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Nearly half of Americans hold some form of vaccine skepticism, poll finds
(www.independent.co.uk)
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Another way of putting it:I trust Science, but I do not trust that the for-profit pharmaceutical industries have the best interests of public health as their priority. In fact, their managers have fiduciary duty to their shareholders to increase value.
I trust vaccines in general, but its hard to trust these companies. Insulin is another great example- the inventor sold the patent for $1 purposefully to make it affordable for everyone, and in almost every country in the world it is cheap and abundant. In the US, these pharmaceutical companies hiked the prices up to hundreds of dollars per month until the Inflation Reduction Act set price caps starting in 2023 (as an aside: another perfect example KF how dumb people who claim BoThSiDeS are the same in US politics are)
Or look at the opiod crisis. Look at the banning and continued restriction of cannabis.