I see a lot of people puzzled by the fact that those who distrust the Covid vaccines are simultaneously enthusiastic about evidence-less "treatments" like HCQ or ivermectin, and coming up with convoluted theories to explain their possible thought process... but it's really simple
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It's *not* about: - What the CDC or FDA says - What the government says - What specific politicians say (though if a politician's statements are part of someone's information diet, then that will have an impact) - Nostalgia towards the "good old days" of medical treatments
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No need to invoke far-fetched psychological, cultural, or political theories. There are info ecosystems where vaccines are constantly decried as evil, while the miracle cure of the day is getting the spotlight. People who read this stuff every day believe it. How could they not?
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And by the way, there's nothing organic about it. They didn't come up with these ideas themselves. They're not actively organizing disinformation campaigns -- they just unwittingly participate in them.
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If you want to fix it, you need to go after those who are engineering the disinformation campaigns (sometimes for profit, sometimes just as a way to sow chaos) as well as their enablers.
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I think there's also some impulsive contrarianism, i.e. mistrusting the cdc so hard that they will believe literally the opposite of what they say.
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What puzzled me though was that Kary Mullis himself said that PCR can't diagnose and Dr. Robert Malone spoke against mRNA jabs.
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Maybe so, but the good thing about science is that we rely on the data, instead of authorities, no matter how respected
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Sad but true. From the begging people should understand that the internet is just other people talking. That’s what I was told when I was first exploiting the internet and that was in the AOL days. Maybe I was just lucky to have good people around me.
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Yeah, a lot of the sources of this crazy, clickbait-y medical info profit from it. A lot.
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