Humans, all humans, are prideful. What you are talking about is admitting that the job they have been doing for years and is their best hope of a decent standar

Humans, all humans, are prideful. What you are talking about is admitting that the job they have been doing for years and is their best hope of a decent standard of living is literally killing them. That the red meat beliefs they are fed about the evils of government regulation built on the threats of a loss of that income. On top of that you pile evidence about one thing. Sure it's true but this isn't about a single fact or outcome or causality, it's about conceptual change[0] which is about changing one or more of the schema that frame how we see the world. That is significantly harder and a lot of studies show that evidence contrary to a belief not only is ineffective at creating it, it can reinforce it. long story short...the attitudes and reactions have very little to do with the chain of evidence related to disease. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptual_change https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptual_change