The chicken-and-egg problem comes in many forms. One of them includes the two topics of vaccination skepticism and conspiracy myths. Here, too, the question is what came first. So, are people losing confidence in the safety and effectiveness of vaccines because they got caught up in the conspiracy myths and got weird ideas? Or does thinking only open up to conspiracy stories because people somehow want to hedge their previously existing vaccination skepticism with stories about dark powers, i.e. want to rationalize it?
First the fear, then the delusion – knowledge
