Only 39% of people in poll said that the science on vaccines ‘is clear and it is damaging to question it’
Nearly half of Americans are somewhat skeptical of vaccines, a new poll has found.
Some 46% of U.S. adults who responded to a Public First poll by Politico in March agreed that “facts on vaccines are still up for debate and it is damaging to enforce their uptake.”
In contrast, only 39% said that the science on vaccines “is clear and it is damaging to question it.”
The results of the survey are in line with the views of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime vaccine skeptic and founder of the Republican “Make America Healthy Again” movement.
Another way of putting it:I trust Science, but I do not trust that the for-profit pharmaceutical industries have the best interests of public health as their priority. In fact, their managers have fiduciary duty to their shareholders to increase value.
I trust vaccines in general, but its hard to trust these companies. Insulin is another great example- the inventor sold the patent for $1 purposefully to make it affordable for everyone, and in almost every country in the world it is cheap and abundant. In the US, these pharmaceutical companies hiked the prices up to hundreds of dollars per month until the Inflation Reduction Act set price caps starting in 2023 (as an aside: another perfect example KF how dumb people who claim BoThSiDeS are the same in US politics are)
Or look at the opiod crisis. Look at the banning and continued restriction of cannabis.