She doesn’t believe in vaccines. She follows special diets that let her consume high fat, high cholesterol food. She doesn’t read, except for parts of books recommended to her on alternative medicine discussion boards. That would be fine, except for the condescending lectures. Somehow she considers herself intellectually superior to people who read a hundred books a year and hold advanced degrees. What she considers “evidence” is a handful of anecdotes. She says it’s important to listen to alter…