Viliam_Bur comments on Open Thread, Feb. 2 - Feb 8, 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion
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Might it be reasonable to think of the anti-vaccination movement as people trying to take heroic responsibility without having good judgement?
I can imagine different people in the anti-vaccination movement having different psychological motives. For some of them, it may be just the "purity" instinct. Others may have studied the topic a lot, unfortunately from bad sources or with bad understanding. (The difference is that the latter could have reached an opposite conclusion if presented with different literature and/or peer pressure, while the former would always opt for "not doing anything against the nature".)
Then it is an empirical question of which ones are how frequent.