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It is the well educated.doing this. The religious fundamentalists in Mississippi never went on the antIvax train as they know their scriptures well enough to know it isn't there. However a few well.educated who don't know their scriptures there are enough to being this to court againt the majority.
It couldn't be the well-educated doing this. Because then they wouldn't be well educated. It could be the well to do sadistic and manipulative people. Who get their kicks out of manipulating and riiling up ignorant people to vote against their own interests. But in a Venn diagram they would have little to no overlap with highly educated people in general.
Stop you bias and look. Anti vax comes from well educated middle class people. Few are educated in anything medical ,but they mostly are well educated .
Stop your bias and look. It's not coming from them exclusively in any way shape or form. No one actually educated in the subject is pushing this bullshit. It's all people with little to no knowledge generally of the subject they're pushing. Yes there are few isolated nurses here and there. Who again are not trained in that sort of thing. Believing the lies of charlatans and spreading them. They are not what I would consider well educated in the subject. Just because you had an education in, something does not make you well educated in something else.
You two are argueing the semantics of 'well-educated', the one version meaning to have any higher education, the other to also have a well rounded, universal education. Both are valid definitions.
Actually we're not. I'm arguing against blaming this by framing it as a problem of the well educated. Someone can be well educated yet poorly learned. It's not their education that's causing them to make bad decisions. It's just really disingenuous and misleading to claim then that it is caused largely by well-educated people. Especially when there are others differing levels of education claiming other absurdities like microchips in vaccines. It isn't unique or special to well educated people on the whole. In fact, well educated well learned, people defer to the experts on the matter and don't run with the anti-vaccine stance.
The problem is our increasingly profit driven, sensationalist, yellow journalism over the last half century. The seed of this whole anti-vax movement was placed by a crackpot quickly debunked researcher. Then seeking views/clicks untold outlets started publishing it as if it were some sort of confirmed verified truth. Remember when eggs were bad? MSG? Etc etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc etc ad nauseam. They never were. It was simply gross misrepresentation of actual research. It was either later proven false speculation or inaccurate.
There's been a concerted movement over the last half century plus to vilify the educated. We shouldn't play into it. If you wanna blame people who should know better. I'm down. But only after we enact some small consequence for our widespread yellow journalism problem. Preying upon people's ignorance and fear to make a buck.
Nobody has a fully well rounded education. You can't live that long. We all have gaps.
Otherwise you are correct , different semantics.
You are out of date. This hasn't been the case for years now. It used to be vaccine refusal was common among the wealthy whites but it moved towards the bottom of economic groups.
Mississippi had the lowest rate of covid vaccination in the country, the hell are you talking about.