I wrote a short essay on how the much needed phenomenon of popular epidemiology that came out of the 70s has had cascading effects that has seriously hurt our COVID response.
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In short, when we lose faith in science and medicine and technology and think we can choose for our bodies better than they, what are the consequences? Especially when we should be questioning how science, medicine, and technology are created.
When you have Black Americans not wanting the vaccine because they know that racist scientists and doctors have created racist scientific and medicinal practices and you have scientists putting chemicals on the market without even investigating human health effects, well?
In other words, this whole debacle combining often purportedly liberal anti-vaxxers and conservative COVID deniers, it's a result of the loss of trust in science, technology, and medicine and much of the fault is on scientists, techbros, and doctors.
This can be true even if both the anti-vaxxes and COVID deniers are basically idiots.
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