I'm really referring to human nature within the intellectual institutions where findings such as Mills' discoveries can be reasonably expected to be properly accessed. There is something about the dynamic of human nature within an institutional setting that can lead to dysfunctions that would not normally occur.
Some might call it a failure of the institutions, but it is both.
But regarding 'populist' opinions ; flat earth popularity reveals failures in our educational institutions among other things. Conspiracies do exist, just not flat earth ones. Vaccines? Why call it an anti-vax movement when probably most within the movement like the idea of vaccines when
they are proven to be safe. I've seen no such study for their safety, in the way they are actually administered. I'm not talking about safety for individual vaccines but safety of vaccines when multiple vaccines are administered at once.
Given the whistle blowers at CDC and near zero autism rates among children of paediatric doctors who don't vaccinate in the conventional way, yeah, we should be alarmed and fighting for answers in the present autism epidemic.
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