No it's poor education and messaging about how science and medicine works, "Trust the science" as if it's a concrete monolith at the same time as saying "the science is always changing" is cognitively dissident.
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For a while I used to listen to lectures from the beginning just to see how quickly knowledge evolved
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This seems obvious to me, a layperson, but apparently it’s complicated. Very complicated.
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That's science. It's self-correcting and constantly evolving as we learn more. To believe in the process, however, you have to be okay with that. When people dig their heels in, as alt-med practitioners and antivaxxers do, they show themselves to be close-minded and irrational.
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Ivermectin.
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I would say it's a combination of mostly willful ignorance (almost none of these people would be acting differently if the experts had everything correct from the start) with a bit of how a large part of the population doesn't understand scientific methodology.
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A lot of the time, it is the inability of a brain to understand complicated information. This is why not everybody can be a scientist in real life (though many play it on social and other media). Being a scientist starts from Elementary School, not from when you searched Google!
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I think it’s a combination of that and utter desperation to latch onto some kind of “gotcha”. They want it all to be a lie and will spin up any change in stance into being a deliberate fraud.
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It’s a scathing indictment of the educational system.
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