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I imagine that says more about the demographics of the general New Age belief cluster than it does about any special IQ-based appeal of vaccination skepticism.
There probably are some scams or virulent memes that prey on insecurities strongly correlated with high IQ, though. I can't think of anything specific offhand, but the fringes of geek culture are probably one of the better places to start looking.
Well, the way I see it, outside of very high IQ in combination with education that is multiple topics of biochemistry, effects of intelligence are small and are easily dwarfed by things like those demographical correlations.
Free energy scams. Hydrinos, cold fusion, magnetic generators, perpetual motion, you name it. edit: or in the medicine, counter intuitive stuff like sitting in an old uranium mine inhaling radon, then having so much radon progeny plate-out it sets nuclear material smuggling alarms off. Naturalistic fallacy stuff in general.
Cryonics. ducks and runs
Edit: It was a joke. Sorryyyyyy
That is more persuasive to high IQ people, but, I think, only insofar as intelligence allows one to gain better rationality skills. And if we're including that, there are plenty of other, facetious examples that come into play.
Also: ha ha. How hilarious. I would love to see why you class cryonics as a scam, but sadly I'm fairly certain it would be one of the standard mistakes.