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How Americans responded in 1955 when the invention of the polio vaccine was announced (feddit.org)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

If that's true, you'd expect to see more conspiracy theories among more educated populations. People with PhDs and MDs would be the most likely to be antivaxxers. Do you have statistics to confirm that?

[โ€“] AngryCommieKender 0 points 21 hours ago

I believe what they are referring to is a high school education. There are still a fuckton of people in the US that still believe that "no one really needs to go to school past 6th or 8th grade."