• brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    They also think they know better than medical professionals.

    Bingo.

    I mean, people have always been this way to some extent…

    But I think a combination of institutional skepticism and the ‘I found this on Facebook!’ phenomenon (or TV, or podcasts, anything) lead a ton of the public to think they know better instead of just nodding along to what some dedicated professional say, compared to decades past.