> Anti-vaxxer refers to refers to someone who rejects the mountains of data (often having no data analysis skills themselves) based upon their "feelings".

I thought it was someone against vaccination?

Re-defining words that don't have hard, universal, definitions is a powerful, if dishonest, debate tactic.

Orwell wrote many essays about this. Orwell wrote very many good essays.

Have you personally looked at the mountain's of data and come to your conclusions? I mean articles on journals like "Vaccine" Or have you just read pseudo-scientific articles on nytimes and the such meant for mass consumption?

Have you re-created the paper's data analysis from the (typically not easily available) data? Turns out some medical communities, like physiology, suck at data analysis.

Because if not, then you're just as uninformed as the anti-vaxxers with a healthy mix of arrogance.

If you are a researcher in the field, keep up the good work, but this arrogance towards the little ones fuels anti-vaxxer movement.

I despise people who are "on my side of the debate" belittling those they disagree with. Such incivility!

Do you know exactly how your car works? How every food you eat is specifically processed? Anti-vaxxers are disrespected because they use "mom science" rather than respecting the evidence created by those whose job it is to research it.

"...exactly how your car works?" Yes, car geek

"How every food you eat is specifically processed" To a large extent yes - foodie.

Better example: web development. I don't care, I don't care to read about it. I also offer little judgment on that matter. I respect the opinion of those who seem to have an informed decisions on the topic, but I don't belittle those who don't trust the opinions of these, largely self appointed, experts.

As to medicine, the medical field has a long and rich history of abuse of patient rights (from forcibly stopping breast feeding, forced sterilizations, forced infection with syphilis, not treating said victims, ect) and hubris (refusing to wash their hands is my favorite).

While I believe in vaccines, I don't fault any one for not trusting medical authorities. Dr.s are, typically, (because they are trained this way) very patronizing people that historically have not respected their patients agency.

Thanks for the respectful discourse. I appreciate the civility.