The first 2 minutes can be safely skipped. Actually the whole thing would probably have been better as a short webpage rather than a video, but never mind.
Basically, the brain doesn't update every idea automatically when new information is presented. Even when you abandon one belief, other ideas that it spawned still hang around even though the original basis for them has gone. Which explains quite a lot - though by no means all - about the anti-vaccines movement.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFv5DvrLDCg&feature=share
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It's getting so I dislike watching talking heads. Afterwards, I think it would have taken me half as long to read. (Not to mention the music people feel obliged to tack on.)
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