By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-21 15:47:40 | Updated at 2024-11-24 10:18:04
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How Science Lost America’s Trust and Surrendered Health Policy to Skeptics
MSN ^ | 11/20/24 | Liz Essley Whyte
Posted on 11/21/2024 7:38:26 AM PST by Uncle Miltie
The rise of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from fringe figure to the prospective head of U.S. health policy was fueled by skepticism and distrust of the medical establishment—views that went viral in the Covid-19 pandemic.
People once dismissed for their disbelief in conventional medicine are now celebrating a new champion in Washington. Scientists, meanwhile, are trying to figure how they could have managed the pandemic without setting off a populist movement they say threatens longstanding public-health measures.
Lingering resentment over pandemic restrictions helped Kennedy and his “Make America Healthy Again” campaign draw people from the left and the right, voters who worried about the contamination of food, water and medicine. Many of them shared doubts about vaccines and felt their concerns were ignored by experts or regarded as ignorant.
Kennedy merged a crowd of Covid-era skeptics with people who long distrusted mainstream medicine and food conglomerates. Together, they helped return Donald Trump to the White House. With the president-elect’s selection of Kennedy to head the Department of Health and Human Services, the medical establishment is bracing for an overhaul of U.S. health policy.
Health authorities who beat the pandemic worry about losing more trust from the people they worked to save. Doctors, scientists and public-health officials are asking themselves how they can win it back. Among their postelection revelations: Don’t underestimate or talk down to those without a medical degree.
Here's Why Vaccine Hesitancy Is A Growing Problem Officials fear that Kennedy will promote unproven remedies, appoint vaccine skeptics to immunization-advisory committees and hamper the government’s infectious-disease detectives in a future pandemic.
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1 posted on 11/21/2024 7:38:26 AM PST by Uncle Miltie
To: Uncle Miltie
Here’s my Letter to the Editor:
“Scientists” Admit Lying
In “How Science Lost America’s Trust”, (WSJ, Thursday, November 21, Page A1), scientists admit lying to Americans that the Covid -19 vaccine was “safe and effective.” Carefully read the following paragraph:
“At first, officials said vaccines would prevent transmission or infection. Later, they learned that the shots instead cut the risk for hospitalization or death.”
This means they did not know in advance whether the vaccine would effectively prevent infection. But they lied and told you it was effective.
They also did not know in advance what the subsequent effects were going to be. Happily, for them and us, they accidentally later learned the “the shots cut the risk of hospitalization or death”. They had no idea what the long-term effects would be, because there was no long-term testing as usually required for a new vaccine. For example, they had no idea that death by myocarditis was a possible effect. But they lied and told you it was safe.
Indeed, they still have no idea what the long-term effects are going to be on the billions of people vaccinated. Y’all are just guinea pigs to the scientists.
Scientists did not know the vaccine was ineffective or whether it was safe in the long term. Yet they lied and chanted “safe and effective.” Now they wonder why “Science is losing its place as source of truth.”
Thanks,
2 posted on 11/21/2024 7:39:58 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (NOT TIRED OF WINNING!)
To: Uncle Miltie
Easy, they lied repeatedly and push a transparent political agenda.
3 posted on 11/21/2024 7:40:57 AM PST by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
To: Uncle Miltie
I remain livid at the lies they told and destruction they caused.
They knew it, and lied. Trillions of dollars in damages should be sued out of those MFers.
4 posted on 11/21/2024 7:41:19 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (NOT TIRED OF WINNING!)
To: Uncle Miltie
Original source is the Wall Street Journal, today page A1.
5 posted on 11/21/2024 7:42:33 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (NOT TIRED OF WINNING!)
To: Uncle Miltie
kennedy
the most recognized and world known american family
fringe ?
bwa hahaha
urinalists, spit.
6 posted on 11/21/2024 7:42:44 AM PST by cuz1961 (Isaiah 53:3)
To: All
They lied and treated and treated a crisis as a cash and power grab.
Many weeks to go before Trump is in office. Sure they’re planning an other plague if not WW3 to stop him.
7 posted on 11/21/2024 7:43:48 AM PST by TigerClaws
To: Uncle Miltie
Shouldn’t all science be driven by skeptics?
8 posted on 11/21/2024 7:45:07 AM PST by Sirius Lee (Trump/Vance 2024 or GF)
To: Uncle Miltie
Propaganda headline. “Skeptics” = TRUTH oriented.
This is obviously an attempt to prop up their lying manipulations.
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