Study Finds The Most Highly-Educated Americans Are Also The Most Vaccine-Hesitant

Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News,

A new report by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh has found that the most highly educated Americans are also the most vaccine hesitant.

The researchers canvassed no fewer than 5 million Americans who responded to surveys on whether they were “probably” or “definitely not planning on getting a COVID vaccine.

The results will shock many.

“More surprising is the breakdown in vaccine hesitancy by level of education,” reports UnHerd.

“It finds that the association between hesitancy and education level follows a U-shaped curve with the highest hesitancy among those least and most educated. People with a master’s degree had the least hesitancy, and the highest hesitancy was among those holding a PhD.”

In addition, while the lowest educated saw the largest drop in vaccine hesitancy for the first five months of 2021, those with PhD’s were the most likely to not change their minds.

The study also reveals that the most common concern for those who are hesitant to take the vaccine is potential side-effects, with a lack of trust in government close behind in second.

[ZH: There is also a notable vaccine hesitancy across race and age cohorts]

The results of the investigation completely debunk the notion, amplified by media narratives, that only “dumb” people are vaccine hesitant.

It also demolishes NYT White House correspondent Annie Karni’s characterization of elitists who attended Obama’s 60th birthday party by as “sophisticated, vaccinated.”

How many of them haven’t taken the vaccine?

Meanwhile, the meme has been proven correct…

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49 Comments
MrLiberty
MrLiberty
August 11, 2021 4:28 pm

I may only have a BS in Biology, but 25 years working in the In-Vitro Diagnostics industry, watching the FDA at work, having a library of several hundred libertarian books on the TRUE NATURE of government (95% read), and having my head out of my ass for at least the past 35 years, has taught me all that I need to know as to why government is the greatest evil ever created by man, and why the pharmaceutical cartel shouldn’t be trusted to safely manufacture anything (making a clear distinction here between them and the natural products/supplements folks).

80% Fraud
80% Fraud
  MrLiberty
August 11, 2021 6:41 pm

4 Then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah, 5 and said to him, “Look, you are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.”

6 But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.” So Samuel prayed to the Lord. 7 And the Lord said to Samuel, “Heed the voice of the people in all that they say to you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me, that I should not reign over them

m
m
  MrLiberty
August 12, 2021 4:56 am

Uh, sure.
How about you tell us about your stance on DDT!

Iska Waran
Iska Waran
August 11, 2021 4:38 pm
Anonymous
Anonymous
  Iska Waran
August 11, 2021 5:46 pm

Tried, not working.

Iska Waran
Iska Waran
  Anonymous
August 11, 2021 5:52 pm

Make sure you spell it right. And/or try DuckDuckGo or something.

Georges S
Georges S
  Anonymous
August 11, 2021 11:56 pm

Worked for me.

Evil nab
Evil nab
August 11, 2021 4:44 pm

Many decades of experience have taught me that anytime someone says “trust me”, it is the last thing you should ever do as they have a selfish goal, likely not in your best interests. Hesitancy is the right choice.

Has anyone heard anything from the supposed authorities that did not say “Trust me” or similar?

Trust? No. I will stick with “Prove it to me”. Trust is earned and Fauci and the rest of flip-flopping liars have not earned mine. In fact, just the opposite.

GDP, usually gruntled
GDP, usually gruntled
  Evil nab
August 11, 2021 11:30 pm

Exactly. It’s like when someone prefaces a statement with “to be honest”, or “to tell you the truth”. Ahh, no. Instantly lost all credibility.

TheAssegai
TheAssegai
August 11, 2021 5:13 pm

This 20 minute video points Mass Psychosis being the problem.

falconflight
falconflight
  TheAssegai
August 11, 2021 5:54 pm

Really have appreciated Academy of Ideas for about a year now.

javelin
javelin
  TheAssegai
August 11, 2021 7:59 pm

Great video– would like to add an observation about the graph/study also.
I have heard reports that some 60-64% of Americans have acquiesced to “the jabbening.” I noted that the x-axis lists the highest % of unvaccinated currently as the PhD group at appx 24%. Something is not adding up. I suspect that many unvaccinated also refused to answer the canvassing questions at all– kind of like how Hillary had an 18% lead in exit polls and got landslided [sic.]

