RE: The History Of Vaccines
There is no way logic and reason will convince someone who is acting emotionally irrational. What we must do is speak to the irrational emotional reactionary part of their mind. I have been listening to an audio book by Scott Adams called "Win Bigly." The book is not about Trump, it is talking about persuasive dialogue. I agree with Adams most humans if not all are not logical and do no react to data reasonably.
Background: Readers of this blog have been asking for a reading list to learn more about hypnosis, persuasion, and influence in general. This is the start of the list. I will update it over time.
http://blog.dilbert.com/2015/09/24/the-persuasion-reading-list/
If we are going to help people find their health and leave abusive situations we need to speak to the crazy part of them and stop trying to be reasonable. tip! .50
I fully agree that you can't argue with irrationality, but not all of those that I encounter are irrational. Many have simply never looked at the question in any level of detail because they believe that science has already proven the case. It is only for these people that any semblance of science and reasoning will work.
For those that are irrational, perhaps you can use NLP or something similar with them, but personally I prefer to ignore others that can't even structure some simple logical reasoning. They are not the real influencers of others in any case. I believe that the time you take in educating others is best spent on the 10% that can think and can influence others, and the other 90% should simply be left alone. The other 90% will only frustrate you in any case.