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Why people should trust pharma companies considering all the scandals and dick moves? I think we just lost patience and antivaxxers are kinda over-reacting. Thi

Why people should trust pharma companies considering all the scandals and dick moves? I think we just lost patience and antivaxxers are kinda over-reacting. This is not a problem with misinformation, it's a problem with trust. Patients are always disinformed and act when disinformed wheter they choose to vaccinate or not. Creating and mantaining trust therefore is the main issue. Edit: gonna specify that I'm in favor of vaccines otherwise some won't read the message and think this is an anti-vaxx post

JumpCrisscross 8y ago
> Why people should trust pharma companies considering all the scandals and dick moves? We shouldn’t! We should trust a medicine once they’ve published peer-reviewed papers, cleared multiple national efficiency and safety clinical trial standards, been universally recognised by medical professionals as a prudent personal and publish health measure and can look back on decades of evidence that pretty much points one way. When parents can’t weigh that evidence against some hocus pocus sense of unease, they should be liable for the costs of their decisions.
- sarcasmOrTears 8y ago
  People don't have the tools or the time to understand all this stuff. It's all about trust, good reputation. The only way governments and pharmas have been able to deal with loss of reputation is by trying to ridicule worried people, or persecuting them for a choice. Of course this is only making things worse.
  - JumpCrisscross 8y ago
    > People don't have the tools or the time to understand all this stuff Which is why we delegate that trust to experts. There are many such experts. Take your pick among your government, other governments, pharmaceutical companies, your doctor, anyone else’s doctor, immunologists, or any scientist with domain expertise. They all come to the same consensus. What doesn’t make sense is distrusting all of them while trusting Internet numpties peddling supplements.
    - sarcasmOrTears 8y ago
      Exactly, that's the point. For many reasons these experts are losing their good reputation, that should be the main concern. If they get a good rep again, less and less people are gonna listen to misinformations

JumpCrisscross 8y ago

> Why people should trust pharma companies considering all the scandals and dick moves? We shouldn’t! We should trust a medicine once they’ve published peer-reviewed papers, cleared multiple national efficiency and safety clinical trial standards, been universally recognised by medical professionals as a prudent personal and publish health measure and can look back on decades of evidence that pretty much points one way. When parents can’t weigh that evidence against some hocus pocus sense of unease, they should be liable for the costs of their decisions.

sarcasmOrTears 8y ago
People don't have the tools or the time to understand all this stuff. It's all about trust, good reputation. The only way governments and pharmas have been able to deal with loss of reputation is by trying to ridicule worried people, or persecuting them for a choice. Of course this is only making things worse.
- JumpCrisscross 8y ago
  > People don't have the tools or the time to understand all this stuff Which is why we delegate that trust to experts. There are many such experts. Take your pick among your government, other governments, pharmaceutical companies, your doctor, anyone else’s doctor, immunologists, or any scientist with domain expertise. They all come to the same consensus. What doesn’t make sense is distrusting all of them while trusting Internet numpties peddling supplements.
  - sarcasmOrTears 8y ago
    Exactly, that's the point. For many reasons these experts are losing their good reputation, that should be the main concern. If they get a good rep again, less and less people are gonna listen to misinformations