PS: I work in a medical facility/hospital/nursing center complex– this trend does bear out however. The housekeeping staff almost universally anti-jab, -the kitchen, CNA’s, LPN’s and admin paper pushers are jab advocates– almost none ( I’m talking almost universal at my bldg) of the Dr’s or RN’s have had the jab.

Guest
Guest
  javelin
August 11, 2021 8:34 pm

Yep. Who participates in polls?

SmallerGovNow
SmallerGovNow
  TheAssegai
August 11, 2021 8:30 pm

Awesome video… Chip

Anonymous
Anonymous
August 11, 2021 5:16 pm

I am highly educated anti-vaxxx. Fck your hesitancy. I raise you.

m
m
  Anonymous
August 12, 2021 5:01 am

I’m totally pro-vaxx.
And I will take this experimental vaccine the same way I did all others: after a minimum of 7 years careful review of it’s effects on a group of volunteers.

TN Patriot
TN Patriot
August 11, 2021 5:19 pm

I find my self on both ends of the Bell curve. The data does not add up and the evil f***ers are trying to poison us.

Arthur
Arthur
August 11, 2021 5:35 pm

“Hesitancy” is one of their buzz words. Don’t use it. It implies that the only reasonable course is to take their medicine. The “hesitancy” spell creates an artificial social proof, casting ignorance over its victims, who implicitly preclude the true default position: no medicine.

Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams
  Arthur
August 11, 2021 6:09 pm

GOOD POINT!

Guest
Guest
  Arthur
August 11, 2021 8:37 pm

EXACTLY. we keep using their words. Vaccine being the biggest right now.
What we have consistently said to the question is, No. it’s experimental. Shuts them up every time.

Auntie Kriest
Auntie Kriest
  Arthur
August 11, 2021 9:33 pm

Pardon Auntie, Arthur. The Shit-shot is not “medicine.” Ivermectin, Remsdemsivir, Hydroxychloroquine and whatever else is proven a therapeutic agent against the CoVid is and are medicines. Fully approved with plenty of historical and contemporary data to confirm the success, efficacy and safety of those pharmaceuticals. Supplements and herbs may also be termed as medicine for the malady: zinc, vitamins C & D, garlic and Quercitin all have had good results in ameliorating the ‘ROna.

The experimental, emergency use authorized, genetic modification therapy with near-certain magnetic and/or graphene oxide nanoparticle feature injection might even be called a medical device; but is sure as Hell isn’t “medicine”.

Otherwise you’ve made a great point about how the Evil Fuckers have used the awesome power of language to control this, the greatest PsyOp, mindfuck, economic, social and medical experiment conducted globally, now going on medium term, in the known recorded annals of Human history.

(Use all the language at one’s command to call out the Evil Fuckers for what they are: DEMONS.)

m
m
  Arthur
August 12, 2021 5:00 am

It’s a badge of honor when you are a critical thinker.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  m
August 12, 2021 12:28 pm

It may be; but in most circles in America today that “badge” is looked upon like this:
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Lisa
Lisa
  Arthur
August 12, 2021 4:20 pm

I agree. Hesitancy implies that you are just timid, like you are scared of everything in general and the shot falls into the category of “everything” and it isn’t issues with the shot in particular. It also implies that you are still thinking about it and will ultimately decide to do it, when you get over being hesitant.

falconflight
falconflight
August 11, 2021 5:53 pm

I saw pew polling showing a distinct bump for college grads getting the jab. I believed it because they seemingly are true believers of the various degeneracies alling society. Of course that doesn’t mean that they live that way…and they don’t according the Charles Murray’s studies. They live in a very traditional (Marriage, education) manner. I’m referring to the upper 10% economically.

