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How about the right-wing media which fostered scientific ignorance because making money and supporting a fascist political party was more important to them than the good of the country? These MAGA dipshits didn't stop getting vaccinated until they were told to.
How about Christianity which advocated for blind faith and dismissed knowledge as worthless since the first century?
Where do you think the right wing got the idea that listening to authoritarian guidance and conforming to group beliefs trumps scientific knowledge and learning?
In general, it's alarming how often some form of 'spiritualism' whether Christian or some Western strain of Eastern branded BS goes hand in hand with people saying they don't believe in vaccines.
This isn't simply scientific illiteracy, it's spiritual literacy as a competing factor encouraging belief in magical thinking over observation and testing.
Which at this point has expanded out to weird crap like thinking the pyramids were built by aliens or that Jesus was secretly talking about tongue yoga to stimulate the pituitary gland to all sorts of the most bizarre shit I've ever heard.
People have thrown away any grip on reality and along with it suddenly become insufferable know-it-not-at-alls that just don't shut up about criticizing actual knowledge while promoting insanity.