I thought all anti-vaxxers were idiots. Then I married one.
Almost everyone believes the following: Vaccines are a good and necessary part of medicine.
Some people, and more people every day, believe this, too: Those who don't believe in the virtues of vaccines — anti-vaxxers — are ignorant and dangerous lunatics, possibly evil.
I spent most of my life believing that. During my early 20s, I lived in the skeptic blogosphere, a mid-2000s constellation of internet communities theoretically organized around highly charismatic bloggers, vloggers, and other intellectuals. In practice, however, these groups were centered on a more basic principle: hostility...