If, on the other hand, you are lied to regularly, and you are promised jobs and tax breaks and they don’t materialize, then I don’t find it surprising that some people don’t trust vaccines.
Kind of unrelated to this article, or rather, one of many tangents that can diverge from the topic, but I actually really like this idea… I don’t think I ever considered this perspective when thinking about “applied epistemology”, that some people’s place in society might make them pre-disposed to low levels of trust, not because of the environment, but rather because of how often “society” itself lies to them (either via things like politicians making promises of jobs or sugar-oil bars making promises of losing weight… and other obvious falsehoods that people end up not being immunized to in their upbringing)
Kind of unrelated to this article, or rather, one of many tangents that can diverge from the topic, but I actually really like this idea… I don’t think I ever considered this perspective when thinking about “applied epistemology”, that some people’s place in society might make them pre-disposed to low levels of trust, not because of the environment, but rather because of how often “society” itself lies to them (either via things like politicians making promises of jobs or sugar-oil bars making promises of losing weight… and other obvious falsehoods that people end up not being immunized to in their upbringing)
Or their immunization against these falsehoods being exactly what causes the problem.