For Andrew Wakefield it was started because this lawyer (alongside a then tiny group of anti-vaxxers) thought a class action lawsuit against vaccines would be lucrative and so he paid a doctor to find a correlation between vaccines and autismÂ
Couldn't they have picked Tylenol? We love grifters in this country. If you said the common cold could be cured by waterboarding, but call it forceful sinus and laryngeal irrigation, and people would buy it up in droves because it is a simple solution to a problem we are told is more complicated than being congested with mucus. They don't want complicity, they want everything to be simple so that the solutions are comprehendible to them. Not every solution is simple, and that fact is the thing they hate most.
And unfortunately there have been some things that are complex and society picked the wrong thing to back. Like phenylephrine in cold medicine being found to not do anything. We didn't pick the wrong thing because it is ultimately a simple solution. But people see that as evidence that things are complicated when they don't need to be. But a simple solution isn't the more likely solution just because it is apparent.
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u/MacRoach86 Jan 31 '25
Yep and then moved to America.