Keith

“Rather than being low-information parents, these are parents who are, if anything, less selective in choosing the sources they get information from. Rather than using information arrived at through the scientific method, they have also incorporated information from websites, alternative health practitioners, and religious leaders.”
― Jonathan M. Berman, Anti-Vaxxers: How to Challenge a Misinformed Movement

“The paranoid’s interpretation of history is distinctly personal: decisive events are not taken as part of the stream of history, but as the consequences of someone’s will. —Richard Hofstadter, The Paranoid Style in American Politics”
― Jonathan M. Berman, Anti-Vaxxers: How to Challenge a Misinformed Movement

“When opposition to vaccination becomes attached to a person’s identity and values, contradictory information can feel like an attack on that identity and those values.”
― Jonathan M. Berman, Anti-Vaxxers: How to Challenge a Misinformed Movement

“Writing was my godsend, my treatment, my way of digging myself out of a depressive hole. That’s not an outlet a lot of working-class kids had. But because I’d been exposed to books from an early age, this method came naturally. I’d write lots of poems to expel negative feelings. Though I didn’t show them to anybody—they contained the kind of stuff you’d hesitate to tell even a psychiatrist—they became the seeds for the lyrics that would come to define my career.”
― Geezer Butler, Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath―And Beyond