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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m ok with RFK because I’m so tired of the arrogance of medical professionals telling me what to take, requiring doctors visits, etc. Stop telling me to not do ADHD or weight loss drugs because it’s weak. If there’s a medical reason to not do them, great. But many doctors are so judgmental. [/quote]

Goddamn those scientists and doctors who know more about science and medicine than me!  The Google and WebMD told me about how to treat my condition, therefore I know more than them. [/quote]

Yes, stick it to all those “experts”[/quote]

Experts are still people at the end of the day. They have biases, blindspots, and many are not nearly as intelligent as you might hope. Many are simply closed off to new information, hence the quote: "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it ..."

Then you have to factor in institutional capture and self interest...

Experts haven't exactly been covering themselves in glory of late. Why should we defer to them when it’s so easy to poke holes in their orthodoxy? [/quote]
Experts have been doing just fine. The frequency of people disagreeing with them on the basis of no evidence has increased, though. This is because a certain person repeatedly sought to benefit himself politically by telling everyone not to trust those experts.

Trump told people to ignore all COVID safety measures so he wouldn’t be stuck with a bad economy in October 2020. Now his voters think they shouldn’t trust the vaccines that make you safer from COVID. It’s that simple.

The reason you all think ivermectin is a miracle cure for COVID is, again, because Trump wanted a way to keep people from staying inside so the economy didn’t sputter. Now you all take horse dewormer for the disease you also claim isn’t a big deal but was created by the Chinese military and Anthony Fauci.

But it’s the experts’ fault you don’t trust basic science.[/quote]

Let's keep in mind that during Covid we shut down schools, churches, parks and gyms but kept liquor stores open on the recommendations of experts. That's just the tip of the iceberg of Covid absurdities from the experts btw. [/quote]
So you have nothing to refute the argument that Donald Trump purposefully sowed mistrust of public health expertise for political gain.[/quote]

Ever heard of Great Barrington declaration?  These were scientists and researchers and leaders in the field as well, they just happened to disagree with the mainstream narrative on Covid measures.  It's not Trump magically sowing discord in your imagined universe where every expert or educated person in the field unanimously agreed with the "science" and especially "changing science" to focus more on social engineering than on actual mitigation and treatments of whatever was going on. [/quote]

Haha, you are cuckoo and so was the "Great Barrington Declaration".

[i]"After gaining some publicity, this strategy was strongly denounced by many in the scientific community. While it supposedly received 8,000 signatures from public health experts and doctors, news outlets later revealed that some of those signatures were fake.

The declaration was supported by the American Institute for Economic Research, a libertarian, free-market think tank headquartered in western Massachusetts, known for its attacks on climate change."[/i]

Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD - one of the three people behind the declaration:
Bhattacharya is a former research fellow at the Hoover Institution, a conservative think tank at Stanford where Scott Atlas, MD, of the White House coronavirus task force, was (and still is) a senior research fellow.

So, yes, it was heavily conservative/right-wing influenced and they took it to the White House (Trump) and the White House endorsed it.

Come on, now.
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