STUDY: Most Anti-Vaxxers Had Abusive Childhoods

Duke University Today reports:

Curious about why some people have been so passionately, often angrily, opposed to vaccination against the COVID-19 virus, a team of researchers with access to rare and unusual insights into the childhood forces that shape our adult lives thought they’d try to find out.

The Dunedin data showed that 40 years ago in childhood, many of the participants who said they were now vaccine-resistant or hesitant had adverse childhood experiences, including abuse, neglect, threats, and deprivations.

The resistant and hesitant groups had scored lower on mental processing speed, reading level, and verbal ability as children. At age 45, before the pandemic, these people were also found to have less practical everyday health knowledge.

Read the full article. There’s much more.

Vaccine Resistance Comes From Childhood Legacy of Mistrust https://t.co/AAAcdJH2UL

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