Public sentiment is what dictates how effective public policies will be. People will only agree to things, like getting a vaccine, if they hear it from someone

Public sentiment is what dictates how effective public policies will be. People will only agree to things, like getting a vaccine, if they hear it from someone they trust. Ignoring what the public believes, instead of educating and acknowledging concerns, is how you create the current strong anti-science sentiment across the globe. Vaccine hesitancy isn't isolated to USA, it's not even isolated to developed countries. If the government makes guidelines about sailing based on the framework that the world is flat, but everyone believes the world is round, people won't follow them. Most people don't see scientific evidence in a unattached objective way or even look for boths sides. Most people don't make value judgments based on what's scientific.