According to John Steinbeck, the author of The Grapes of Wrath and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, “Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.” People often choose to ignore what they know so that they can continue acting in a way that they know is bad idea. Despite the fact that they are aware of their malicious actions, they choose to ignore the truth of their situation in order to act in a way that is convenient or profitable for them. In our modern-day history, this still hasn’t changed, where people often ignore the truth in order to continue acting in ways that suit them. Examples of this phenomenon can be found with how Trump has ignored signs of global warming in order to keep the
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Despite the fact that thousands of scientific studies have proven that vaccines don’t cause autism, thousands of people still refuse to vaccinate their children so that they don’t have to admit their wrongdoing and change their ways. Anti-vaccinators still choose to believe a study published by The Lancet in 1988, where where researcher Andrew Wakefield and some of his colleagues falsely claimed that the MMR vaccine was linked to autism after using improper scientific techniques and evidence. In fact, according Oxford University Press, researchers in the United Kingdom have used a random sample of 598 autistic children from eight different districts who were born before and after the 1987 introduction of the same MMR vaccine that Wakefield claimed would cause autism, and found that there was no evidence that the introduction of this MMR vaccine had any effect on autism rates. In addition to this, thousands of peer-reviewed and reputable studies have all proven that vaccines don’t cause autism or other diseases. Despite the fact that these anti-vaccinators have stumbled over this truth, they still choose to believe their old theories. It is easier for them to continue believing their own lie that vaccines cause diseases rather than to listen to the truth, which causes them to continue
Despite the fact that thousands of scientific studies have proven that vaccines don’t cause autism, thousands of people still refuse to vaccinate their children so that they don’t have to admit their wrongdoing and change their ways. Anti-vaccinators still choose to believe a study published by The Lancet in 1988, where where researcher Andrew Wakefield and some of his colleagues falsely claimed that the MMR vaccine was linked to autism after using improper scientific techniques and evidence. In fact, according Oxford University Press, researchers in the United Kingdom have used a random sample of 598 autistic children from eight different districts who were born before and after the 1987 introduction of the same MMR vaccine that Wakefield claimed would cause autism, and found that there was no evidence that the introduction of this MMR vaccine had any effect on autism rates. In addition to this, thousands of peer-reviewed and reputable studies have all proven that vaccines don’t cause autism or other diseases. Despite the fact that these anti-vaccinators have stumbled over this truth, they still choose to believe their old theories. It is easier for them to continue believing their own lie that vaccines cause diseases rather than to listen to the truth, which causes them to continue