TheClayroo t1_izooml8 wrote on December 10, 2022 at 6:14 PM

Reply to comment by psydkay in An analysis of 4511 vaccine-related tweets show that anti-vaccine messaging tends to focus on the "harmful" nature of vaccines, based on personal values and beliefs rather than hard facts. Anonymity did not affect the type of content posted, but did affect volume of content. by glawgii

The Venn diagram between those two groups is a perfect circle.

Daerrol t1_izr98jr wrote on December 11, 2022 at 6:22 AM

Not at all, flat earthers are significantly more rare. Flat earth is based on personal observation over science mixed with general conspiratorial thinking and anti-gov' skepticism.

Anti-vaxx is much more a social movement, and is/was aligned heavily with US politic. The vax became a short hand for thoughts about lockdowns and other unrelated things. Like if you got the vax then you agreed Covid was a problem and therefore agree lockdowns should happen (illogical as this is, we get shots for tons of other diseases - the flu most notably- that we do not engage in special social measures for)

Then there's the whole hippy/naturalistic, and medicine skeptic crowds who all have their own motivations