworthy".