Contamination requiring ritual purification: Superstitious concepts at the heart of antivaccine beliefs

Much of the belief system that undergirds antivaccine views is rooted in superstition. That's why it's not a coincidence that antivaxers frequently speak in terms of contamination due to vaccines as a cause of autism and all the other conditions for which antivaxers blame vaccines and ritual purification in the form of "detoxification" as the treatment. These beliefs very much resemble religious beliefs, and antivaxers project them onto pro-science advocates.
Source: Respectful Insolence - Category: Surgery Authors: Tags: Antivaccine nonsense Complementary and alternative medicine Religion Skepticism/critical thinking contamination John Rappaport Megan Heimer Mike Adams Natural News quackery ritual purification vaccines Source Type: blogs