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.
Well, my mom believes it and she's not even American.
Let's put it this way, the new FBI director sells supplements to make you immune from "vaccine shedding", AKA being around vaxxed people.
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.
Not just America, up here in Canada too. It's real.
Having lived next to them for my whole life; For Americans if it sounds too stupid to be true it’s probably true
If these people were around 50 yrs ago we'd still have polio and smallpox.
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 just USA.
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.
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.
They sure do. It's so dumb.
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