So just take my Chinese finger trap analogy and flip it. (They had those in ZA growing up?)
But I don't see or hear a concerted effort to "keep pulling." The article in question is hardly going to be read by all that many people. Far more people are on community Facebook groups swapping bogus remedies and names of healers without anyone chiming in to say it's all bs. The only thing that elicits much of a reaction is vaccines, and you're certainly right, as mad as I or anyone else has gotten, I've never seen any single person be convinced. But keeping quiet or chilling out about it certainly hasn't increased vaccination rates either.
My question is not an argument, I'm genuinely wondering what methods would lead to better education and help reverse the distrust of doctors.
It's unfortunate that he is so busy using every opportunity to bash the "right wing" orthodox and the rabanim. This can actauly be an interesting debate and discussion. But the tone of his blog post distracts from meaningful conversation.
As an aside- did anyone else see the irony in him using the story of a girl who unfortunately lost her arm after not being vaccinated, right after lambasting rabbis for solely following anectodle evidence ?
This is a good post. But I love the typo at the end. I'm thinking of starting a rationalist site: "Anectoadal Evidence - Random stories about frogs, and their life changing lessons"