You can't actually change an anti-vaxxers mind. In fact, trying to be nice and reasonable and giving them facts and statistics makes them more likely to believe they are right.It's called the backfire effect. (The book The Unpersuadables discusses why the backfire effect happens and the cogitive reasons for it.)

Too bad that doesn't work.

These are time times I wished I believed that there was a hell for people to burn in.

The majority of Americans are okay with this. Black lives do not matter. Whether male or female, young or old. The majority (yes, that's mostly white people in the US) think the murder of this child is just collateral damage.

They deserve more than shame, if you ask me. It is child endangerment. As well as public endangerment (the immune-compromised, but also the few percent that take the vaccine but immunity does not take hold.)

But... you catch flies with vinegar, not honey. In this case, there is no way to gently persuade an anti-vaxxer. They think that they are protecting their children, and they've already chosen to willfully ignore science, evidence, and reality as a whole. You cannot convince them otherwise. I agree that the required…

Yeah, if you want to catch flies. I'm not much for flies, myself.

Also, I don't see the DOMA/Prop 8 thing the same way: I think what made the difference there was LGBTQ people and allies having enough numbers and courage to stand up and say that no, if you're against two people getting married because of their gender,…

-Hello, doc. We want to give our son the Ebola vaccine.

The question is, how to persuade then? If facts and data (no matter how they're presented) just make people dig in further, what's the alternative? Maybe a bit of social push back and isolation will help people recognize the echo chamber they're in and that most people are deeply critical and angry about what they're…

It turns out that there's no way to change minds on this one - see study published last December trying all sorts of approaches - but it sounds here like (a) the person was perfectly polite, if firm, and (b) it's better to get the info out there than to let this kind of crap spread.

People like that aren't going to change their minds with argument. They've already willfully rejected both science and public health concerns. No matter how gently you hold their hands and talk through their wittle fee-fees, they're just going to keep babbling the same thing.

This personal exemption clause BS needs to stop. Unless someone can't get a vaccine for health reasons, NO EXEMPTIONS!

As I've gotten older, I have become more outspoken about how ignorant climate deniers and anti vaxxers are that I *specifically* bring it up around people I think will be more likely to believe in that shit just so I can drop my truth bombs on them and watch them stutter their stupidity.

My twins are on the autism spectrum. They are verbal and high functioning so they don't have a lot of the "bad" traits people associate with autism. Still, I get so pissed when people say they don't want vaccines because "Autism!" because they rather risk their kids dying painful deaths then have kids like mine.

I have to say (as someone on the autism spectrum).

True story:

OMG it like emerging from a singularity in spacetime. My future has become my past.

oh my gosh I totally forgot about this stuff! They made peel off nail poilish for those of us that had unfun prudes for mothers that didn't allow us to wear the normal stuff. My first "lipstick" was tinkerbell and I still remember the taste of it and the way it pushed off the base and got all over everything.

Yup, I had that exact same box too.

I had that yellow set when I was like...five! Hmm, and I've loved yellow ever since...