I don’t think I buy the author’s explanation, at least not entirely. There are a lot people who don’t respect expertise on things like vaccination. People have

I don’t think I buy the author’s explanation, at least not entirely. There are a lot people who don’t respect expertise on things like vaccination. People have a hard time accepting expertise when the claims of experts are probabilistic instead of definitive. (Because they will perceive experts as wrong when <50% probability things do happen or >50% things don’t happen. And they will see the experts as wishy washy in any case.) People have a hard time accepting expertise when the claims of experts are inconsistent with philosophical or political positions that are core to people’s identities.