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If You’re Against Vaccines, Avoid These Logical Fallacies
How to try to win an argument when facts, science, and reason are not on your side.
With the recent approval of the COVID-19 vaccines for children under 5, the anti-vaccine community has gone into an even higher level of frenzy. The accusations of corruption and claims of “alternative facts” are plenty, but too many of the arguments being made are fallacious. If you are anti-vaccine, and you go up against someone who knows more than you, you need to lay off the logical fallacies and try something else. This is because we — the people who know better — can see through many of your arguments. Sure, other people might not, and you might trick them, but you can’t fool everyone all the time.
The Nirvana Fallacy
The Nirvana Fallacy is one of my favorite fallacies to take down, because it is very easy to take down. It is used all over the world for all sorts of issues, not just vaccinations. The fallacy goes like this: If something is not 100% safe and 100% effective, then it is not worth using/trying/doing. Are vaccines 100% safe? No, they are not. Plenty of people will have different levels of reactions to them. From time to time, someone will get seriously injured from a vaccine. Are vaccines 100% effective? No, they are not. Plenty…
