Why would they? There is plenty of proof of safety, they just ignore that. They don’t actually have the ability to understand what questions to be asking, what

Why would they? There is plenty of proof of safety, they just ignore that. They don’t actually have the ability to understand what questions to be asking, what good study design looks like, how to interpret results, what statistics matter, the background of knowledge used to interpret any results, etc. Which is fine because few do, and the best at it are already hired into the right roles. Those are the opinions one should use as a proxy, not because they’re perfect and never make a mistake, but because the ordinary person would be spectacularly worse at it. Yet they “do research” which means just let confirmation bias run wild completely ungrounded. Let’s say they funded such a study and it came back with “the mainstream” answer which isn’t what they want.. you think they’d change their mind? I had read that flat earthers have tried to do similar things, each time getting the “wrong answer,” so they explain it away incorrectly. It’s very sad because all of this “destroy institutions, destroy science, destroy XYZ” is rooted in extreme greed for one particular thing (eg less taxes for the Koch brothers) and it ends up taking all of society out with it. It’s very easy to be against something, particularly when you don’t understand it.