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Except it has nothing to do with the medical industry being shady or not. The big recent hullaballoo started because Andrew Wakefield lied to everyone. But that largely only affected the crunchy New Age mom types at the time.
The big explosion of right wing idiots being anti-vaxxers simply has to do with Republican politicians and Fox News repeatedly claiming all scientists and experts on topics are lying (to make money somehow, despite that money never materializing). They started making such anti-science claims with climate change and just expanded it to everything else.
Fox News: "THE VACCINE IS A SCAM! VACCINES DONT WORK!"
Also Fox News: You can not enter this building unless your are vaccinated.
And their hosts saying the vaccine is evil and will kill you, while all of them are fully vaccinated. I've even seen some of the hosts say they aren't vaccinated when discussing the topic, despite knowing they 100% are because Fox requires it.
What I'm trying to say is that if the medical industry wasn't filled with liars to begin with then there wouldn't be as big of an issue.
If you are already untrustworthy to begin with it's going to be really easy to convince someone that you did something else wrong.
I could very easily convince many people that Andrew Tate said that a woman should never be a CEO of a company because it sounds like something he would say and he already says plenty of other sexist shit.