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"Before the pandemic, Matthew Motta, a political science professor at Oklahoma
State University, and his colleagues Timothy Callaghan, Steven Sylvester,
Kristin Lunz Trujillo and Christine Crudo Blackburn studied parents’ hesitancy
about giving their kids routine vaccinations, like those for measles, mumps and
rubella. Reasons varied, and the most prominent was conspiratorial thinking.
Some parents who delayed their children’s vaccines also held strong ideas about
moral/bodily purity, which often correlated with higher levels of religiosity.
Evangelical Christians, people who distrusted scientists and other experts and
people prone to believing in conspiracies were also among the groups finding a
home in the Republican Party, too."
Via Frederick Wilson II.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
