RE: Vaccine Debate and Critical Thinking
Stop assuming anti vaccine advocates are "unscientific". Those who oppose vaccines do extensive research, look up vaccine ingredient lists, research the toxic effects of chemicals on the human body, analyze dosages, learn about immunology, and listen to countless lectures given by doctors. In short they do extensive scientific research in order to come to their conclusions. Science is by it's very nature a process of questioning and criticism. Just because there are those criticizing vaccines doesn't make them unscientific. In fact if anything it makes them more so.
Literally every anti-vaccine person I've argued with on Steemit has argued against scientific rigour and used incredibly weak, anecdotal evidence and self-selecting surveys as the basis of their argument. It is not an "assumption" when someone defends their position with unscientific and anti-scientific arguments to say that they are being unscientific. Perhaps your experience has been different, but that has been the entirety of mine.
That's rather unfortunate. Before I ask for information that you say was argued against, as you say because scientific rigor I will outright state that vaccines have no redeeming qualities, there is no efficacy, nor any scientific studies that are either rigorous or at least even exist that show that vaccines are viable at preventing what they claim they prevent. So what are some examples of scientific rigor that anti-vaccine persons have argued against?
Half the time when I present scientific papers to a pro vaccine advocate that criticize vaccines, they ignore them. Same goes when I provide lectures given by medical professionals that criticize vaccines, again they are ignored. That's hardly "scientific rigour" when you refuse to acknowledge science that criticizes your position.
In fact I provided links to a site or two that provided such such scientific evidence, complete with citations of scientific papers which you can download as pdfs. And I can get you more information if you'd like.