Yet Silicon Valley has been noted as having disproportionately low vaccination rates.

http://www.wired.com/2015/02/closer-look-silicon-valleys-dis...

Perhaps not highly educated in the sciences. Many US schools allow students to graduate without any real exposure to science.

We're talking about post-graduate degrees though. I would hope that most people with advanced degrees would have the critical thinking skills to understand the net benefits of vaccination, even without formal training in science.

The lawyers? I know them. Most have no understanding of the metric system. Their science education stopped in grade school.

> . I would hope that most people with advanced degrees would have the critical thinking skills to understand the net benefits of vaccination

Yeaaaaah. No. Not really

But to be honest a lot of people trained in "hard fields" have some trouble with concepts that are "easier" for the people in the humanities field