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If the people reading these meta-analyses spent equivalent time reading the meta-analyses for any of the three U.S. developed vaccines, maybe they could get an
by avidiax 5y ago
If the people reading these meta-analyses spent equivalent time reading the meta-analyses for any of the three U.S. developed vaccines, maybe they could get an actually effective treatment.
But these people are contrarian-first. They'd much rather delude themselves that self-administered nicotine enemas are proven effective by cargo cult science websites by anonymous "Q" types than believe anything served by a .gov domain.
- adminscoffee 5y agowhy don't more of these people trust the government? were they wrong or perceived that they were wronged in some way? seems like a public relations image nightmare tbh.
- Daishiman 5y agoBecause an entire branch of political ideology is built around the notion that the state cannot ever be possibly useful, and has worked for decades doing PR work to get people to believe this. Unfortunately, this turns into a self-fulfilling prophecy, since people running on this platform tend to be the worst kind of bureaucrats you could have.
- no-s 5y ago> an entire branch of political ideology is built around the notion that the state cannot ever be possibly useful, This of course is used to reject the reality that too much of the any sort of government can be very dangerous thing and it’s often difficult to see this until it’s too late - tyrants often rise to power propelled by popular appeal. Ergo grudging skepticism towards the expansion of government power is perfectly reasonable...