The more educated you are, the more anti-vax you'll be
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It's not just the more educated. It's the less educated too. Somebody else misquoted this study earlier, or maybe it was another one like it. Anyway, it's not just PhDs. People with high school or less are more anti-vax too, so having more education isn't the reason, if having less education puts you in the same boat.
"The association between hesitancy and education level followed a U-shaped curve with the lowest hesitancy among those with a master’s degree ... and the highest hesitancy among those with a PhD or ≤high school education."
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.20.21260795v1.full.pdf
An army medic describing vaxx reactions in the US army described it best:
But that's not what OP said, right?
If the well-educated and the uneducated think the same way then having an education isn't the reason.