It may manifest itself in more idiosyncratic ways, such as a commitment to faith healing or “natural” and “alternative” medicine. This distrust is not related in any particular way to the COVID-19 pandemic and can be readily demonstrated in the common neglect of annual physicals or flu vaccinations. It is an unfortunate fact that there has always been a substantial minority of Americans that simply distrust medicine in general.
When asked about the controversy, White House press secretary Jen Psaki noted the disclaimer was “a positive step, but we want every platform to continue doing more to call out misinformation and disinformation while also uplifting accurate information.”Īll this criticism may be warranted however, there is an unexamined assumption behind much of it that warrants closer scrutiny: Vaccine hesitancy, as well as distrust of the medical and scientific consensus, is itself the product of misinformation and disinformation. This has not satisfied critics, including the White House. Spotify has since committed to adding disclaimers to any content distributed about COVID-19 that may contradict that consensus but has otherwise stood by Rogan. Malone is an American physician and biochemist who performed early research on mRNA technology and whose views on COVID-19 vaccines and treatments are out of the mainstream scientific and medical consensus.
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