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25. I think it comes down to "people they trust", and "people they don't". And they've listened to talk radio for so long,

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and watched Fox News, that "the establishment", meaning in this case real medical researchers and doctors, and bureaucrats who support them, are "don't trust" - the "don't trust the government (especially its 'experts' )" line has been pushed at them since the John Birch Society and Goldwater, I guess, and got a big boost from Reagan. And they trust anyone with smart patter who also opposes regulated medicine (proper research doesn't come with smart patter, of course - scientists let the data do the talking, and are rarely that way inclined anyway, and the same goes for bureaucrats).

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