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Re:Why Are the Highly Educated So Liberal? by tempestn on Friday June 03, 2016 @06:28AM (#11829405)
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.
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Re:Why Are the Highly Educated So Liberal? by sandworm101 on Friday June 03, 2016 @06:40AM (#11829458)
The lawyers? I know them. Most have no understanding of the metric system. Their science education stopped in grade school.
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Re:Why Are the Highly Educated So Liberal? by raverbashing on Friday June 03, 2016 @07:51AM (#11829743)
> . 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

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