B.S. in V.C.
B.S. in V.C.
August 11, 2021 6:00 pm

Why do they have a nonstop multi billion dollar PR campaign, because they have to get as many people vaxxed before the really bad long term effects start kicking in. These people are truly evil our best interests are not what they are looking out for, I truly believe it is about population control

Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams
August 11, 2021 6:05 pm

What??? No way. I don’t believe it. Been around plenty of PhDs. They are DUMBASSES!

Sorry to those of you who fall in this category. If you’re on TBP, then you’re here in spite of your “education”.

Bob P
Bob P
  Abigail Adams
August 11, 2021 7:18 pm

A lot depends on the field and the school. It’s easy to find idiots with a PhD in sociology from Lake Fucklamuck U, but I wouldn’t think there are too many idiot PhDs in physics at Stanford. Since there are many useless subjects and many horrible universities, most PhDs may indeed be dumbasses, but those in the sciences at elite universities are likely among the smartest people on the planet.

It’d be interesting to subdivide the data by field. I bet the most hesitant are in STEM fields; those who understand what the mountains of data are really telling them. Those taking arts, business, humanities, etc.–the real leftists–are probably among the most gung ho for the vaccines.

Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams
  Bob P
August 11, 2021 7:27 pm

Brilliant in their field, maybe…but not in common sense. They have tunnel vision. Trying to get them to see the big picture…no way. Yes, there are a few exceptions. Very, very few.

Guest
Guest
  Abigail Adams
August 11, 2021 8:38 pm

Yes. They are the most programmed along with ‘health workers’.

Auntie Kriest
Auntie Kriest
  Abigail Adams
August 11, 2021 9:11 pm

All too much of the time those doctoral-credentialed tend to be idiot savant-like.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Bob P
August 12, 2021 3:24 am

i spent a long time in academia in the states, admittedly years back. even then the dem/left/libtard component was very strong and there was a huge social pressure to conform to their psychosis. several years ago i found myself in town and dropped in on some old acquaintances for a visit. even sat in on a gathering of what 15 years or so before had been one of the best collections of eccentric nonconformists.. it was sobering. the ‘nonconformists’ had turned into a frigging libtard/lefty fan club where everyone was tripping over himself to be more woke than the next guy. havent seen them in the past few years but i can only guess what things would be like regarding the current subject matter.
and this was a school that’s consistently in the top 5 for the so-called STEM fields.. CS, physics, math, robotics, we were always at the top of that game.
the graphic gets a laugh but the ‘cretin’ is not an accurate picture. There’s the ‘sophisticated’ degreed-but-mediocre mind who is all about conforming to whatever is pushed as ‘sophisticated’ , that’s spot on. there are actually thinking people who value their own common sense higher than the approval of morons around them, that’s also spot on. but the ‘uneducated’ (because they dont hold sophisticated titles and degrees) who can smell a scam and say simply something aint right about this, are more likely to be tradesmen, farmers, people who have learned some basic independence of agency in their lives and are therefore less incentivized to conform. it does not matter if the particular angles of approach for applying the pressure of conformity is different, those people have more common sense than their ‘sophisticated’ cousins for whom its all about ‘being sophisticated’. someone who’s already been kicked out of the sophisticated club doesnt give a shit about earning brownie (brown nose) points from that club.. and if he’s economically more independent, there’s a lot less of a hammer to beat him into shape threatening his livelihood.. whereas the ‘sophisticateds’ are almost all on the career treadmill in megacorps and the public sector, all thoroughly parasitic scenes and the heart of the enemy camp these days.
yeah some of us eccentric nonconformists still find our paycheck in that world but try to keep it to short term contracts or something where theres even less need to suck up to any corporate bullshit, even if it means lower pay and less certainty for 6 months from now.

