For anti-science movements, such as the anti-vaccine movement, conspiracy theories are lifeblood. In fact, many of these movements would not survive if it were not for their unique kind of science fiction so implausible it would make Philip K. Dick blush. The anti-vaccine movement survives on several of these conspiracy theories, most of them so far-fetched that the majority of reasonably intelligent parents who read about them can dismiss them out of hand.
