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John Coffey

Paranoid. I'm sorry, but every anti-vax person I have talked to is a conspiracy-theorist. Some of these are my closest friends, but they believe things like, "Bill Gates wants to kill us all.", and "Billionaires want to kill 90% of the human race." I would like to say that I have no idea where they get these ideas, but I have some ideas: First, I see many people online who fan the flames of paranoia. Second, almost 60 years ago, one of the Rockefeller's said that he would like to see the population decrease. I've seen some twisted logic that tries to apply this to all billionaires, like they want to commit mass extermination. As if Bill Gates wants the same things as the Rockefellers. Finally, there is a great resentment toward wealth: Someone commented to me that people in the medical field live in mansions so they can't be trusted.  The argument is that the medical field is not interested in our welfare but only in profit.

I am repeatedly told that you have to "read between the lines" to get to the real truth.  The problem with that idea is that it is open to wild interpretations not based on evidence.