falconflight
falconflight
August 11, 2021 6:06 pm

I doubt that there are any truly anti vaccination folks here. I’m not, but this scenario has indeed heightened Suspicion of not only the jab, but the medical profession at this point. The AMA, Amer. Academy of Pediatrics, Amer. Lung Association, etc. What to do? I’ve had prostate problems for years, and now to have think about whether to trust (Because I don’t ‘believe’) the Urologist is a monstrous crime by their profession. I say that because the Urologist was adamant about the mask. I suppose that I should have keep my mouth shut. One visit (Biopsy…Ouch), I wore one inscribed w/ : COVID BURQA . On a subsequent visit, there I am facing him w/ the mask blaring OBEY. What to do? Eric Peters sez he’s refusing medical treatment if required to don the rag. I’m thinking about it.

different Anonymous
different Anonymous
  falconflight
August 11, 2021 8:14 pm

I would consider a vaccine if it was a true, traditional one, with a killed (not weakened-killed) virus (a complete virus, not a chopped up protein tag, or genetic modifiers), with no secondary side effects-causing accelerant adjuvants, no idiotic preservatives like thimerosal or formaldehyde, and some (trustworthy) third party long term testing…kind of like Purevax…I know, I’m dreaming…plus, I didn’t say I’d take it, I said I’d consider it…

Anonymous
Anonymous
  different Anonymous
August 12, 2021 12:31 pm

There is no spoon.

Guest
Guest
  falconflight
August 11, 2021 8:41 pm

No kidding. I distrust everyone connected with this debacle. This includes veterinarians in our area.

Look. If your doctor is talking you into this thing, or even ambivalent, how can you trust them?

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Guest
August 11, 2021 11:21 pm

There was a nurse in German, giving people saline solution instead of the covid stuff.

https://www.rt.com/news/531662-germany-saline-vaccine-covid-nurse/

So, they aren’t all bad.

Norman Franklin
Norman Franklin
  falconflight
August 12, 2021 12:39 am

I consider myself Anti-Vaccination FF. Since my bad reaction in basic training a long time ago I have avoided any shots. Except for the occasional tetanus or nova cane I can say I have virgin veins.

The fact that they are pushing so unbelievably hard is a tell in my mind. I don’t generally need to be sold on something that makes sense and is good for me. Whenever something is pushed on me its usually something I don’t need, don’t want, and cant afford.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  falconflight
August 12, 2021 3:41 am

mm, there are some. the whole medical industry has developed an enormous and fundamental conflict of interest. it profits them for you to not be well. that simple. If you are healthy they are broke. viewed through that filter almost anything developed in the past several decades is almost certainly at least supicious-smelling as having potentially multiple conflicting objectives, and some of us simply say no thanks to the whole thing. a person who minds his own health, eats decently, avoids doing exceptionally stupid things like skydiving motocross over erupting volcanoes (just something came to mind there) , there are very few medical procedures or drugs invented in our lifetime that make much of a difference. the basics? the single biggest improvement in health came from the wide acceptance of proper sanitation a hundred some years ago. that is not considered a medical accomplishment but it is a health accomplishment for sure. Access to plentiful clean running water was another enormous improvement in health simply because it made proper sanitation far more practical for people to follow. don’t shit in the same place you drink water. clean things from time to time. really basic stuff. and yet that did more to improve health than anything else people have done in pretty much all of the history of civilization. mechanical procedured like setting a broken bone or filling a cavity in a tooth, have not really advanced in anything except the convenience of doing the procedure, and in some cases (like plastic dental work) the modern convenience is inferior to the older techniques (gold dental work) and has by driving it into a niche sector made it even less accessible.. anasthesia and more thorough best practices for antisepsis in open wounds etc have made some advances, but even the ‘miracle’ of antibiotics was a mirage. it was great for thsoe who lived in the 50s and 60s. but now decades of antibiotics use has simply bred better microbes. the sulfa drugs that were the ‘miracle’ before penicillin were arguably the greater achievement, as their efficacy remains much less impaired after all these years. still, the supposed advances of the past 30 or 40 years have been on the one hand tainted by the huge conflict of interest inherent in the industry anymore, and on the other hand, only offered more advantages in smaller and smaller niches. yeah some people wouldnt be around without insanely expensive chemotherapy every week or two and a host of other drugs. funny why so many doctors still prefer to just let a cancer run its course , to the ordeal of doing chemo.
as for vaccines? even going all the way back to smallpox… the real intelligence there was the cross-immunity developed from cowpox exposure . collecting and smearing infectious material around as a rudimentary mechanism to speed up exposure to the lesser pathogen , even without understanding exactly why it worked, was a great idea, but it was also a lucky guess. anyway theres no comparison between that and the modern way of doing things and no comparison again between that and these gene-treatment-injections theyre pushing now. if one wants to put a specific point in time when the business of vaccines could be determiend to be thoroughly corrupt, it was with the passage of the liability shield laws in the 80s. Any product that gets a free pass from liability covered by the government, has more neon signs than all of las vegas at christmastime blazing out ‘corruption’ in hundred foot high letters.
the conclusion there: no thanks, absolutely no thanks, to any medical treatment where there is any shield from liability.

