Yes, people truly believe this. It seems obviously bonkers to you and I, because we have at least average critical thinking skills. The people who believe these things have way below average critical thinking skills. And there A LOT of these people. Just look at your normal bell curve chart.
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Yes, absolutely, and this shit gets so much stupider it is mindblowing, dealing with anybody right of the center (and plenty of people all over the political spectrum) is a constant wild west duel where you have to decide in a snap whether someone believes their batshit crazy ideas as part of a straight faced shockingly amateur grift or whether honest to God that person would literally die for that stupid of a belief......
like..... Exhibit A: See how easily Elizabeth Holmes ripped off a huge number of the most powerful and revered people in US society, culturally and in terms of real power.
Let's put it this way, the new FBI director sells supplements to make you immune from "vaccine shedding", AKA being around vaxxed people.
Well, my mom believes it and she's not even American.
Not just America, up here in Canada too. It's real.
People heard about the original, now discredited study, which came out around the time autism diagnosises were increasing. People then either didn't hear or chose not to believe that the OG study was discredited.
Having lived next to them for my whole life; For Americans if it sounds too stupid to be true it’s probably true
Not just USA.
If these people were around 50 yrs ago we'd still have polio and smallpox.
Yes. There are people who believe it. I can't explain it, they have the education, they have the information, but for whatever reason they just want to believe a conspiracy theory instead.
It's sadly real. There are a lot of parents who would rather their child died a preventable death than have trouble making eye contact.
Not American, but at least a few do. And they're exporting it. My old English teacher back when I lived in the Dominican Republic was an American missionary who taught to fund her religious activities. Guess what beliefs about science and politics she was spreading along with her beliefs about baptism of the spirit?
There are people around the world who don’t believe in it. It’s not specific to Americans. You are basing this off one person on both the ends.
I know many who believe vaccines cause autism yes
I've never met anyone like that in person, but some people genuinely believe it.