Vaccines: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Yes, sometimes explanations and reasonable arguments can just derail conversations completely. For preventing that, I find David Burns' disarming technique0 really useful. It is about "finding truth in what the other person is saying, even if it seems blatantly wrong, or illogical, or exaggerated." His podcast is amazing. Perhaps part of what your room mate is saying is that she is concerned about the well-being of her (future) children? Surely that's truly good. She's also interested in avoiding certain medical treatments that are excessive or unnecessary, which is also good. Don't know about the Holocaust-denying colleague, but sometimes xenophones have a fear of losing their job to some…

Last Week Tonight has a nice episode on Vaccines: link to this video It explains why vaccines are important, why "taking it slow" with vaccines is a bad approach, and other important stuff. Please vaccinate yourself and your kids.

Would that normally be in such a document? Plenty of engineering type documents I have read don't lay out threats in plain English nor do they try to add emotional urgency to them. Reminds me of this comment about how scientists sometimes understate how certain they are: link to this video .