Zulu Foxtrot Golf
Zulu Foxtrot Golf
  falconflight
August 12, 2021 12:58 pm

Been refusing my oncology checkups since this shit started. I will not comply. Fuck, if I had followed the prognosis and advice from my oncologist 18 years ago I would have been dead. Correlation is not causation, doc. Guess my prognosis and end result was better.

Think I will stick with being stubborn, aka following my research conclusions since they have been working out pretty well thus far in life, which is about 17 years more than his witchdoctor quack-ass gave me lol.

ZFG, out.

P.S. fuck your mask and eat a dick Fauci.

bug
bug
  Zulu Foxtrot Golf
August 13, 2021 10:12 pm

I was talking with a male nurse a few years ago, who strikes me as both intelligent and informed.

He said there was a study of oncologists, asking if they would use the treatment regimen they prescribe for themselves or their loved ones.

The majority answered NO.

Warren
Warren
August 11, 2021 6:41 pm

We will be saying goodbye to a lot of art history grads in the next few years.

Quiet Mike
Quiet Mike
August 11, 2021 6:45 pm

If by “most highly educated” you mean most f—–g common sense, then I agree.

Gerold
Gerold
August 11, 2021 8:46 pm

PJW – stop using the word “hesitant” (their word) when the correct word is REFUSAL. What part of ‘No’ don’t you understand?
And, BTW – most of the people I know are highly educated and they all got the genocide jab. Education does not equal intelligence.

Muscledawg (not to be known as Delusionaldawg)😉
Muscledawg (not to be known as Delusionaldawg)😉
  Gerold
August 12, 2021 2:21 am

Agreed! Some people are educated beyond their intelligence.

epsteins ghost
epsteins ghost
August 11, 2021 9:09 pm

Thats the best meme i have seen . Stick in my arm!!

Muscledawg (not to be known as Delusionaldawg)😉
Muscledawg (not to be known as Delusionaldawg)😉
August 12, 2021 2:30 am

Let’s see here: FEMA camps for the unvaxed…
https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-08-11-cdc-announces-covid-internment-camps-for-every-us-city-minimum-humanitarian-standards.html

Only after they take my gun from my cold dead hand!!

'Reality' Doug
'Reality' Doug
August 12, 2021 2:38 am

Confirmation on my proposition that base people have inborn, nonnegotiable mental function that cannot be modified, by education or propaganda. Self-possession is hard for those who learn but are not geniuses, accidental for those who can’t.

ReluctantWarrior
ReluctantWarrior
August 12, 2021 9:02 am

It might also be pointed out that most of our elected leaders know what is really going down. Most our high ranking officials will say they got the shot and they will have official proof of it but I assure you that they have taken a placebo all for show and are not actually taking the jab of death.