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It's almost like initially dismissing and censoring the lableak theory as a racist conspiracy has helped fuel all these other conspiracies. Conflicts of intere
by evv555 5y ago
It's almost like initially dismissing and censoring the lableak theory as a racist conspiracy has helped fuel all these other conspiracies. Conflicts of interests like these fuel distrust of authorities and vaccine hesitancy. It's self-inflicted
- kennywinker 5y agoMeh. You’re putting a lot of faith in people. More transparency sometimes helps dispel conspiracy theories - sometimes it just gives them more data to pour over to find “connections” in.
- evv555 5y agoI don't think so. Avoiding loss of trust is medical governance 101.[1] "The agency organised a fake hepatitis vaccination campaign in Abottabad, Pakistan, in a bid to obtain DNA from the children of Bin Laden, to confirm the presence of the family in a compound and sanction the rollout of a risky and extensive operation. Release of this information has had a disastrous effect on worldwide eradication of infectious diseases, especially polio." 1. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(14)60900-4/fulltext https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
- kennywinker 5y agoYes, absolutely - trust is key - but I don’t think that this was the moment where scientists and governments lost the trust of the people.
- evv555 5y agoIt's one of several major moments throughout the pandemic
- kennywinker 5y agoOh, i meant they’d lost people’s trust decades before the pandemic…