If you knew nothing about vaccines, but you knew that homeopathy was hooey, and someone told you about vaccines, you might consider them “nearby” to homeopathy — combating a disease by administering a tiny amount of a disease-causing agent — and thus dismiss them as hooey.
(Also, just so ya know — “hooey” is Russian for “cock”, pretty much.)
If you knew nothing about vaccines, but you knew that homeopathy was hooey, and someone told you about vaccines, you might consider them “nearby” to homeopathy — combating a disease by administering a tiny amount of a disease-causing agent — and thus dismiss them as hooey.
(Also, just so ya know — “hooey” is Russian for “cock”, pretty much.)