Anti-vaxxers: Mentally Ill Victimhood Conspiracists (References in Description)
Channel: Sam Vaknin's Musings
Date: 2021-08-30

Unlike anti-vaxxing, vaccine hesitancy is legitimate but beware: information is not knowledge, critical thinking and misinformation, research is not hoarding. Virulent confluence of conspiracy theories and victimhood movements.

Conspiracy theorists such as anti-vaxxers are mentally ill: conspiracism and pareidolia, paranoid ideation, anxiety, depression, Delusionality and impaired reality testing, grandiosity and anti-intellectualism (truthiness, anti-expertise, malignant egalitarianism, sacred body), contumacious defiance. 

Fear to speak out against anti-vaxxers: political correctness/woke, hijacking of activism by narcissists and psychopaths.

Vaccination Primer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0EC_zgrjZY

Vaccine Defiance is Psychopathic, Narcissistic, Paranoid, Intellectually Challenged https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slV8u-9vYfs

References

1. The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories by Karen M. Douglas, Robbie M. Sutton, and Aleksandra Cichocka, Current Directions in Psychological Science, December 2017

2. Paranoid Ideation Without Psychosis Is Associated With Depression, Anxiety, and Suicide Attempts in General Population
Na, Eun Jin MD; Choi, Kwan Woo MD; Hong, Jin Pyo MD, PhD; Cho, Maeng Je MD, PhD‡; Fava, Maurizio MD; Mischoulon, David MD, PhD; Jeon, Hong Jin MD, PhD The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease: October 2019 - Volume 207 - Issue 10 - p 826-831

3. Lantian, A., Muller, D., Nurra, C., & Douglas, K. M. (2017). “I know things they don’t know!”: The role of need for uniqueness in belief in conspiracy theories. Social Psychology, 48(3), 160–173.

4. “Looking under the tinfoil hat: Clarifying the personological and psychopathological correlates of conspiracy beliefs”, S.M. Bowes and S. Lilienfeld, Journal of Personality,  August 2020

5. Belief in conspiracy theories: The predictive role of schizotypy, Machiavellianism, and primary psychopathy by Evita March, Jordan Springer, PLOS One, December 2019